Dec 26, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ Programming Lewis Carroll's *Memoria Technica* Charles Dodgson (pen name Lewis Carroll) had difficulty remembering numbers, such as dates. He developed a cipher to help him remember numbers by embedding them in couplets or phrases. For example,...
Dec 26, 2024 from Pankaj Tanwar - CS Engineer, writer & creator. Building a tiny load balancing service using PID Controllers 🚘
Dec 26, 2024 from Sophia Willows' Blog Low and steady write rates can be misleading A common mistake in system design interviews is to underestimate a low but steady write rate. Many candidates quickly dismiss a write rate of 1 request per second as insignificant, but this isn’t a...
Dec 25, 2024 from fasterthanli.me Catching up with async Rust In December 2023, a minor miracle happened: async fn in traits shipped. As of Rust 1.39, we already had free-standing async functions: pub async fn read_hosts() -> eyre::Result> { // etc. } …and a...
Dec 24, 2024 from Paul's Weblog I Read Approachable Open Source Previously: “Approachable Open Source” Available for Preorder, You Deserve a Tech Bookclub I wrapped up Brian’s Approachable Open Source earlier this month and really enjoyed it. I won’t spoil much...
Dec 23, 2024 from Paul's Weblog You Deserve a Tech Bookclub Inspired by Ethan Marcotte’s You Deserve a Tech Union book title — which is slotted as the next bookclub read — I wanted to talk about the ad-hoc casual bookclub that I’ve been doing for the past f...
Dec 22, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Ten Favorite Photos I Captured in 2024 I purchased a Sony a7ii in 2023, while having zero understanding of the basics of cameras and photography. I recall being particularly confused about the exposure triangle , especially how aperture...
Dec 21, 2024 from Gonçalo Valério The books I enjoyed the most in 2024 Another year went by, and another batch of books was consumed. Just like I did last year, I want to share the ones that I enjoyed the most. But what kind of metric is that? Truth be told, it is not...
Dec 21, 2024 from Paul's Weblog CodePen 2.0 Earlier this week I was listening to an episode of the Changelog & Friends podcast which had Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from their podcast ShopTalk Show. During the conversation, CodePen “two poi...
Dec 21, 2024 from Ishan Das Sharma 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...
Dec 20, 2024 from Thranpages 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.
Dec 19, 2024 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts 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...
Dec 19, 2024 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts 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...
Dec 19, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili 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...
Dec 19, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili 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...
Dec 19, 2024 from Anirudh Oppiliappan 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...
Dec 19, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili 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...
Dec 18, 2024 from Paul's Weblog 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...
Dec 17, 2024 from Bartosz Ciechanowski 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...
