The Simplest Thing In The World: Modifing Keymaps in Wayland
To remap the PrtSc key to the Hyper modifier key under Wayland with Gnome Shell on Ubuntu/Debian on the 28th of April 2024 (around noon) with a us keyboard mapping (I’m hedging my bets here),…
🪄 Install asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
Almost everyone I know who uses a computer, for...
Virtualizing the 6502 with 6o6 (and The Incredible KIMplement goes 1.0)
Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two d...
The Sound of Silence: Why Leaders Must Listen to Thrive - Zeitvice
Discover the critical role of listening in leadership and how it influences innovation, employee engagement, and organizational success.
Five Ways I Deal with Writer's Block
Some coping mechanisms I've developped over the years of staring at the blinking cursor.
A Software Engineering Career Ladder
I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge…
things I tell myself to be more agentic – Daniel Frank
This is written as a personal self-affirmation — my hope is that by writing it up and sharing it publicly, I will internalize these words more and act on them. In the context of this post, being agentic means being more ambitious, doing more things out in the …
Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests
Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (YouTube) Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin (Yo…
“Jewish Mathematics”?
Quick math-personality quiz: What is seven-and-one-fourth minus three-fourths, expressed as a mixed number (a whole number plus a proper fraction)? What matters isn’t what answer you get but how yo…
Garrison Jensen - Sorted Containers in Ruby inspired by Python
I converted Grant Jenks’s Python library Sorted Containers to Ruby. If you are interested in the details of this data structure, I recommend reading his website. His documentation is much more detailed, and I used it as a reference for this implementation.
So what’s the point of linear algebra, anyway?
Asking someone in a STEM field to justify linear algebra concepts is a bit like asking a Haskell programmer about monads. The best case scenario is that you’ll get a shrug and a “don’t worry about it, just learn when to use it”. The more common scenario is an …
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Metric learning with linear methods - Emir's blog
I read this paper a while ago, which sets out the problem of linear metric learning nicely but then proceeds to solve it in a way I personally thought unnecessarily indirect. It seemed to me that there was a neat analytical solution, so I thought I’d have a go…
Why reading whitepapers takes your career to the next level (and how to do it)
Guest post by L6 Staff Engineer & Tech Lead at Google
GitHub - rejunity/z80-open-silicon: Z80 open-source silicon. Goal is to become a silicon proven, pin compatible, open-source replacement for classic Z80.
Z80 open-source silicon. Goal is to become a silicon proven, pin compatible, open-source replacement for classic Z80. - rejunity/z80-open-silicon
Keep Out! - A WebGL game by the makers of Mozilla BrowserQuest
Keep Out! An action-packed adventure playable for free in your browser. Explore the dungeon, fight monsters and unlock epic weapons!
Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
Using an E-Ink Monitor
I recently bought an e-ink monitor: Dasung’s 2019 13.3” Paperlike HD-F. This post covers my knee-jerk reactions after having used it for a few days. There are other more in-depth reviews of it online.
Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso
Published on 04/27/2024, 2125 words, 8 minutes to read
Podcasts, the Universe, and Everything
Recently, John Green announced a now-released podcast, The Universe hosted by himself and Dr. Katie Mack, which attempts to detail the entire history, present, and future of our universe as we currently understand it. While I haven't listened to the podcast be…
Why I Am Now Relaxed About Releasing Buggy Software
I am a perfectionist by nature. Releasing software in to the wild that has imperfections annoys me. For that matter, doing anything that is imperfect annoys me. Thankfully, there is this little thi…
What can LLMs never do?
On goal drift and lower reliability. Or, why can't LLMs play Conway's Game Of Life?
Exploring the Possibilities of Online Teaching a Language
Want to make money online by teaching a language? Discover effective strategies and platforms to help you successfully teach a language online
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The Death of My Heroes
In recent times much of tech has rotted and become predatory towards its users, now coined into the term enshittification.
Rocky Jaiswal - Why Kotlin?
Rocky Jaiswal - Technical blogs
Ollama with Llama3 and Code Interpreter
I try to run an experiment once a week with open-source LLMs. This week experiment was using Llama3 via Ollama and AgentRun to have an open-source, 100% local Code Interpreter. The idea is, give an LLM a query that is better answered via code executi...
Thoughts on WASM
WASM has this great veil of misunderstanding around it and I don’t want to try to remove it because in the process I might end up creating more confusion. All I want to do is give you some ideas and experiences I’ve had writing a simple library in C, compiling…
Note Taking in Anki
Exploring the unusual use of spaced repetition software in developing a high-quality personal writing and note-taking workflow.
The Moore-Nakamoto plain
A great tool to map and compare projects, and to analyze how advances in compute and crypto will affect them in the future.
Fully Decentralized Forum With 60 Lines of Code
Try it here: Bodhi Space Last year, I built a 100-line protocol called Bodhi, designed to store content and incentivize high-value content at a basic protocol level. If you’re intrigued about why this might work, you can check out the details here. Theoretical…