Unicode? Character Sets? UTF-what?
I was inspired to add this note after recent frustrations about the complete ignorance of character sets in both Commercial & Open software. I seriously recommend everyone reads the following, less ISO-blahblahblah and more UTF-8, no excuses!
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
Charset Detection for Fun and Non-Profit
Building a tool to detect and convert character encodings in the FreeDB database, processing 1.8 million entries with surprising results
From Solo Tool to Team Infrastructure: Scaling Gluon for Production
When I first built Gluon on my Mac mini, I was solving a personal problem: monitoring Claude agents without losing my mind to tmux logs. But when teams join the picture, everything changes—security, governance, observability, and the fundamental role of the developer. Here's what production infrastructure for autonomous agents looks like.
Ralph Loop: Teaching AI Agents to Work Autonomously (Without Burning Your Budget)
How Gluon's Ralph Loop enables autonomous Claude execution with built-in safety rails — circuit breakers, multi-signal completion detection, and cost controls that scale from simple tasks to complex workflows.