Notes & essays.

Programming, data science, and other fleeting bits of life.

2026

• Jun 02 The Mote in AI's Eye
• Apr 29 Levels of self-reflection for LLMs

2023

• Nov 17 Closed AI versus Open AI

2021

• Oct 01 Kinds of advice for first time parents

2019

• Jun 16 Setting development machines quickly
• Feb 26 Health of conversations
• Feb 24 Case for downvotes

2017

• Sep 07 First commit to CPython: What the timedelta was that?
• Aug 27 Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
• Apr 25 An optimistic view of the arguments on the Internet
• Apr 17 Debugging makes better scientists
• Mar 23 #TryPod
• Mar 18 Book Review: Cryptonomicon
• Jan 22 Styluses: the evolution

2016

• Dec 18 Download files directly on servers
• Nov 17 Explode out of your function
• Oct 11 Did you thank your node dependencies?
• Aug 27 Power consumption of common USB devices
• Aug 22 Rebranding of @first_tmrs_only
• Jun 01 Cyanogen with a broken screen
• May 07 Keyboards
• Mar 13 arXiv-title-fixer
• Mar 13 rsync-time-backup from a server
• Mar 11 Internet Calendars
• Jan 17 first-timers-only issues
• Jan 15 target="_private" proposal for W3C

2015

• Nov 11 Workflow with data
• Oct 03 Dollar family of gesture recognizers
• Sep 17 WhichBG - Locate your wallpaper on OSX
• Jun 24 Lovely forks
• Jun 02 offer: Easier file transfer over LAN
• Apr 25 seqfile: Generate sequential filenames safely
• Apr 06 Key-ncognito
• Mar 04 Wikipedia to Anki deck
• Jan 28 More readable PostgreSQL docs
• Jan 27 EXPLAIN Query
• Jan 08 Current time in PostgreSQL prompt
• Jan 06 StackOverflow data to postgres
• Jan 04 Tips and Tricks

2014

• Dec 02 Meteor and Bower
• Nov 26 Meteor 1.0 and Typescript 1.3
• Nov 24 Brains are JITs
• Nov 13 G+ indicator animation in CSS3
• Nov 12 Aiding Typescript's type inference
• Oct 12 Current time in the R prompt
• Jul 07 Setting up Kate
• Jun 29 Artificial Latency: A How To
• Jun 19 Hex colors which are English words
• Jun 08 jQuery via bookmarklet
• Apr 26 Flying SVG planes
• Apr 17 Software development is hard but
• Apr 14 Importance of law and order
• Apr 04 To the moon
• Mar 23 Just show me the colors
• Mar 12 Amateur astronomy
• Mar 12 Chanslate.in
• Feb 15 Swearing in the source code
• Feb 15 Spacebars: Meteor templating

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