# Eric Jinks - Software Engineering Blog
> Software engineering / creative coding / music

## Recent Posts
- [From code writers to system designers and verifiers](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/vibe-coding-in-prod/): A summary of a talk by Anthropic's Erik Schluntz.
- [Context engineering](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/context-engineering/): A better way to think about the role of "prompt engineering" in LLM-based applications.
- [Use GitHub discussions for comments on your static Astro site/blog](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/giscus/): Giscus is a commenting system that leverages GitHub discussions to provide an easy comment setup for your static site/blog.
- [Undo/redo state with event sourcing](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/event-sourcing/): Using event sourcing to implement undo/redo functionality in a React component.
- [Estimating LLM classification confidence with log probabilities (logprobs)](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/logprobs/): Estimating the confidence of an LLM's classification using log probabilities.

## 2025 Posts
- [From code writers to system designers and verifiers](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/vibe-coding-in-prod/): A summary of a talk by Anthropic's Erik Schluntz.
- [Context engineering](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/context-engineering/): A better way to think about the role of "prompt engineering" in LLM-based applications.
- [Use GitHub discussions for comments on your static Astro site/blog](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/giscus/): Giscus is a commenting system that leverages GitHub discussions to provide an easy comment setup for your static site/blog.
- [Undo/redo state with event sourcing](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/event-sourcing/): Using event sourcing to implement undo/redo functionality in a React component.
- [Estimating LLM classification confidence with log probabilities (logprobs)](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2025/logprobs/): Estimating the confidence of an LLM's classification using log probabilities.

## 2023 Posts
- [Use Day.js instead of Moment.js for less cognitive load and fewer bugs](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2023/dayjs/): Immutability = less cognitive load, less bugs

## 2022 Posts
- [React & TypeScript Cheatsheet](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2022/typescript-react-cheatsheet/): A quick reference for using TypeScript in a React project.

## 2021 Posts
- [Creative Coding Resources](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2021/creative-coding-resources/): My collection of creative coding resources, including books, inspirational projects, code repositories and tools.

## 2019 Posts
- [Serverless R functions with Cloud Run](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2019/serverless-r-cloud-run/): Using serverless containers to deploy scalable R functions.
- [Schedule your Netlify build with GitHub Actions](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2019/netlify-scheduled-build/): If your build process is pulling in content from third-party services (e.g. Instagram, Youtube), scheduling a daily build & deploy can be an easy way to keep this content fresh.

## 2018 Posts
- [Loading existing models with TensorFlow.js](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2018/loading-existing-models-tensorflow-js/): A pre-trained image classification CNN ready for inference in the browser
- [Linear Regression with TensorFlow.js](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2018/linear-regression-with-tensorflow-js/): Hand-on with the basics of TensorFlow.js using an interactive linear regression model in the browser.

## 2017 Posts
- [Creating static websites with React, Part 1](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2017/creating-static-websites-with-react-part-1/): Let's create a lightning-fast, offline-first static website with React
- [Creating a WebVR musical instrument using A-Frame & Tone.js](https://ericjinks.com/blog/2017/creating-a-webvr-synth/): Audio synthesis in WebVR

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