A squeaky nail, or the wheel that sticks out
There are two proverbs which describe a similar behavior but result in polar opposite consequences and ultimately have very different morals:
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Vibe Coding without worry or care
Without a worry At this point in time, Vibe Coding is probably even past the hype cycle. Just describing to cursor what you want to do and having the editor generally get it right has been extremely liberating for me and many people. My drive to build things in software had waned, mainly because setting up new projects tended to be a lot of busywork. But with Cursor those pieces of busywork are…
Pilgrimages to SF and the valley
I was listening to the most recent episode of Acquired about the founding story of Facebook/Meta, where they discussed a trip that Mark Zuckerberg took to Silicon Valley during the Christmas break just before he started writing the first code for Facebook. David (the podcast host) describes it briefly as
Running LLaVA on iOS With llama.cpp and TinyLlama
I got LLaVA to run on iOS by re-running training using TinyLlama as the base model and llama.cpp for inference. The UI is janky, but I learned a lot getting it to run on device. While there are a lot of projects that run various LLMs on mobile, I think there are only a few that allow images as an input (and I think there weren’t any when I started on this project). Check it out on GitHub. A huge…
Understanding is not binary because problems are multi-dimensional
In the past, I’ve been guilty of assuming that I understand someone’s problem. “Got it, what about if you….” I’ve said, cutting the other person off mid-sentence while silently congratulating myself for saving the other person from the burden of speaking their mind. I cringe when I think about times when I’ve done this, and I try not to do this any more.
🍳 Vegetarian Bolognese
A simple mushroom based bolognese, with lots of depth.
🍳 Adam Ragusea’s Roasted Tomato Sauce
Adam Ragusea’s Roasted Tomato Sauce is a super simple and quick recipe to make a tomato sauce that takes no effort at all. The only thing to watch out for is burning yourself. As someone who rarely uses a kitchen towel to grasp pans, this one has burned me a couple times (literally).
🍳 Jacques Pépin’s Chili con ‘carne’
Jacque Pépin’s Chili con Carne minus the carne. This recipe’s almost comically easy.
🍳 Bon Appétit’s Pasta e Ceci
I stole this from Bon Appetit. Super delicious, comforting, very forgiving, with a silky texture that is unlike other pasta recipes I’ve made (probably due to the crushed chickpeas).
Googling for answers costs you time
When I’m learning a new language, I tend to take a very dumb approach (and I don’t mean that in some enlightened way). I’ll usually try out a tutorial or two, but if the language is similar to another language that I know, I’ll basically just start coding without investing a lot of time learning the language features. This leads me to often googling how to do extremely basic things. Stuff like…