The Living Deadline

 

Get the Value of a High-Quality Audit, All the Time

engineering
productivity
genai
ops

Turn pain points into repeatable questions and build a lightweight taxonomy of your world.

Jan 29, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Reducing Error Compounding in GenAI Systems

engineering
genai
evals

How chaining LLM calls compounds errors, and why replacing probabilistic steps with deterministic ones improves reliability.

Jan 28, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi

Stop Reformatting Markdown When Pasting into Slack

productivity
Slack only pastes rich formatting when the clipboard advertises text/html, otherwise it treats everything as plain text.
Jan 16, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Fix: pip hangs in WSL (IPv6 / gai.conf)

troubleshooting
pip install hangs in WSL with no useful error, often after it starts fetching from files.pythonhosted.org.
Jan 13, 2026
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Talks: Toward a Shared Vision for LLM Evaluation in the Airflow Ecosystem

Airflow Summit 2025 - Lightning Talk (5 min)
airflow
talks
As LLM tools and agents emerge in the Airflow community, whether as plugins, MCP servers, or embedded agents, we lack a consistent way to benchmark across implementations…
Sep 9, 2025
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Using Data Build Tool (dbt) to Accelerate & Scale Science

data-science
engineering
This post is part of a series: “Factory of Domain Experts”:
Sep 1, 2025
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Use aider for free with your local LLMs or cheaply with OpenRouter

genai
code
Many people use LLM (Large Language Models) services to code at work but don’t necessarily see a path to use them at home on a budget.
Jul 6, 2025
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Merge and Forget

engineering
After your change is approved and enters the delivery pipeline, you should be able to forget it.
May 18, 2024
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

No News Is Good News

engineering
Do not check whether things are fine.
May 17, 2024
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Set a Meeting Budget

productivity
Too many recurring meetings drain your week’s productivity.
Mar 1, 2023
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Get notifications in ubuntu when command line tasks end

devops
Often, when working in the terminal, you’ll find yourself running a command that takes a non-trivial amount of time and you don’t want to just stare at the screen until it…
Apr 16, 2019
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
 

Accept a self-signed certificate with git

devops
Some time ago I came into an issue where people served git repositories in a local network using apache but used a self-signed certificate for the server.
Feb 11, 2018
Alex Guglielmone Nemi
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