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Today I Learned
Warp: first impressions
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...
Nix Language
To broaden my knowledge of nix, I'm working through an Overview of the Nix Language.
Zero to Nix
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...
Migrating to Modules in Hugo
Go introduced modules several years ago as part of a dependency management system. My Hugo site is still using git submodules to manage its theme. I attempted to migrate to Go's submodules but eventually ran into a snag when trying to deploy the site.
Threading Macros
The threading macro in Clojure provides a more readable way to compose functions together. It's a bit like a Bash pipeline. The following function takes a string, splits on a : and trims the whitespace from the result. The threading macro denoted by -> passes the threaded value as the first...
Cloudflare D1
I was interested to learn more about the developer experience of Cloudflare's D1 serverless SQL database offering. I started with this tutorial. Using wrangler you can scaffold a Worker and create a D1 database. The docs were straightforward up until the Write queries within your Worker...
Trying out Jsonformer
I tried out jsonformer to see how it would perform with some of structured data use cases I've been exploring.
Trying Out Deepsparse
I've been keeping an eye out for language models that can run locally so that I can use them on personal data sets for tasks like summarization and knowledge retrieval without sending all my data up to someone else's cloud. Anthony sent me a link to a Twitter thread about product called deepsparse...