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Nathan Friend

Remote Software Engineer at Stripe and cellist based out of Ontario. Previously at GitLab. Fascinated with building usable, delightful software.

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Running CARLA on macOS (with some help from Fable)

I took my first Waymo ride a few years ago during a Stripe onsite in San Francisco, and it blew my mind. I don’t think there’s any experience that so thoroughly floored me. (Though playing with GPT-3 came close.) I’ve been hooked ever since.

The model IS the backend

What if you threw away your app’s backend - the APIs, the business rules, the database, everything - and replaced it with… an AI model?

Useful things I’ve 3D printed

3D printers are ridiculously cool. There’s something about seeing a digital object slowly manifest in the real world that is pure magic.

GitLab Pages with multiple domains

I recently migrated the website you are on now from AWS to GitLab Pages.

Zoom light

I built a light that glows when I’m on a Zoom call.

I built a weird keyboard

I spent most of my free time over the last 10 months building this bizarre keyboard from scratch. It’s a Dactyl Manuform - a split keyboard with a highly sculpted design that is somehow simulataneously the ugliest and most eye-catching object I’ve ever seen.

Wordle Bot

Like everyone else, I’ve been obsessed with Wordle lately.

Herding Gits

Juggling multiple Git identities can be tricky.

It’s finally here! 🎉

It’s been almost seven years since Inspiral Web was released.

Capturing Alexa Errors with Sentry and GitLab

Diagnosing issues with a live Alexa skill can be tricky.