26 May 2025

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My 10-Year Bullet Journal Journey as a mechanical engineer

A look back at 10 years of evolving note-taking habits as a mechanical engineer. From ring binders to bullet journals to digital notebooks—what worked, what didn’t, and why I’m still figuring it out.

Deep Learning is no Intelligence

Here we are in the year 2025 and every company that wants to grab your money now peddles AI. Even most search engines will now start with some “AI powered” summary.

Unlocking Ractors: class instance variables

In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever be able to run an entire application inside a ractor, but that they could still be situationally very useful to move CPU-bound work out of the main thread, and to unlock …

Non-Negotiables

These are the principles I want to follow every day in my professional career

Train AI Models Offline on Your Own Machine

Want to train AI models without relying on the cloud? In this video, I’ll show you how to fine-tune open-source models like TinyLlama completely offline — right on your own machine. ✅ No internet required after setup ✅ Full data privacy ✅ Works with low-cost …

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp - Lisp journey

Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since a few months.But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed that Hacker News n…

Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names

I recently decided to compile a very large list of domain names for the German country code top-level domain .de. I did this with the help of the Common Crawl project which provides a free, open repository of web crawl data and web graphs for the last years. …

csproj is GONE! 'dotnet run app.cs' is Here

Get 20% off TypeScript on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/deep-dive-typescript/?coupon_code=TYPESCRIPT20&ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Subscribe to my weekly newsletter: https://nickchapsas.com Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will sh…

The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead

Also: large job cuts at Microsoft, high performers get more bonus at Google while low performers get less, notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code, and more

Google Shared My Phone Number!

When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Goog…

Avoiding reflection in C# in way unsafer ways!

For good reasons, many folks don't want to use reflection. Since .NET 8, we have a better way of dealing with this in most of the cases (when known in advance). But we can go the opposite: Make it even unsafer for a tiny bit performance!

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