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Ben Ford

@missionctrl.dev

CEO of Mission Ctrl - competitive advantage as a service for high growth service businesses with AI automation. Programmer, dad, agentic AI explorer, OODA nerd, former Royal Marines Commando. (@commandodev on the other place)

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The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan A comprehensive guide to CRDTs and their tradeoffs, from counters to sequences. Written in the spirit of the Typeclassopedia, exploring how different CRDTs solve the distributed consensus puzzle.

CRDTs are the data structures that make “Google Docs-style collaboration, but for arbitrary data” possible. I've had a lasting fascination with them for about 11 years.

So, I wrote up a field guide that is hopefully a handy introduction. With interactive examples!

iankduncan.com/engineering/...

28.11.2025 09:52 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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Ghc now runs in your browser ghc itself can now run purely client-side in the browser, here’s a haskell playground demo. terms and conditions apply, and i’ll write up more detailed explanation some time later, but i thought this ...

This is not a drill: GHC (the #Haskell compiler) now runs in your browser. See the announcement (and please report any bugs) here: discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-ru...

25.10.2025 19:28 👍 119 🔁 42 💬 7 📌 5
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Apparently I find cooking quite stressful 🤣🤣

04.05.2025 16:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Librechat is great. Project goose also looks good, but I've not been able to test the desktop as I'm on linux

27.04.2025 13:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Let's not overlook the guacamole of regret!

10.04.2025 21:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mission Ctrl - Digital Sovereignty for Service Businesses Mission Ctrl transforms your expertise into scalable systems you completely own and control—establishing true digital sovereignty for your growing service business.

missionctrl.dev new website (finally)

04.04.2025 18:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Not bad as holiday photos go!

11.03.2025 12:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Enhancing AI Prompts with SMEAC In this video, I walk you through how to use the Military Orders Process, or SMIC, to improve AI prompts effectively. I demonstrate this by using DeepSeek and another LLM to refine prompts for better ...

Want to get good at using AI?

Borrow some ideas from the military:

www.loom.com/share/e5f38b...

20.02.2025 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's a one way trip for sure!

04.02.2025 08:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah posthog then I would say

29.01.2025 14:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow - they release GPUs in deepseek blue already. That's fast! 😅

29.01.2025 14:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you have a relational db - metabase.

29.01.2025 14:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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PSA. Never go to the gym on someone's birthday!

19.01.2025 10:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This looks GREAT! Just raised a little issue on GH :-)

08.01.2025 09:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's been a decent few days 😁

31.12.2024 23:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year!

31.12.2024 21:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🤖Command: a new tool for building multi-agent architectures in LangGraph

You can now create ✨edgeless graphs✨ in LangGraph via the new Command type

This allows for more dynamic agent and multi-agent workflows

Blog: blog.langchain.dev/command-a-ne...

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BJD...

10.12.2024 20:37 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Apply to be interviewed by No CS Degree Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

I'm looking for more self-taught or bootcamp trained devs to do interviews for my No CS Degree website

• Interviews go out to 8000 newsletter subscribers
• DA backlink of 41
• You get to plug your product for free 😀
• You can encourage more people to get into coding

tally.so/r/mKYG5z

10.12.2024 15:50 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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loki from avengers : age of ultron is making a funny face while holding his finger to his chin . ALT: loki from avengers : age of ultron is making a funny face while holding his finger to his chin .

Sticky chicken. Dammit.

08.12.2024 21:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a baby is crying with a tear coming out of his nose . ALT: a baby is crying with a tear coming out of his nose .

😭

07.12.2024 23:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a picture of a man in a helmet with the words this is the way intensifies ALT: a picture of a man in a helmet with the words this is the way intensifies

The would the "operations" sheet that runs the whole business right?

06.12.2024 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I'm going out.

To meet actual people!

Must remember to not bore people to death with AI talk 😅

26.11.2024 13:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He wasn't in idiocracy tho...

21.11.2024 17:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I train like a savage so I can eat like a king 😄

21.11.2024 12:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's fast, good and cheap (yep, all 3)

21.11.2024 09:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I really like supermaven

20.11.2024 21:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🤖Agentic RAG with VoyageAI, Gemini and LangGraph

Agentic RAG adds intelligent agents that can retrieve, verify, and act on data autonomously.

This a great fit for complex situations like medical diagnoses or customer service

myscale.com/blog/agentic...

#langchain #ai

14.11.2024 14:16 👍 37 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0