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This evening I went to another presentation at Chimära Bokhandel & Butik . The topic this time was Arthur Conan Doyle’s story The Captain of the Polestar and Polar Gothic literature.
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With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? ( Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it , but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on
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With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? ( Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it , but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on
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Cloud platforms have come a long way since Heroku first set out to empower developers. Today’s cloud native development demands even greater flexibility, openness, and scalability. A fun fact about Heroku is that we use trees to denote the generation of the platform technology stack (aka version). In the tradition of Aspen, Bamboo, and Cedar, […] The post Planting New Platform Roots in Cloud Native with Fir appeared first on Heroku .
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Over the last couple of years, we’ve repeatedly heard the question “who will build the Heroku of AI?”. The answer to that question is that Heroku will, of course. We are excited to bring AI to the Heroku platform with the pilot of Managed Inference and Agents, delivered with the graceful developer and operational experience […] The post Heroku AI | Managed Inference and Agents appeared first on Heroku .
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in the early days of the internet the web looked indeed like a web: many sites that intertwined. the lack of a central entity that governments can go pester is the worst case scenario for the powers that be. those days are long gone as user engagement has concentrated on a few centralized platforms, creating points of failure this is all old news. frustrating, but old news. centralization was driven by the prioritization of convenience o....
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tl;dr: If your app doesn’t store SoundCloud access tokens outside of the context of a user’s client (i.e. a database) the following should…
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The other day I realized that /tmp/ on my NixOS installations is not a tmpfs as I'm used to from other distros. Instead, NixOS relies on this systemd timer that cleans up old files from /tmp/. This is not NixOS specific, other systemd based distros also run this timer. Looking at the NixOS boot.tmp related options, we see there's an option (cleanOnBoot) that clears files on boot and is disabled by default.
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While this blog was silent, my life was buzzing with activity. I have been trying to tend to multiple big projects at work and in my personal life, like a juggler trying not to drop anything. Not everything went as planned. The blog got sidelined, personal projects lost momentum, and a couple of them are temporarily frozen. On the other hand, I managed to finish a big migration at work. As always, Murphy learned what we were doing and mot....
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tl;dr: If your app doesn’t store SoundCloud access tokens outside of the context of a user’s client (i.e. a database) the following should…
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While this blog was silent, my life was buzzing with activity. I have been trying to tend to multiple big projects at work and in my personal life, like a juggler trying not to drop anything. Not everything went as planned. The blog got sidelined, personal projects lost momentum, and a couple of them are temporarily frozen. On the other hand, I managed to finish a big migration at work. As always, Murphy learned what we were doing and mot....
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I agree wholeheartedly with Google’s Page Annotations being an absolutely awful antifeature, and recommend that others opt-out and/or protest the feature. I want to make a clarification that doesn’t invalidate your main points: Clicking annotations doesn’t navigate away from your site to a Google search; it triggers an overlay with infoboxes about the term you selected. It’s similar to the iOS “Look Up” option for selected text. It’s ..
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If the world is ending, I want to be surrounded by kittens when it happens. Sleeping Marty, JoJo, and Lloyd (top to bottom) Sleepy Marty, JoJo, and Lloyd (top to bottom) Welcome to November 2024’s Disappearing Moment, an inventory of my experiences. I hope you enjoy it. Podcasts Behind the Bastards : RFK, Jr. (Worth My Time): Grating hosts tell the tale of a degenerate boor. Nerdy Software I programmed my first beats at a Rock and Ro....
