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Quanttype, about, archive, subscribe quanttype is a weblog about software engineering by Miikka Koskinen.I’m an independent consultant based in Helsinki, Finland.The topics I write about are rooted in the issues, both technical and human, that I encounter in my day-to-day work.
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Perfect Dockerfile for Rust backends
Do you have a backend service implemented in Rust that you're going to deploy in a Docker container? Not sure how to write the Dockerfile? Start by copy-pasting the one below. ...
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What I learned at Nordic PGDay 2026
This week I attended Nordic PGDay 2026 . It's a one-day PostgreSQL conference that travels between Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Helsinki. I don't know much about PostgreSQL, bu...
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Speed up code with pi-autoresearch
Have you heard of Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch project ? He has automated the research into training a small LLM with a coding agent. The agent makes changes to improve the training...
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Software for myself
Thanks to the coding agents, it's easier than ever to create small pieces of software. I've been creating small apps, tools, and toys for myself. Last week I posted about Goblin Mode...
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Goblin Mode, or spinning up VMs for feral agents
I've been working on a new tool for spinning up development environments. It's called Goblin Mode . It spins up a new virtual machine (VM) on Hetzner and configures everything to be ready so that you can just SSH in and tha...
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Let's automate our jobs
Thanks to the coding agents like Claude Code, programming is now over . It's more efficient to prompt an AI model to write code than it is to write it by hand. ...
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Programming is over
Coding agents are so good now that they're going to change the work of software engineers permanently. Allow me to have some takes 1 . h2 id="programmin...
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Yearnote 2025
Welcome to 2026. It sure has been a year already in terms of world events. Nevertheless, I'm going to talk a bit about how my 2025 was, the same procedure as every year . On the photos: there's one photo for each month, in chronological order. img src="ht
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PyCon Finland 2025
After a nine-year break, PyCon Finland was back this Friday as a part of PloneConf 2025. I took a morning train to Jyväskylä and gave my talk about extending Python with Rust . It went...
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PyCon UK 2025
Welcoming. That's the word that comes to my mind when I think about PyCon UK 2025 . PyCon UK is the main Python conference in the UK. This year's edition took place a week ago - mid-Sep...
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