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Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
A personal code notes blog
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What it was like working for Gitlab
I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years.
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A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics
A look at a Mojo benchmark for bioinformatics, and Mojo in general.
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Getting into robotics as a software engineer
Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted to get into ‘harder’ problems. Two years ago I started looking around for companies in Amsterdam and came across…
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OPML is underrated
The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud
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Extending Rust's Effect System
This is the transcript of my RustConf 2023 talk: "Extending Rust's Effect System", presented on September 13th 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and streamed online.
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All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
Welcome to the 2030s.
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Thinking about high-quality human data
[Special thank you to Ian Kivlichan for many useful pointers (E.g. the 100+ year old Nature paper “Vox populi”) and nice feedback. 🙏 ] High-quality data is the fuel for modern data deep learning model training. Most of the task-specific labeled data comes from human annotation, such as classification task or RLHF…
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How to write stuff no one else can
Last week, I wrote a piece about five of the key hires who took Morning Brew to $40 million in revenue .
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Spreadsheet "breaks" Apple Vision Pro eye-tracking
I am trying to capture “through the optics” pictures of the AVP, and it is unveiling both interesting information on how the AVP works and the second test pattern I tried “broke&#…
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Power of small optimizations
In this post, I will talk about the importance of small optimizations that can provide a lot of performance improvements.
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Postgres as queue
The team I've been working in for the last year or so have had great success using Postgres-as-queue. We've managed to avoid the following:
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Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before…
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Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations
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The scarcity of the long term
The chief hurdle in constructing a Death Star is not the energy, materials, or even knowledge needed. It’s the long time needed. A society can change their mind mid-way over centuries, and simply move on. The galaxy is likely strewn … Continue reading →
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Thoughts on tech employment
The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine has co…
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React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good
PR-007 - Why you don't need React - Thoughts and Ideas
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I accidentally Blender VSE
A bit over two months ago I started to contribute a bit of code to Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE). Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) Even the feature page for it on the website looks… a bit empty lol.
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Physics for Mathematicians – Introduction
A blog about math by Nic Ford
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Porting Libyaml to Safe Rust: Some Thoughts
The following is a loose collection of thoughts that came up while porting unsafe-libyaml to safe, idiomatic Rust, which may be useful to someone else who is considering "rewriting it in Rust", as the ancient journeyman prayer goes.
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A distributed systems reading list
An old document I surfaced with my quick tour of distributed systems theory fundamentals
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Lessons from a fountain pen addict
(Enjoy the blog? Please consider donating – there’s a PayPal button at the top right of the site!) Over the past several years of spending far too much time and money on stationery, I’ve learned a thing or two — about mistakes I make over and over, about what I like and why, and what […]
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How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
What is QUIC protocol and how does it work ?
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Context Control in Go
Best practices for handling context plumbing in Go
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Lamport Clocks
Last weekend I wanted to get some inspiration to write some TLA+ spec and I got my hands back on the paper Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events...
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As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production
America: The Ultimate Crammer
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A search engine in 80 lines of Python
In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.
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How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
I bought the camera from a profile that was created in 2017. They had some other things for sale, too. The account looked legit — lots of family photos and comments from family members.
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How to hire low experience, high potential people
Finding diamonds in the rough