Eating Elephants
Recommendations on ramping up on large software projects while managing complexity and showing results, learned the hard way.
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A Public Slipbox
Introducing my slip-box: https://explog.in/slipbox/ . I take org notes in logseq ; which are then processed with a tiny python script & published using Emacs's org-export with an automatic Github Action every few hours.
Building Developer Tools
After spending a large part of my career building tools, I realized I had unconsciously followed a consistent framework for identifying and building developer tools. It seemed like a good idea to make it concrete -- both for sharing and collecting feedback -- leading to this series of posts. I've been tweaking this series for a few months at this point, and it's really exciting to finally call it…
More RSS Tweaks
Seeing RSS entries published in Recurse Center's aggregator made me realize that the links/entries being published in the feed were broken. This is an attempt at fixing them.
A shiny new expLog
I've reworked how expLog is generated to make it easy to publish by a Github Action, with a shell script to run emacs in batch mode to make this significantly easier. The RSS feed became a casualty of this work, but I finally got around to fixing it today, and I hope it gets picked up seamlessly for anyone who had subscribed in the past. PS. I've been publicly iterating on a series of posts on…
Advent of Code
A quick introduction to Advent of Code for those of you who've never tried it out; as well as vignettes of what I learned from participating in AoC 2020.
A simple neural network
Belatedly realizing that it's surprisingly simple to implement a neural network from scratch, particularly if you don't care about using it in production -- some developer notes and a snapshot of a basic net in roughly ~150 lines of Rust with minimal dependencies. (Unrelated aside: A Notebook Style Guide ( Slides ) -- a short talk I gave at JupyterCon 2020 was released on YouTube. It started as a…
An introduction to Panopticon
Panopticon is a Python tracer I've written as an alternative to using a debugger. Instead of manually stepping through code, I'd much rather have a computer do it for me. Since writing this post panopticon has evolved to include probes : which can instrument code you might not have full control over. (I'd initially written this post as documentation, but ultimately realized it's better suited as a…
A brand new RSS feed appeared!
This structure of this blog is almost completely maintained by hand: I manually add entries to the index page, often going back to edit existing posts, and several entries are perennial -- such as my Book list, as well as the syntopical collections on different sets of books. That makes it fairly tricky to automate an RSS feed: at the same time, enough (4) people have directly reached out to…