I spent yesterday and today working through the excellent guide by Alex on using sqlite-vss to do vector similarity search in a SQLite database. I'm particularly interested in the benefits one can get from having these tools available locally for getting better insights into non-big datasets with a...
The standard SQLite shell on macOS doesn't support arrow key navigation like many standard CLI programs do. Pressing up, down, right, and left in that order outputs the following escape codes in the shell
I use Simon's llm to quickly run LLM prompts. This package is easily installed with brew or pip, so if you want to use it, I recommend those approaches. The following approach is not for the faint of heart and assumes a bit of familiarity with Nix and home-manager. We are going to install the llm...
I've been meaning to try out Simon's llm package for a while now. From reading the docs and following the development, it's a modular, meet-you-where-you-are CLI for running LLM inference locally or using almost any API out there. In the past, I might have installed this with brew, but we run nix...
Devbox, is an interesting, nix-based tool for setting up reproducible development environments. I recently needed to quickly setup a postgres database and load the Chinook dataset to play around with some queries. I could have used Docker, but I am not a fan of its UI or how heavyweight it has...
As I've fallen more down the rabbit hole, empowered by nix making it so easy to install, configure and manage any software, I discovered Alacritty as a fast, configurable terminal emulator. I've used and enjoyed iTerm2 for a while but it never hurts to try something new. I have some muscle memory...
I've used Hammerspoon as a window manager for almost 10 years. I decided to explore some of the newer tools in window management to see if I could find an alternative approach for what I do with Hammerspoon. Using yabai and skhd, I wrote the following skhdrc file that nearly reproduces the core...
This post is extremely similar to nix flakes and direnv. Here, I repeated my process, but with a little more thought and a little less language model magic.
I was following this guide to setup nix-darwin on a new Mac when I ran into an issue following the section about cross-compiling Linux binaries. I put this issue to the side when I first encountered it because I was trying to setup dependency management for my new system and this problem didn't...
Last year I wrote about nix and direnv as I explored the potential convenience of an isolated, project-specific environment. There were some interesting initial learnings about nix, but I didn't really know what I was doing. Now, I still don't know what I'm doing, but I've been doing it for...