Posts tagged "tech"

A Few Notes on the Transformer

A self-attention block depicted as a neural network. In this post I will describe the attention mechanism, commonly used in transformers, a popular neural language architecture. Most of the most we...

Rolling My Own Blog Search

I’ve found myself hitting ctrl+f on this blog enough that I figured it’s about time to add some search functionality to it. While there are certainly prefab solutions out there, this task is simple...

Practice being a beginner

I’m a big fan of trying new things. Part of the process that I’ve come to enjoy is facing and getting over my initial hesitations and reaffirming that it’s OK to be bad at things. Trying something ...

pop-data-frame

I’m still using consult to make fun, little Emacs packages that improve my everyday work. This time, I wrote a little package called pop-data-frame. The idea of pop-data-frame is to work with Emacs...

OAuth2 and Cloudflare Workers

Building a small module for Cloudflare Workers to allow integration with Google/OAuth2

Arbitrary deadlines are actually awesome

After reading Lucas da Costa’s Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead, I agree with almost every point he makes, especially this one: It’s about time we start calling deadlines by their...

Unicode text input in ZMK

A hacky interim solution using macros As a highly cultured em-dash (over-)user, being able to type ‘—’ easily is very important to me. While waiting for zmkfirmware/zmk#232 to get merged, I’ve disc...

For the past 10 years, I have been keeping a diary

I have been writing down events of my life for the last 10 years. I want to celebrate this achievement. 🎉☺️ This diary helped me a lot in the past, and I wish to convince anyone who is on the fence...

Use Ripgrep-all from Emacs

Previously, I wrote a little package to integrate Everything search into Emacs using the Consult framework. It’s pretty useful if you are searching for (say) all the files on your Windows computer ...

Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach

There’s a common pattern I’ve seen when learning something new, where you can effectively move towards a larger goal by working on problems just outside of your reach. I did a little thinking about...

Id3vx – a library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags

The podcast moguls of Changelog Media have been keen to introduce chapters into their podcast episodes and they reached out to me for a hand. And would you know, now they have chapters and the Elix...

SvelteKit Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with @urql/svelte

Learn why server-side rendering (SSR) using urql as a GraphQL client is not as straightforward as you might think and how to do it anyway.

iPhones and action discoverability, or "How the hell was I supposed to know that?"

Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the wild when I can. One of the things that always catches my eyes is the idea of d...

The hobby buyer's fallacy: "I'd really pursue my hobby if I just bought X"

There’s a trap I used to fall into that has happened more times than I’d like to admit1. The typical scenario would be something like this: There’s a hobby I’m into (or starting to get into) I find...

A new chapter for Changelog podcasts

Adam and I have wanted our podcasts to have chapters for a looooong time. Like, multiple years long. They’re such a great way to navigate and explore an episode. You can skip directly to the subjec...

Humans vs. Machines: The End for Competitive Chess

Please be aware that the views expressed in this poste are solely those of the author and do not represent the official stance of any chess federation or organization. The world of competitive ches...

Superstition - an engineering anti-pattern

Design patterns are reusable approaches to common problems - anti-patterns are the same, but ineffective (and even counterproductive). An example of a design pattern is the singleton - we often wan...

Stubbornness and programming

Every now and then, there will be the type of problem to solve where I know it will require an extra cup of coffee, a long block of dedicated time, and a lot of careful reading, debugging, note tak...

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and professional projects, but my view has mostly been at a high level and concerned mainl...

Top 3 USELESS JavaScript interview questions 🤮