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Prometheus 3.0: OTLP, Native Histograms, UTF-8 & New UI

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Prometheus 3.0: OTLP, Native Histograms, UTF-8 & New UI

Prometheus 3.0 is the first major release in seven years — a redesigned UI, native OTLP ingestion, Remote Write 2.0, UTF-8 names, and the 2.x upgrade traps to plan for.

July 20269 min read

Run Local LLMs with Ollama: Models, API, and Modelfile

How I run open-weight LLMs like Llama, Gemma, and Qwen on my own machine with Ollama — one command to pull a model, an OpenAI-compatible API, and total privacy.

Tailwind CSS v4: Oxide Engine and CSS-First Config

Web Dev

July 20269 min read

Tailwind CSS v4: Oxide Engine and CSS-First Config

Tailwind CSS v4 is a ground-up rewrite on the Rust Oxide engine: CSS-first theme config, automatic content detection, and builds up to 5x faster.

July 202610 min read

Vercel AI SDK 5 Guide: Type-Safe Chat, Tools & Agents

What actually changed in Vercel AI SDK 5 — the UIMessage vs ModelMessage split, agentic loop control, tool calling, streaming, and the new useChat.

React Compiler: Automatic Memoization Without useMemo

Web Dev

July 20269 min read

React Compiler: Automatic Memoization Without useMemo

React's build-time compiler now memoizes components and hooks for you. Here is what it does, how to wire it into Babel, Vite, and Next.js, and where it can still bite.

uv: The Fast Rust Python Package Manager Replacing pip

DevOps

July 20269 min read

uv: The Fast Rust Python Package Manager Replacing pip

Why I moved my Python projects to uv — the Rust-based package and project manager from Astral that is 10-100x faster than pip and folds pip, venv, pipx, poetry, and pyenv into one binary.

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