9 posts tagged with "Tips"

Google just released Gemma 4 — a family of open-weight models with multimodal input, 256K context, native function calling, and a built-in "thinking mode". Here's everything you need to know, plus a step-by-step guide to running it on your own machine.

Paperclip is an open-source framework that lets you run a team of AI agents like a business — with an org chart, goals, budgets, governance, and a full audit trail. Here's what it is, how it works, and how to set it up.

Most developers learn to write better prompts. The engineers building production AI systems are doing something far more powerful — they're engineering the entire environment around the model.

Automate cloning, checking out, and pulling multiple Git repositories at once using simple bash scripts — plus auto-generating a Maven parent POM for Java projects.

A practical guide to Clean Architecture in Java — with real project structure, layer responsibilities, and a complete Spring Boot example that you can apply to production services.

A practical guide to Go's built-in fuzz testing — how it works, when to use it, and real examples that catch edge cases your regular unit tests would never find.

A practical guide to understanding JVM memory management and tuning garbage collection for better performance in production Java applications.

A clear explanation of the five SOLID principles with practical Java examples — the foundation of clean, maintainable, and scalable object-oriented design.

A quick checklist of essential steps I always follow after a fresh Ubuntu installation — from system updates and firewall setup to installing must-have developer tools.