CTO at The Non-Functional Co. Building AI compliance for regulated finance. Writing on LLM agent reliability, memory, and determinism.https://nikhil-verma.com/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/agents-time-travel/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/agents-time-travel/AI Agents are stuck with a single chain of thought. If can be encouraged to traverse different paths, learn from them, and go back in time with the learnings. That would be cool.Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/create-realistic-planet/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/create-realistic-planet/A fun old Photoshop tutorial showing how to create a realistic planet using filters, rendering, and layer techniques. Step-by-step guide with visual demonstrations.Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/from-tool-to-process-phantomcss/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/from-tool-to-process-phantomcss/How I converted PhantomCSS from a single-user tool into an integrated part of our team's workflow, covering challenges from CI integration to test execution optimization.Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/why-are-you-testing/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/why-are-you-testing/You might already have some quick answers in mind for this question. I totally get it - I do...Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/fixed-headers-in-mobile-webapps/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/fixed-headers-in-mobile-webapps/Overcome the challenges of implementing fixed headers in mobile web apps by hiding the address bar, removing interaction delays, and preventing unwanted page scrolling when using form inputs.Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/xpaths-in-the-modern-age/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/xpaths-in-the-modern-age/XPath selectors offer powerful querying capabilities but face compatibility challenges with modern web technologies like Web Components and Vue 3.Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/using-regular-expressions-amdfication/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/using-regular-expressions-amdfication/How we used the power of regular expressions to speed up our migration from a global namespace pattern to AMD modules (RequireJS), automating the conversion of 400+ files in Badoo's MobileWeb project.Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/5-advanced-javascript-debugging-techniques/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/5-advanced-javascript-debugging-techniques/Master five powerful debugging techniques that web developers can use to reduce debugging time and squash challenging bugs: Weinre, DOM Breakpoints, the debugger statement, hooking native methods, and mapping remote scripts locally.Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/from-vue-2-to-3/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/from-vue-2-to-3/TL;DR This is a long post detailing my journey of migrating a project from Vue 2 to 3. It...Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/llms-unreliable-narrators-uuid-hallucination/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/llms-unreliable-narrators-uuid-hallucination/LLMs often fabricate UUIDs in RAG pipelines. Learn two production-ready strategies - enum constraints and token aliasing - to cut hallucination rates and stabilize multi-turn reasoning.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/moving-from-react-to-vue/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/moving-from-react-to-vue/I moved from a React to a Vue project two years ago from a company change. If you are about to...Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/flatten-nested-json-trees-in-postgres/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/flatten-nested-json-trees-in-postgres/Deeply nested JSON makes per-node jobs unaddressable and partial loads impossible. Flatten to one row per node with order and indent integers, then rebuild hierarchy with SQL range queries or a single O(n) pass.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/removing-nginx-from-nuxt-nitro/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/removing-nginx-from-nuxt-nitro/An in-container NGINX broke SSE streaming, corrupted auth responses, and blocked cluster mode. Why I pulled it out, what had to be rebuilt in-process, and where compression actually belongs.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/reliable-small-llm-agent-harness/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/reliable-small-llm-agent-harness/Getting reliable, side-effecting tool use out of a small, cheap model (Haiku 3) by investing in the harness rather than the model — ref proxies that make hallucinated IDs impossible, and tool contracts that make skipping a required step impossible.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nikhil-verma.com/blog/rate-limiting-llm-apis-distributed-workers/https://nikhil-verma.com/blog/rate-limiting-llm-apis-distributed-workers/Token-per-minute limits refill gradually, so backing off past ~60 seconds is just wasted time. A three-layer pattern for rate limiting LLM APIs across distributed workers: shared pause state, jittered resume, and a single retry owner.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT