Blog & Articles by Jan Stępień

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Think Locally: On-Premise LLMs as Drivers of Competitive Advantage

Consider this scenario: Your organisation has integrated AI tools into critical business processes, your legal team has carefully reviewed data processing agreements, and your IT department has configured systems to comply with GDPR requirements. Then, a foreign court issues an order that overrides all these protections, requiring your AI provider to indefinitely retain data that should be deleted—including potentially sensitive corporate information shared by your employees.

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Draw The Diff

Software developers have an idiosyncratic penchant for boxes and arrows. Back when we used to go to the office we penned them on whiteboards. Later, as the force majeure accelerated the digital transformation of our economies, we drew them online.

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How to Encrypt a File on the JVM

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong

What could possibly go wrong if you put Clojure 1.10 and Scala 2.13 on the same classpath? We’re about to find out.

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Cooking with Onions: Inward-Pointing Arrows

The onion architecture is an established approach to structuring applications.

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Native Clojure with GraalVM

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It All Looks the Same to Me

In the previous post, pHash helped us to summarize our photo album. Now it’s time to employ BK-trees and efficiently search through the metric space of perceptual hashes. Let’s roll up the sleeves; more Rust awaits!

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Formatting with first-class types

Programming with stringly-typed APIs is like walking a tightrope; it’s good to have some support in case something goes wrong. Languages with first-class types offer us impressive tooling to guarantee correctness of our code. In this post, we’ll see how Idris helps us bullet-proof a printf function.

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That looks oddly familiar

In which Rust and perceptual hashing come together.

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Remain resilient, fail fast

Keep your systems resilient to broken connections and unreliable networks. Unless it’s start-up time.