Author: Vincent Lakatos

TopHat

Reduces your LLM token spend by optimizing the context layer in-flight. .NET HttpClient handler for Anthropic and OpenAI with on-demand retrieval.

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Nemesis

A custom AzerothCore module for WoW 3.3.5a that turns ordinary creatures into persistent, named elites when they kill you. They level, age, pick up traits from how they earned their kills, and drop procedurally affixed loot when finally taken down.

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Building a Document Management System That Replaced a $25,000 Vendor Solution

Our legacy document management system was nearly fifteen years out of date, required RDP access to view files, and offered limited, COM-based integration with other systems. When modernizing through the vendor proved costly and offered little flexibility, we built a replacement in-house. This article outlines the system’s architecture, key design decisions, and lessons learned.

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Coding Challenge Platforms

Sometimes the hardest part of practicing programming is figuring out what to program so I’ve compiled a list of my favorite coding challenge platforms in order from favorite to least favorite.

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Shock Box

A devious Christmas present that I created using an Arduino microcontroller and a handheld electric fly swatter.

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