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I want to see the claw

https://veekaybee.github.io/2025/10/20/i-want-to-see-the-claw/

Published: October 20, 2025 00:00

I respect quality software and the people who write it. And, I’ve invested years of my life in working on becoming one of these people (even if the journey has been long and hard and has involved lots of YAML). I have seen and used code written by people…

Walking around the app

https://veekaybee.github.io/2025/09/09/walking-around-the-app/

Published: September 9, 2025 00:00

There is a very vigorous debate happening online right now around what shape evaluation for LLM-based products should take. I don’t want to rehash all of it, other than saying that if you are building any applications with with non-deterministic components…

How big are our embeddings now and why?

https://veekaybee.github.io/2025/09/01/how-big-are-our-embeddings-now-and-why/

Published: September 1, 2025 00:00

A few years ago, I wrote a paper on embeddings. At the time, I wrote that 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry, and that adding more dimensions during training would create diminishing returns for the effectiveness of your downstream…

Enabling Hugo static site search with Lunr.js

https://veekaybee.github.io/2025/08/08/enabling-hugo-static-site-search-with-lunr.js/

Published: August 8, 2025 00:00

There comes a time in every woman’s life when she only wants one thing: for her mininmal static site to finally have some of the same features that dynamic blogging platforms do, namely search. So now I’ve implemented search on this blog, you should see it…

My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/07/16/my-favorite-use-case-for-ai-is-writing-logs/

Published: July 16, 2025 00:00

One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out, unintrusive, and makes me a more effective developer. Most importantly, it still keeps me mostly in…

20 years of YC

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/20-years-of-yc/

Published: March 17, 2025 00:00

I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger, but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don’t remember how I heard about it. It was…

You can just hack on ATProto

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/01/23/you-can-just-hack-on-atproto/

Published: January 23, 2025 00:00

Icon by iconixar Since I signed up for Bluesky last year, I’ve been wanting to make something using the AT Protocol that the platform is built on top of. I finally had a chance to do it over the holiday break and built GitFeed, a small Go app that filters…

How FastAPI path operations work

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/01/14/how-fastapi-path-operations-work/

Published: January 14, 2025 00:00

If you’re building a new Python web app these days, there’s a good chance you’re using FastAPI. There are a lot of features that make FastAPI easy to get started with. There are also a lot of nuances that take a while to understand. One feature I’ve been…

Everything I did in 2024

https://vickiboykis.com/2025/01/03/everything-i-did-in-2024/

Published: January 3, 2025 00:00

I want to get back into writing more regularly this year, so in light of that, here’s my last year in review. Evaluating LLMs Like many of us in tech, I spent a large portion of 2024 thinking about and working with LLMs, but I was lucky enough to do it for…

Favorite Books of 2024

https://vickiboykis.com/essays/2024-12-31-favorite-books/

Published: January 1, 2025 00:00

Favorite books of 2024 Like last year, I spent a fair amount of the year reading code and technical books. Every year I have this struggle. There is a lot going on in machine learning and engineering and I need to stay on top of it. Yet, I also need to…