A spot where I slipped up in trying to adopt Temporal in an existing Python project and then again in starting a new Python project was in defining a Workflow that invokes an Activity that calls a third party library. Temporal outputs an error message with a long stacktrace that I vaguely...
A post about disabling the blinking cursor in Obsidian
I wanted to stop the Obsidian editor cursor from blinking. Something like VS Code's
Cursor is VS Code with Cmd+K that opens a text box that can do text generation based on a prompt. When I created this post, I first typed insert hugo yaml markdown frontmatter
The problem with long running code in Next serverless functions
First attempt
I downloaded Warp today. I've been using iTerm2 for years. It's worked well for me but Warp came recommended and so I figured I should be willing to give something different a chance. Warp looks like a pretty standard terminal except you need to sign-in, as with most things SaaS these days. It...
promptfoo is a Javascript library and CLI for testing and evaluating LLM output quality. It's straightforward to install and get up and running quickly. As a first experiment, I've used it to compare the output of three similar prompts that specify their output structure using different modes of...
To broaden my knowledge of nix, I'm working through an Overview of the Nix Language.
I started working through the Zero to Nix guide. This is a light introduction that touch on a few of the command line tools that come with nix and how they can be used to build local and remote projects and enter developer environments. While many of the examples are high level concept you'd...
I've been following the "AI engineering framework" marvin for several months now. In addition to openaifunctioncall, it's currently one of my favorite abstractions built on top of a language model. The docs are quite good, but as a quick demo, I've ported over a simplified version of an example...