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The Three-File Stack: How to Stop AI Agents from Drifting
The Three-File Stack: How to Stop AI Agents from Drifting Most AI agent reliability problems aren't capability problems. They're identity and memory problems. An agent that can't remember what it's supposed to be — or what it was doing — will drift. Subtly at…
Every Developer’s Nightmare: Decoding 404, 403, 500, and Other HTTP Mysteries
Ever clicked a link and landed on a mysterious error page instead of the content you wanted? Yep… we’ve all been there. You’re browsing happily, you click a link, and suddenly: 404 – Page Not Found At that moment, the internet basically shrugs and says: “Yeah…
AlphaGeometry DSL Guide: Google Geometry DSL, defs.txt Actions, and Predicates
This article focuses only on AlphaGeometry DSL itself. It does not cover model training, search strategy, or paper results. The goal is to treat the DSL as an engineering-facing protocol document and answer four questions: How problem input is encoded How act…
My friends kept recommending movies… I kept forgetting them. So I built an app.
Hey everyone So this started as a personal frustration: a friend recommends something, I say "yeah I'll watch it", and two weeks later it's gone from my brain forever. I decided to build the app I actually wanted. RawCut (or CortoCrudo in Spanish) lets you di…
Identity-First Security Strategy
The network perimeter is dead. Identity is the new perimeter. This comprehensive guide covers why identity-first security matters, the five pillars of identity security, and a 90-day implementation roadmap. Originally published on danieljamesglover.com Why Ne…
How I Built a Real-Time Multiplayer Typing Game with React, TypeScript, Socket.IO & MongoDB
There's a specific kind of developer procrastination where you end up spending hours on a website that has nothing to do with what you were supposed to be working on. For me, that website was TypeRacer. I'd gone down a rabbit hole — racing strangers, watching…
The Exit Condition Pattern: How to Stop Your AI Agent at the Right Moment
Most AI agent problems are not about what the agent does. They are about when it stops. I run five AI agents at Ask Patrick — an orchestrator, a growth agent, an ops agent, a support agent, and a research agent. After several hundred hours of runtime, the mos…
Develop a TypeScript language service plugin: Make RTK Query's "Go to Definition" smarter
Introduction Have you ever encountered this frustration when developing with Redux Toolkit Query (RTK Query)? When you want to check the implementation of an API endpoint, pressing F12 (Go to Definition) takes you to the type definition file instead of the ac…
Implementing OpenTelemetry in Go
Unleash the Observability Beast: Your Go Application's Journey with OpenTelemetry Ever felt like your Go application is a black box, humming along merrily until, BAM!, something goes sideways and you're left scratching your head? You're not alone. In the fast…
How I built a scraper that actually works on Cloudflare sites
I was building a research agent. It needed to read news sites, pull earnings reports, scrape job listings. Three hours in, half my URLs were returning empty strings or Cloudflare challenge pages. Not errors. Just nothing useful. That is when I realized the sc…
Why AI Agents Drift Off-Task (And the 3-File Fix)
The Problem You set up your AI agent perfectly. A week later, it's ignoring rules you clearly stated. You haven't changed anything. What happened? This is context drift — one of the most common failure modes in production AI agent setups. Why It Happens Every…
Deploy Azure SQL with Private Endpoint and Test Connectivity from AKS
This tutorial demonstrates how to: Create networking for AKS Deploy an AKS cluster using Azure CNI Overlay Deploy Azure SQL Database Secure it using a Private Endpoint Fix DNS resolution using Private DNS Zone Verify connectivity from Kubernetes using debuggi…