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Auto-Tune Your LLM Judge

Measure the evaluator's variance, then rebuild its prompt from zero.

Auto-Tune Your LLM Judge
created 25 days ago
updated about 20 hours ago

Consulting

Have a hard technical problem worth solving well?

I work with teams on AI systems, TypeScript architecture, security reviews, and production rescue missions.

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Announcing ExploitHunter.app

An open-source security workbench that keeps scope, approvals, tools, and evidence in one project.

Announcing ExploitHunter.app
created about 2 months ago
updated about 20 hours ago
AI

Don't Fear the Model Router

Route to the best model with confidence.

Don't Fear the Model Router
created 2 months ago
updated about 20 hours ago
Security

Into the Breach

Reduce local-dev risk with containers, canaries, and boring limits

Into the Breach
created 4 months ago
updated 4 months ago
Code

Postgres Text Searching Guide 2026

The search tools already in your database, and when each one earns its keep.

Postgres Text Searching Guide 2026
created 4 months ago
updated 4 months ago

Senior JS/TS help

Stuck on a hard JavaScript or TypeScript problem?

I bring 18+ years of production JS/TS experience to architecture reviews, rescue work, and focused implementation sprints.

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Fight Evils with Evals!

Benchmarks measure benchmarks. Your system needs its own measures.

Fight Evils with Evals!
created 4 months ago
updated 4 months ago
Code

Semantic Vector Search and Other Topics to Win Friends and Lovers

The full search landscape: exact, fuzzy, semantic, hybrid — and when to layer all of them.

Semantic Vector Search and Other Topics to Win Friends and Lovers
created 4 months ago
updated 4 months ago
AI

It's Time for llm:// Connection Strings

Simplify Model & Provider Config with llm:// URLs

It's Time for llm:// Connection Strings
created 7 months ago
updated 2 months ago