Last year I wrote about nix and direnv as I explored the potential convenience of an isolated, project-specific environment. There were some interesting initial learnings about nix, but I didn't really know what I was doing. Now, I still don't know what I'm doing, but I've been doing it for...
I just did a fresh clone of my site for the first time in (probably) years. I've been using nix on my new system, so I was writing a flake to setup a development environment for the site with Hugo and Python. When I ran hugo serve, I saw all my content show up
OpenAI popularized a pattern of streaming results from a backend API in realtime with ChatGPT. This approach is useful because the time a language model takes to run inference is often longer than what you want for an API call to feel snappy and fast. By streaming the results as they're produced,...
I tried out Deno for the first time. Deno bills itself as the most productive, secure, and performant JavaScript runtime for the modern programmer
Disclaimer: I am not a security expert or a security professional.
Edit (2024-07-21): Vercel has updated the ai package to use different abstractions than the examples below. Consider reading their docs first before using the example below, which is out of date.
I started playing the NYTimes word game "Connections" recently, by the recommendation of a few friends. It has the type of freshness that Wordle lost for me a long time ago. After playing Connections for a few days, I wondered if an OpenAI language model could solve the game (the objective is to...
Goku has a concept called a simlayer. A simlayer allows you to press any single key on the keyboard, then any second key while holding the first and trigger an arbitrary action as a result. I'm going to write a karabiner.edn config that opens Firefox when you press <kbd>.</kbd>+<kbd>f</kbd>.
Karabiner is a keyboard customizer for macOS. I've used it for a while to map my caps lock key to <kbd>cmd</kbd> + <kbd>ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>option</kbd> + <kbd>shift</kbd>. This key combination is sometimes called a hyper key. With this keyboard override, I use other programs like Hammerspoon and...
I've starting playing around with Fireworks.ai to run inference using open source language models with an API. Fireworks' product is the best I've come across for this use case. While Fireworks has their own client, I wanted to try and use the OpenAI Python SDK compatibility approach, since I have...