Managing Multiple Tool Versions with Nix
This post is extremely similar to nix flakes and direnv. Here, I repeated my process, but with a little more thought and a little less language model magic.
Thought Eddies
Nix Channels and the Linux Builder
I was following this guide to setup nix-darwin on a new Mac when I ran into an issue following the section about cross-compiling Linux binaries. I put this issue to the side when I first encountered it because I was trying to setup dependency management for my new system and this problem didn't...
Nix and Direnv with Flakes
Last year I wrote about nix and direnv as I explored the potential convenience of an isolated, project-specific environment. There were some interesting initial learnings about nix, but I didn't really know what I was doing. Now, I still don't know what I'm doing, but I've been doing it for...
Fresh Hugo Setup
I just did a fresh clone of my site for the first time in (probably) years. I've been using nix on my new system, so I was writing a flake to setup a development environment for the site with Hugo and Python. When I ran hugo serve, I saw all my content show up
Language Model Streaming With SSE
OpenAI popularized a pattern of streaming results from a backend API in realtime with ChatGPT. This approach is useful because the time a language model takes to run inference is often longer than what you want for an API call to feel snappy and fast. By streaming the results as they're produced,...
Intro to Deno
I tried out Deno for the first time. Deno bills itself as the most productive, secure, and performant JavaScript runtime for the modern programmer
Sandboxed Python Environment
Disclaimer: I am not a security expert or a security professional.
Using Vercel's AI SDK to stream responses from different language models
Edit (2024-07-21): Vercel has updated the ai package to use different abstractions than the examples below. Consider reading their docs first before using the example below, which is out of date.
Fine-tuning gpt-3.5-turbo to learn to play "Connections"
I started playing the NYTimes word game "Connections" recently, by the recommendation of a few friends. It has the type of freshness that Wordle lost for me a long time ago. After playing Connections for a few days, I wondered if an OpenAI language model could solve the game (the objective is to...
Using My Full Keyboard as an App Launcher with Goku Simultaneous Layers (Simlayer)
Goku has a concept called a simlayer. A simlayer allows you to press any single key on the keyboard, then any second key while holding the first and trigger an arbitrary action as a result. I'm going to write a karabiner.edn config that opens Firefox when you press <kbd>.</kbd>+<kbd>f</kbd>.