Snail in a Turtleneck
When I connected my business bank account to Quickbooks, I quickly realized that the revenue numbers were wrong. Stripe takes a bite out of the transactions before sending it to my bank, so if I invoiced someone for $500, Stipe would charge a $15 fee and then my bank would see $485 as the revenue. Continue reading "How to sync Stripe transactions to Quickbooks"
Generating pixel art with AI has mixed results, but I ve found you can improve the output with some basic heuristics. Last year I wrote several libraries for this and then stuffed them in a drawer, but since there s been some interest in the topic: here s how to make AI-generated pixel art a bit better with Continue reading "Pixelating images in Python"
I m working on a command-line tool that will require user login, so I wanted to have the flow that all the snazzy command-line clis use: pop up a browser window and ask you to login with known provider , then pass back something to the command line. Unfortunately, I had no idea what this type of Continue reading "Login via command line"
Voronoi cells are basically the shape you see soap suds make. They have a lot of cool properties that I wanted to use for image generation, but I didn t want to have to figure out the math myself. I found this really excellent tutorial on generating Voronoi cells, which goes into some interesting history about Continue reading "Generating Voronoi cells in Python"
This is a followup to my previous post on setting up big files on GCP. I ran into similar problems with Python as I did with static files, but my solution was a bit different. The right wayTM of running Python on GCP seems to be via a docker container. However, adding a virtual environment Continue reading "How to set up Python on Compute Engine"
I ve been working with some large models recently and, as a Docker beginner, shoved them all into my Docker image. This worked sort of until docker push started trying to upload 20GB of data. Google Cloud doesn t seem to support service keys for docker auth (even though they claim to! not that I m bitter), so Continue reading "How to get big files into Compute Engine"
Disclaimer: GV is an investor in Warp. Whenever I start a new Python project, I have to go look up the syntax for creating a virtual environment. Somehow it can never stick in my brain, but it seems too trivial to add a script for. I ve been using Warp as my main shell for a Continue reading "Using Warp workflows to make the shell easier"
When I was a kid, I went to a tag sale for kids, by kids where kids sold their junk/toys to other kids. I was wandering around and saw a shoebox filled to the brim with marbles. I went over and there was a sign on the box that said, 25 cents/marble . How much for Continue reading "Why market cap is dumb"
I ve been thinking a lot about construction. Taking a very specific part of the process, building the staircase: you find a carpenter and they build the staircase to your measurements. Generally your contractor will find someone with decent experience that they think will do a good job for whatever price you re willing to pay and Continue reading "Shoulders of Giants"
When I ve talked to people who ve attempted to make meme tools, they say that search is a really hard problem. This sort of makes sense: one person might search communism , another bugs bunny , and another we trying to get this image template: I was thinking about it today, though, and you know what? All of Continue reading "5-minute design: meme generator"
