Nathan LeClaire

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Nathan LeClaire on software engineering, distributed systems, AI, and business. The article feed last published in July 2025.

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Prompt Engineering is Alive and Well in 2025 - Five Tips #AI #PromptEngineering #TechTips
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Jul 1, 2025
In Defense of Superbabies #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Business
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Apr 14, 2025
Emotional Recall: Strengthening Spaced Repetition with AI #AI #MachineLearning #EdTech
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Mar 30, 2025
Vibing Best Practices with Claude Code #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Coding
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Mar 10, 2025
Fine Tuning a Mystical Assistant with Llama 3 and Unsloth #AI #LLM #OpenSource
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Jun 24, 2024
Prompt Engineering to Grow Yourself a Nanoservice Garden #AI #SoftwareEngineering #PromptEngineering
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Jun 23, 2024
The Final Frontiers of AI: Chess, Physics, and the Tenacity of the Human Spirit #AI #Chess #Physics
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Jun 15, 2024
Perplexity Agents, Claude, and the Future of the Web #AI #Web3 #FutureTech
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Jun 14, 2024
Creating and Visualizing Embeddings with Ollama and ChatGPT #AI #Embeddings #DataScience
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Mar 11, 2024
Playing Around With Ollama for Local LLM #AI #LLM #Tech
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Mar 5, 2024
Do We Need a New Orchestration System for GPUs? #Gpu #Systems #Tech
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Apr 6, 2023
Startup Attempts and Failures, 2021 - 2023 #Startup #Business #Engineering
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Apr 5, 2023
Tokio/Rust dyn std::error::Error cannot be sent between threads safely #RustLang #Async #Programming
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Nov 6, 2021
Improving Observability and AIOps with Smarter Sampling #Observability #AIOps #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 27, 2021
Week of 7/12 Podcast Recap: Alex Ellis and Anamita Guha #Tech #AI #Podcast
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Jul 20, 2021
TCP Checks, Results, and Timing Out in Rust #Rust #Programming #Networking
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Jul 19, 2021
Visualizing User Acquisition as a Directed Acyclic Graph #DataScience #GraphTheory #BusinessStrategy
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May 11, 2021
I'm winding down my mailing list (and it's inspiring me to reboot the site) #Business #Community #Growth
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Mar 2, 2019
cURL with HTTP2 Support - A Minimal Alpine-based Docker Image #Docker #HTTP2 #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 11, 2016
On the Matter of Beautiful git Diffs #Git #SoftwareEngineering #DevTools
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Jun 28, 2016
YAML, HCL, TOML, and Other Fantastic Beasts #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #Config
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Jun 13, 2016
Using Golang 1.6 Templates #Go #Programming #Templates
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Feb 23, 2016
Seamless Docker Multihost Overlay Networking on DigitalOcean With Machine, Swarm, and Compose ft. RethinkDB #Docker #DevOps #CloudComputing
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Nov 17, 2015
Using curl and the UNIX socket to talk to the Docker API #Docker #APIs #DevOps
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Nov 12, 2015
Using Ansible with Docker Machine to Bootstrap Host Nodes #DevOps #Automation #Docker
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Nov 10, 2015
Interfaces and Composition for Effective Unit Testing in Golang #Golang #SoftwareEngineering #Testing
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Oct 10, 2015
Docker Machine 0.3.0 Sneak Preview: Transmogrify Existing Servers To Be Docker-ready and much, much, more #Docker #DevOps #Cloud
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Jun 2, 2015
Automating Docker Logging: ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Logspout #Docker #DevOps #Logging
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Apr 27, 2015
You're Not Using This Enough, Part One: Go Interfaces #GoLang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Mar 9, 2015
Shelled-out Commands In Golang #Golang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Dec 29, 2014
Migrating to Hugo From Octopress #Tech #Blogging #OpenSource
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Dec 22, 2014
The Dockerfile is not the source of truth for your image #Docker #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering
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Sep 29, 2014
Don't Be Scared of git rebase #Git #DevTools #Programming
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Sep 14, 2014
Bash Scripting and the Legend of the Hidden Bracket #Bash #Scripting #Programming
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Sep 7, 2014
Why codegangsta's cli package is the bomb, and you should use it #GoLang #CLI #DevTools
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Aug 31, 2014
Handling CTRL-C (interrupt signal) in Golang Programs #Golang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 24, 2014
Automagical Deploys from Docker Hub #Docker #DevOps #Automation
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Aug 17, 2014
Don't Get Bitten by Pointer vs Non-Pointer Method Receivers in Golang #Golang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 9, 2014
Write a Function Similar To Underscore.js's debounce, in Golang #Golang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Demystifying Golang's io.Reader and io.Writer Interfaces #GoLang #Programming #Interfaces
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