Eliminating cruft from the codebase
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
Be Useful.
Content & Code, with a little help from Generative AI.
Localisation from English to German, how difficult can it be? Spinning up a proof of concept with Contentful and Claude.
When films are structured like video games
Sometimes, a movie is just a movie. But when filmmakers take inspiration from another medium, the effect can be exhilarating.
The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.
Number crunching the Criterion Closet Picks
A prestigious cupboard of physical media. A cavalcade of filmmakers and actors. What patterns can we find between them?