Removing the First Line of a File
I usually use
Thought Eddies
Embracing Failure in Software Development
Exploring the Importance of Embracing Failure in Software Development and the Value of Learning from Mistakes
To write software is to experience constant failure until you get a success. When you start learning to write code, very little works, especially on your first try. You make a lot of mistakes. Maybe you copied example code to get started, then modify it to try and do something new. Reading errors...
Importing Activities for a Temporal Workflow in Python
A spot where I slipped up in trying to adopt Temporal in an existing Python project and then again in starting a new Python project was in defining a Workflow that invokes an Activity that calls a third party library. Temporal outputs an error message with a long stacktrace that I vaguely...
Disable Obsidian's blinking cursor
A post about disabling the blinking cursor in Obsidian
I wanted to stop the Obsidian editor cursor from blinking. Something like VS Code's
Cursor Introduction
Cursor is VS Code with Cmd+K that opens a text box that can do text generation based on a prompt. When I created this post, I first typed insert hugo yaml markdown frontmatter
Next.js Async Functions
The problem with long running code in Next serverless functions
Intro to TypeChat
First attempt
Warp: first impressions
I downloaded Warp today. I've been using iTerm2 for years. It's worked well for me but Warp came recommended and so I figured I should be willing to give something different a chance. Warp looks like a pretty standard terminal except you need to sign-in, as with most things SaaS these days. It...
Promptfoo and standardizing output structure across models
promptfoo is a Javascript library and CLI for testing and evaluating LLM output quality. It's straightforward to install and get up and running quickly. As a first experiment, I've used it to compare the output of three similar prompts that specify their output structure using different modes of...
Nix Language
To broaden my knowledge of nix, I'm working through an Overview of the Nix Language.