Nicolas Frankel
121 viewsWorld geography gotchas
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d'Italia and Büsingen am …
Nicolas Frankel
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Nicolas Frankel
18 viewsBuild an AI Agent (From Scratch)
This review is about Build an AI Agent (From Scratch) by Jungjun Hur and Younghee Song from Manning. Facts 10 chapters $29.29 (at the time …
Nicolas Frankel
3 viewsAI-assisted genealogy
My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it …
Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration
My current company has settled on using Gradle. It doesn't make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints. Plus, I must …
Nicolas Frankel
4 viewsGitHub agentic workflows and Renovate
I've been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already. Renovate scans your repositories, detects outdated package versions, and …
Nicolas Frankel
1 viewsOn programming languages, targets, and platforms
I started as a Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were …
Nicolas Frankel
2 viewsSeasons time-lapse - the video
In the first post of this series, I focused on the project foundations: what should I do to create a video from photos taken from the same …
AI gateways: why and how
Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It's only by working with them that I …
Nicolas Frankel
1 viewsSeasons time-lapse - alignment
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the …
Seasons time-lapse - the foundations
I live close to nature. I regularly go for a run in the countryside. Over several years, during my runs, I've taken pictures from the same …