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Collect stars by solving puzzles. Two puzzles will be made available on each day in the Advent calendar; the second puzzle is unlocked when you complete the first. Each puzzle grants one star. Good luck! https://adventofcode.com/ last year: >>37777
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Advent of Code and programming languages. Epistemic Status : Not confident at all, but at least I’ll learn a lot. I love the Christmas season. First of all, I love Jesus Christ. I am hard-core Christian. I also love the music. I love the feeling, the way people act differently. I love the little things people do all of the month of December. All except for one thing: I ha..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Advent of Code and programming languages. Epistemic Status : Not confident at all, but at least I’ll learn a lot. I love the Christmas season. First of all, I love Jesus Christ. I am hard-core Christian. I also love the music. I love the feeling, the way people act differently. I love the little things people do all of the month of December. All except for one thing: I ha..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Advent of Code and programming languages. Epistemic Status : Not confident at all, but at least I’ll learn a lot. I love the Christmas season. First of all, I love Jesus Christ. I am hard-core Christian. I also love the music. I love the feeling, the way people act differently. I love the little things people do all of the month of December. All except for one thing: I ha..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Advent of Code and programming languages. Epistemic Status : Not confident at all, but at least I’ll learn a lot. I love the Christmas season. First of all, I love Jesus Christ. I am hard-core Christian. I also love the music. I love the feeling, the way people act differently. I love the little things people do all of the month of December. All except for one thing: I ha..
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Assumed Audience : Hackers and anyone interested in Advent of Code and programming languages. Epistemic Status : Not confident at all, but at least I’ll learn a lot. I love the Christmas season. First of all, I love Jesus Christ. I am hard-core Christian. I also love the music. I love the feeling, the way people act differently. I love the little things people do all of the month of December. All except for one thing: I ha..
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Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key = "GEMINI_API_KEY" , base_url = "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/" ) ## rest of the code as you would use openai It support basic text generation, image input, function calling, structured output, and embeddings. More info and code examples can be found o..
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It’s important to pause and reflect every so often to stay grounded and focused. So, each December I look back on the year’s events and summarize them in a blog post. And after doing this again this year, I realize that 2024 was one of reflection, gratitude, and exploration. I was fortunate enough to go on some epic winter hiking adventures with my dog Pepper in January before she passed away in February at the age of 13. Losing a dog i..
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It’s important to pause and reflect every so often to stay grounded and focused. So, each December I look back on the year’s events and summarize them in a blog post. And after doing this again this year, I realize that 2024 was one of reflection, gratitude, and exploration. I was fortunate enough to go on some epic winter hiking adventures with my dog Pepper in January before she passed away in February at the age of 13. Losing a dog i..
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One of my favorite hobbies is tweaking my website. I've updated the design countless times thoughout the decade (!) of this site's existence…
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Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key = "GEMINI_API_KEY" , base_url = "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/" ) ## rest of the code as you would use openai It support basic text generation, image input, function calling, structured output, and embeddings. More info and code examples can be found o..
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It’s been a while since I have written one of these. There’s definitely a cadence to these. That cadence would be something between once and thrice a year. 2024 will have to make with just one. I have spent a bit of time understanding the ggwave project, which allows for sending data over sound. It’s not an extremely complicated protocol. I think the most difficult part to understand is the Reed-Solomon error correction, which is still ..
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Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key = "GEMINI_API_KEY" , base_url = "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/" ) ## rest of the code as you would use openai It support basic text generation, image input, function calling, structured output, and embeddings. More info and code examples can be found o..
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This was my first “proper” weekend in the new place. Yesterday morning I met with a friend from my writing group at Himlen Är Blå Som En Apelsin - a really cozy cafe that is a two minute walk from my apartment.
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I just realized today that I haven’t updated VSCode on my Mac in almost a year. It turns out that if you install any program through Nix, its version is determined by the version of nixpkgs in your flake.lock file. To update nixpkgs and get newer versions of all your programs, cd into the directory with your flake and run nix flake update. It’s the pacman -Syu of nix!
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Happy Saturday! After sending off last week’s installment I finally finished up and published part 3 of my Nix-on-macOS series . This was sitting in my drafts folder for a long while and I’m happy to have gotten it out there. I have some more ideas for posts in the series to write, but I also want to start thinking about other series and topics I can explore. Writing on writing Always. Be. Blogging. (Nate Silver): Always interesting ....
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I just realized today that I haven’t updated VSCode on my Mac in almost a year. It turns out that if you install any program through Nix, its version is determined by the version of nixpkgs in your flake.lock file. To update nixpkgs and get newer versions of all your programs, cd into the directory with your flake and run nix flake update. It’s the pacman -Syu of nix!
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