The FFmpeg Ghost: How a Bundled Native Library Broke Every Flutter Plugin
A transitive FFmpegKit dependency crashed during Android plugin registration, silently killing Firebase and every other platform channel. Tracing the root cause from misleading error messages to a JNI_OnLoad failure.
Flutter
Firebase
debugging
March 2026
Using Claude Code as a Subprocess Provider for Automated Code Review
Spawning Claude Code CLI as a child process in Node.js, treating it as an interchangeable provider alongside OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Covers binary discovery, the streaming JSON protocol, tool handling asymmetry, and sandboxing.
Claude Code
architecture
code review
March 2026
Why Your RAG's Source of Truth Shouldn't Be a Vector Database
Markdown files as source of truth, vector index as disposable cache. A case study from homeclaw on filesystem-first RAG with privacy-by-path, two-layer context, and graceful degradation.
RAG
architecture
homeclaw
March 2026
Eridanus: Knowledge Context Surfacing
How real-time meeting translation meets enterprise knowledge retrieval. An interactive course covering the KnowledgeSource interface, Glean integration, conversation state tracking, and the surfacing gate.
eridanus
glean
real-time
March 2026