Niklas Saers
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Spec-Driven AI Development

You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.

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February 10, 2005 • Photoblog

Instant Coffee

Instant Coffee

February 8, 2005 • Photoblog

My Valentine

I always fall for cellists. I love the sound of the cello. I love the shape of the cello. And look what the cello has to say on the subject. You'll notice that the last string is broken. The poor little thing, I felt like fixing it right away, but it wasn't mine and I'd probably make it worse

February 8, 2005 • Photoblog

50mm test

A good test subject for my mate's 50mm f/1.4 lens

February 7, 2005 • Photoblog

Table of cakes

Update: based on Straynjer's comment, here is a new version:
Table of Cakes

February 6, 2005 • Photoblog

Organ

Organ

February 4, 2005 • Photography

Crayons getting shot

Way cool! :-) I'm normally not a fan of guns, but this picture is awesome: Crayons (via Flickr)

February 4, 2005 • FreeBSD

FreeBSD\'s maintainability

FreeBSD's maintainability has been measured according to an index suggested by Ioannis Samoladas et al.

February 2, 2005 • Technology

Mac::Glue

Merging two old photo libraries (one that constantly made iPhoto crash that worked well when upgraded to iPhoto 5 with other old ones that I used to make iPhoto 2 quicker) I came across Cleaning iPhoto and Mac::Glue. So a quick:

February 1, 2005 • Photography

Homemade lenses

This is so cool: thigs guy makes his own lenses, and they give great results. :-)

January 31, 2005 • Photography

RAW support in iPhoto

Apple sent me a mail saying my iLife copy has been dispatched. In the mean time, California Fox reports that iPhoto's RAW support is, well, fake. It imports RAWs, but rather than use the RAW files as a source when modifying brightness, temperature, exposure, saturnation etc, it uses an intermediate JPG copy. And as we all know, this just isn't the same. This is not what we asked for when we wanted RAW support, and just not mentioning this and waiting for people's reactions seems just irresponsible on Apple's part.