Sun, Jan 12, 2025 | Anand S - Things I Learned

justhtml is a fast enough pure Python fully HTML5 compliant library. For a faster, mostly compliant solution, html5-parser with lxml works. #html

Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 is a framework for measuring developer productivity. It encapsulates other frameworks like DORA, SPACE, and DevEx. #best-practices #dev #markdown

Cloudflare tunnel is like ngrok but more permanent. It's a bit more complex, too. But given CloudFlare's liberal free tier, it's a good, viable option for long-term local hosting. #cloud #hosting #networking

John Wheeler: "We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." A great way to understand how ignorance actually grows as you learn more.

CLIProxyAPI seems a good way to allow any CLI coding agent (Codex, Claude Code, etc.) to work with any provider (e.g. Gemini, OpenRouter, etc.) The documentation needs a few more examples, but it's usable. #ai-coding #code-agents #github #prompt-engineering
- mise x github:router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI -- cli-proxy-api starts a local server that proxies requests.
- Create a config.yaml, update the keys, and configure your coding agent, e.g. Codex to use it.
- It's also a good way to see what prompts are being sent by the various harnesses.

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code? A delightful exploration of how Claude 3.5 Sonnet keeps optimizing and adding features to improve code. My takeaway: repeatedly applying a prompt gives us interesting new directions to explore. #ai-coding #code-agents #llm-ops #markdown #optimization #prompt-engineering #write

smolagents is a new agents library from HuggingFace. It seems simple enough to use. #code-agents #huggingface

Switchboard-1 is a labelled audio corpus with ~260 hours of speech. It has ~2,400 calls among 500+ speakers in the US. #speech-to-text #voice-cloning #5478

Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez - Redis) finds DeepSeek v3 comparable with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. YouTube #search
- He also passed a paper and his code to compare them. A useful prompt. YouTube