Your coding-agent quota is at 99%. Now what?
The agent already explored the repo and understands the task. Hand off that session state instead of reconstructing it somewhere else.
Engineering Insights
Practical notes, release announcements, and engineering deep-dives from the projects built at PVR Labs.
Spring Boot on a 256 MB VPS: What Changed with JDK 25 Compact Object Headers
A JDK 25 Alpine follow-up completed the hour on a nominal 256 MiB VPS, but high swap use and a long scheduling delay kept the result firmly in stretch-test territory.
Spring Boot on a 512 MB VPS: How Lightweight Monitoring Still Fits
A Spring Boot 3.5 app with JPA, Tomcat, and Actuator ran on 512 MB plus a small swapfile. The monitor stayed around 12 MiB.
Reviewing agent-generated code with an independent second model in VS Code
Review complete Git changes in VS Code, then use focused repository context when an AI reviewer needs more evidence.
I Taught Maven to Be an Introvert
How a small Bash wrapper reduced successful Maven output by more than 99.7% while preserving useful diagnostics for coding agents.
Air-Gapped AI Coding: Keeping Proprietary Repositories Off the Cloud
Use AI coding assistants without granting them repository access: map locally, disclose only reviewed context, and confirm every proposed write.
Lightweight Spring Boot Monitoring Without Prometheus and Grafana
Turn Spring Boot Actuator data into a focused dashboard for a few applications on a VPS, without operating a full Prometheus and Grafana stack.
Bypassing the Claude Code "Token Tax": Smart Code Reviews with Local Mapping
Autonomous coding agents consume tokens rapidly during reviews by rescanning projects and pulling broad context. Learn how to map locally, extract precise snippets, and review efficiently in any web chat.