Posts tagged "tech"

Announcing a new chess bot - A0lite-js

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on - a TypeScript port of the a0lite chess engine. The original a0lite was created as a minimalist neural network chess engine, designed to be simpl...

Getting Clean From The Bean

Triumphs and travails while finding the ideal cup of home brewed coffee - up until its drastic downfall. Featuring almost exploding coffee machines and crows.

What's new for Berliners in 2025

Update: the 2026 version is live Every year, on the first of January, all sorts of things change in Germany as new laws come into force. Mostly, life gets more expensive, but there are some nice su...

What's new for Berliners in 2025

Update: the 2026 version is live Every year, on the first of January, all sorts of things change in Germany as new laws come into force. Mostly, life gets more expensive, but there are some nice su...

Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training

A few months ago I used streamlit to build a simple UI, so I can collect manually labeled data for a LLM fine-tuning task at work. Streamlit is fine, but the full process of creating a nice UI with...

Quickly Filter and Aggregate Python Lists

Today I came across this brilliant python library called leopards which allows you to do some basic but frequently used filters and aggregations on python lists. I"ve always used pandas for any qui...

Being better

My epistemic breakthrough to better living A year and a half ago, I decided to go completely vegan. Actually, scratch that—completely plant-based. I only went vegan about a year ago1. It took six m...

Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability

I’ve been using sentry for automatically logging the errors and exceptions of my python projects. A few months ago I needed to log some information if a specific condition is true in my side projec...

My Bash Script Preamble Boilerplate

I’ve been writing Bash scripts for years and have slowly built up a boilerplate of sorts that I typically copy and paste into new scripts at the start. Hence a “preamble boilerplate.” If you just w...

Moon

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable...

Mixing CEL and Protobuf for Fun

Pixi - Real World Usage

Managing dependencies and environments across multiple platforms can be a nightmare. That’s why I was thrilled to discover Pixi. I’ve previous talked about Pixi on LinkedIn/Twitter, but haven’t use...

🎉 Sandboxels v1.10.2 - Birthday Update OUT NOW ⛄️

Long-awaited additions and polish to celebrate this year's Sandboxels anniversary.

16-bit BGP Community Architecture

There are a lot of reasons a network engineer might use a 16-bit BGP community tag in an enterprise environment. It can be forced from pre-existing constraints and overcoming technical debt while s...

Using LLMs to Explain Historical Code: FLOW-MATIC Investigation

The new generation of code assistance tools powered by Large Language Models (LLM)s may be useful in efficiently categorizing and translating historical software corpora. In this qualitative study,...

The joy of feed readers and alternative ways to consume content

Let’s talk about feed readers: software that lets you subscribe to feeds to get updates when new content is published. There are many kinds of feeds and feed readers. We’ll focus on the ones that p...

Why I choose Microdata

The four most popular ways to use RDF-based metadata on websites are RDFa-Core, RDFa-Lite, Microdata, and inline JSON-LD.I can’t use RDFa-Lite because I need rel HTML attributes. rel silently upgra...

My deleted review of this restaurant

Guess my review didn't pass the community rules of Google Maps

Remote SSH Access Without Static IP or Domain Name Using Cloudflare Zero Trust: A Step-by-Step Guide

During my undergraduate studies, I relied on a gaming laptop for most of my university projects because I needed a powerful CPU and GPU. Carrying it around in my backpack was cumbersome, but at the...

"Rules" that terminal programs follow

Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever p...