A practical look at using tower as the middleware layer for Rust AWS Lambda functions, with examples that build up to a DynamoDB-backed per-IP rate limiter. It covers Service, Layer, stack ordering, short-circuiting, boxed async futures, and testing middleware without deploying a Lambda. Comments
The first article on this blog explained how it was built in 30 minutes with Claude Code. Naturally, a blog needs comments. Same constraints: no database, no external dependencies, no Disqus tracking visitors. Just PHP + JSON files. Built in one session with Claude Code — the interesting part wasn't the code, it was the security audit that followed. A comment system without a database seems trivia
When building applications with large language models (LLMs), one of the most overlooked costs is how structured data is represented. Most systems use JSON. And JSON is inefficient for LLM input. KODA (Knowledge-Oriented Data Abstraction) is a schema-first data format designed to reduce token usage when sending structured data to LLMs. It works by: Defining structure once (schema-first) Encoding v
Comments
A hands-on dev review focused on i18n, date/number formatting, and non-ASCII edge cases. Why I Tested TestSprite for Locale Handling Specifically Most AI testing tools get reviewed for their core functionality — does it find bugs, does it write good test code, does it integrate with CI/CD. Those reviews exist. What I couldn't find was a focused review on how TestSprite handles locale-specific edge
Many of us know the classics, such as: zombo.com (RIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com) https://www.penisland.net/ (its SFW, I promise!) crouton.net (this seems to be down? :( Heres how it looks like though https://protoweb.org/2024/01/28/crouton-net/ ) But what else is there? What are some of the silly fun sites you know about? It doesn't need to make sense. Just.. Fun. Whimsy.