I just did a fresh clone of my site for the first time in (probably) years. I've been using nix on my new system, so I was writing a flake to setup a development environment for the site with Hugo and Python. When I ran hugo serve, I saw all my content show up
I tried out Deno for the first time. Deno bills itself as the most productive, secure, and performant JavaScript runtime for the modern programmer
Edit (2024-07-21): Vercel has updated the ai package to use different abstractions than the examples below. Consider reading their docs first before using the example below, which is out of date.
Goku has a concept called a simlayer. A simlayer allows you to press any single key on the keyboard, then any second key while holding the first and trigger an arbitrary action as a result. I'm going to write a karabiner.edn config that opens Firefox when you press <kbd>.</kbd>+<kbd>f</kbd>.
Karabiner is a keyboard customizer for macOS. I've used it for a while to map my caps lock key to <kbd>cmd</kbd> + <kbd>ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>option</kbd> + <kbd>shift</kbd>. This key combination is sometimes called a hyper key. With this keyboard override, I use other programs like Hammerspoon and...
I've starting playing around with Fireworks.ai to run inference using open source language models with an API. Fireworks' product is the best I've come across for this use case. While Fireworks has their own client, I wanted to try and use the OpenAI Python SDK compatibility approach, since I have...
In a previous note, I discussed running coroutines in a non-blocking manner using gather. This approach works well when you have a known number of coroutines that you want to run in a non-blocking manner. However, if you have tens, hundreds, or more tasks, especially when network calls are...
Exploring accidental synchronous blocking in asynchronous programming in Python with coroutines.
Python coroutines allow for asynchronous programming in a language that earlier in its history, has only supported synchronous execution. I've previously compared taking a synchronous approach in Python to a parallel approach in Go using channels. If you're familiar with async/await in JavaScript,...
Render is a platform as a service company that makes it easy to quickly deploy small apps. They have an easy-to-use free tier and I wanted run a Python app with dependencies managed by Poetry. Things had been going pretty well until I unexpectedly got the following error after a deploy
In Javascript, using async/await is a cleaner approach compared to use of callbacks. Occasionally, you run into useful but older modules that you'd like to use in the more modern way.