Dec 31, 2024 from ~hedy Default Apps 2024 I don’t have a dedicated /uses page; only a little table on my about page that lists the development-related essentials. Since today is the last day of 2024, I decided to jump on the “default apps”...
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 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 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 The Linkfest Linkfest #28: Neolithic Octopuses, Weeping Trees, and a Forty-Year-Old Snowman Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — or, my latest “Linkfest”, in which I painstakingly debone the entire Internet to extract its finest cuts of science, culture and technology, j...
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...
Dec 15, 2024 from R74n Newsletter 🎉 Sandboxels v1.10.2 - Birthday Update OUT NOW ⛄️ Long-awaited additions and polish to celebrate this year's Sandboxels anniversary.
Dec 14, 2024 from ~hedy 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...
Dec 08, 2024 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta Weekly update #20241208 Note: I will be moving to short notes in addition to longer form content, inspired by rbv. Trying to do anything meaningful automating rekordbox is painful. pyrekordbox and DJ-Tools make it a bit l...
Dec 04, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Build a search engine, not a vector DB If you want to make a good RAG tool that uses your documentation, you should start by making a search engine over those documents that would be good enough for a human to use themselves. This is ex...
Dec 01, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili Access Google Gemini LLM via OpenAI Python Library Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY", base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/"...
Nov 29, 2024 from ~hedy Removing comments on my posts A few years ago I had a wonderful idea. Arguably the best system I could think of for comments for my blog: a mailing list. Here’s how it worked. I had set up a mailing list on lists.sr.ht, which a...
Nov 28, 2024 from ~hedy Webmentions Webmention is a system in which other websites can notify you that when their site has mentioned a page on your site. It originated from the IndieWeb and is now a W3C Recommendation. To receive Web...
Nov 27, 2024 from The Linkfest Linkfest #27: Aztec Death Whistles, "Supercircular" Solar, and Collateralized GPU Obligations Why HELLO THERE. It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”: A collection of the best stuff in science, culture and technology that I could ransack from the rangy glob...
Nov 25, 2024 from ~hedy Hugo shortcodes in Lume Recently, I’ve been looking at Lume, a new-ish static-site generator that runs on Deno as a possible replacement for Hugo on my site. I decided to give it a try when starting a new project, the sta...
Nov 22, 2024 from nutcroft Goodbye I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I do. I admired the people who did and now I'm one of them. The feeling now is: th...
Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...
