Transcode from C to Golang: Claude vs Codex vs Gemini • 20 Sep 2025
TL;DR: I compared three AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI) for transcoding an existing audio-processing C program to Golang.
The clear winner in this case was OpenAI’s Codex. See the results on github.com/pforret/leqm-nrt.
Creating my first Jetbrains plugin with Junie and Kotlin • 19 Sep 2025
TL;DR: I created a Jetbrains plugin in Kotlin, a language I don’t master, with Jetbrains’ own Junie AI Agent.
It went quite easy, and now I have my first published plugin in the Jetbrains marketplace.
Source code: toolstud-io/LlmBrains
Detecting excessive SSD wear on Apple Silicon M1 machines • 22 Feb 2021
Some more professional users of the new M1 Macbooks are experiencing extremely high drive writes over relatively short time.
The most severe cases have “consumed” about 10-13% of the maximum warrantable TBW (Total Bytes Written) value of the SSDs (given their capacity & using values for equivalent market-available NVMe drives).
• Feb 17, 2021 linustechtips.com
Private repos on Laravel Forge: Spark and Mailcoach • 10 Dec 2020
I’m developing a new service and I’ve decided to go all-in on Laravel. Not only am I developing the application in Laravel, and using ready-made components like Laravel Spark (SaaS user management and payment) and Spatie Mailcoach (mailing server), I also deploy to DigitalOcean with Laravel Forge. At 12$/month (for the ‘Hobby’ plan), even if it saves me only 15 minutes of time every month, that’s already worth it.
Storing the SQL queries in the database • 31 Mar 2006
I want to outline something I developed something like 5 years ago, and that I was kind of happy with at the time: a way of saving all SQL queries inside the database itself. The reason for writing this is that it would really fit in with all the RubyOnRails and other programming frameworks that are created these days. If someone feels like creating a component/plug-in for it, that would be so nice…
Converge already! (Struggling with WLBS) • 19 May 2004
I hate when things don’t go my way. One server in our NLB (Network Load Balancing) cluster did not want to join the cluster anymore. When I issued a wlbs start, it tried for a couple of seconds to join the cluster, but then remained in ‘Converging’ state. A couple of times I saw an entry in the System Log " ... does not have the same number or type of port rules ...".