PhilipMat

Modern Mac SSDs typically endure about 3,000 erase-write cycles; monitor total data written with iostat or smartctl, keep 10–25% free, and avoid VM swap to extend lifespan..

Estimate LLM costs by entering input, cached, and output token counts and per‑million rates; includes model price comparisons and a GitHub source link..

A week-one playbook for auditing legacy Rails apps: interview stakeholders, inspect Gemfile/schema/routes, run security scans first, use SimpleCov zero-coverage as a fear map, and deliver a one-page t.

Learn how to automate VPN connections in DataGrip for Azure-hosted databases on macOS..

Discover how VCR.py can simplify and speed up your HTTP testing by recording and replaying HTTP interactions..

A GitHub Actions workflow that turns a GitHub issue into a TIL blog post using an LLM to fetch, summarize, and tag the content..

Learn how to create a self-updating GitHub profile README using GitHub Actions and a Python script..

Script of things I found useful to do before I start writing any code at all..

Replicating the Unix `touch` command in PowerShell.

How to make available a special folder that dynamically shows unread emails.

Making PUT and DELETE work with ExpressJS when submitting from HTML pages..

More lenient CSRF check for Django when posting from an HTTP page to an HTTPS one..

Templates for GoodNotes and other notes applications.

A quick way to create asymmetric sparkbars..

Keep Json.NET from going too deep on NHibernate proxies.

An new approach to building web apps that has been around for quite some times..

A brief look at .Net instance and class inheritance through the lens of DataBinding..

A comparison of performance in object retrieval of six .Net Dependency Injection containers.

Enabling completion for Python in interactive mode..

A comparison of Jekyll and Hyde when considering a static website generator..