Documentation for software and life
OneBitWiser is a running engineering log.
Current areas of calibration
- AI Web Apps
- Hardware Experiments
Selected field reports
- Your Life is Context Engineering
“It depends” is the best adage, or at least generally speaking (depends). It’s often quoted sarcastically in tech jobs as a joke, but it’s just as often given as serious advice.…
- End-to-End Testing an AI Application with Playwright and GitHub Actions
LLMs are notoriously finicky. You can try to corral them into an API, fine-tune them, lower their temperature, select JSON mode, pray, but in the end you may still end up with a hallucination rate of 15-20%.…
- The Infinite Garden: The Importance of Community for Coders and Life
Overlooking a city and watching as thousands of colorful dots move along the sidewalk and down the road, maybe you imagined a garden. The coordination, fragility, and impressiveness of an urban ecosystem.…
- On the Edge of Innovation: The Web’s Evolution From Serverless to Edge Computing
Web developers have been enjoying a technological renaissance over the past couple of decades. The field of cloud computing began as a way to host web applications on a global scale and has since allowed developers to…
- A Guide to Getting Unstuck as a Developer
Every developer knows that deep, sinking feeling of being stuck. Being “blocked” can happen to a programmer at any moment, whether it’s a feature story, an elusive bug, or designing the architecture for an application.…
- The Bogotá Docs: A Guide for Devcon Attendees
I was thrilled when I found out such a large blockchain conference would be hosted in Bogotá, a city I’ve lived in for nearly half the year. Unfortunately for me, U.S.…
- Staying Safe as a Blockchain Dev: Safe Smart Contract and dApp Development for Beginners
The blockchain ecosystem boasts multibillion-dollar decentralized protocols, applications, and networks, and it’s never been easier to lose it all in an instant. At its core, blockchain development is risky.…
- Building a Serverless Stock Price Web App With Cloudflare Workers, Pages, Workers KV and Cron Triggers
Building a web app during college or a coding bootcamp, confronted with a dizzying array of programming jargon, developer tools, and uncertain integrations is overwhelming.…
- My 5-Step Approach to Problem Solving as a Junior Developer
I never loved the phrase “junior developer.” Junior evokes memories of little league baseball, a suboptimal grade level and perhaps even the esteemed Weenie Hut Jr’s (for the Gen Z crowd).…
| Date | Entry | Read |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-21 | Your Life is Context Engineering “It depends” is the best adage, or at least generally speaking (depends). It’s often quoted sarcastically in tech jobs as a joke, but it’s just as often given as serious advice.… | 4 min |
| 2024-08-09 | End-to-End Testing an AI Application with Playwright and GitHub Actions LLMs are notoriously finicky. You can try to corral them into an API, fine-tune them, lower their temperature, select JSON mode, pray, but in the end you may still end up with a hallucination rate of 15-20%.… | 10 min |
| 2023-06-29 | The Infinite Garden: The Importance of Community for Coders and Life Overlooking a city and watching as thousands of colorful dots move along the sidewalk and down the road, maybe you imagined a garden. The coordination, fragility, and impressiveness of an urban ecosystem.… | 4 min |
| 2022-09-06 | On the Edge of Innovation: The Web’s Evolution From Serverless to Edge Computing Web developers have been enjoying a technological renaissance over the past couple of decades. The field of cloud computing began as a way to host web applications on a global scale and has since allowed developers to… | 9 min |
| 2022-08-29 | A Guide to Getting Unstuck as a Developer Every developer knows that deep, sinking feeling of being stuck. Being “blocked” can happen to a programmer at any moment, whether it’s a feature story, an elusive bug, or designing the architecture for an application.… | 7 min |
| 2022-08-11 | The Bogotá Docs: A Guide for Devcon Attendees I was thrilled when I found out such a large blockchain conference would be hosted in Bogotá, a city I’ve lived in for nearly half the year. Unfortunately for me, U.S.… | 16 min |
| 2022-05-20 | Staying Safe as a Blockchain Dev: Safe Smart Contract and dApp Development for Beginners The blockchain ecosystem boasts multibillion-dollar decentralized protocols, applications, and networks, and it’s never been easier to lose it all in an instant. At its core, blockchain development is risky.… | 10 min |
| 2022-01-30 | Building a Serverless Stock Price Web App With Cloudflare Workers, Pages, Workers KV and Cron Triggers Building a web app during college or a coding bootcamp, confronted with a dizzying array of programming jargon, developer tools, and uncertain integrations is overwhelming.… | 13 min |
| 2021-10-20 | My 5-Step Approach to Problem Solving as a Junior Developer I never loved the phrase “junior developer.” Junior evokes memories of little league baseball, a suboptimal grade level and perhaps even the esteemed Weenie Hut Jr’s (for the Gen Z crowd).… | 5 min |