Why use HashiCorp's Nomad?
A Junior Software Engineer's Perspective
May 12, 20255 min read49
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Short write-ups on the cool little things I learn over time across different languages and technologies.
Keeping a Service Running with systemd
Recently, I created a simple Python server to control a Sky Q box and an LG WebOS television programmatically. The goal was to build a straightforward interface for someone who finds modern technology overwhelming. The kind of person who would strugg...
Apr 26, 20252 min read15
Python Data Classes
I recently took a brief look into Python Data Classes. From what I gathered, they're designed to create lightweight, boilerplate-free data containers. They're ideal for classes whose primary purpose is to store data and perform simple helper tasks li...
Apr 6, 20253 min read11
A Basic Local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Tool with LangChain
LLMs Are Stuck in the Past Unlike humans, who continuously seek, absorb, and apply new information, Large Language Models (LLMs) in their basic form are frozen in time. Their knowledge is limited to what they learned during their last pre-training. T...
Mar 22, 202515 min read84
My Takeaways from Andrej Karpathy's "How I Use LLMs"
Today I watched a really interesting video by Andrej Karpathy, a computer scientist and AI researcher who was a founding member at OpenAI. The video went into a nice level of detail in the ways that Andrej makes use of Large Language Models (LLMs). T...
Mar 9, 20256 min read26Bitwise Operations in a Domain-Specific Language
I have been working with several devices controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC). The PLC shows the state of these devices as an unsigned 16-bit integer. The integer value itself isn't very helpful and can even be a bit confusing. Each of...
Mar 7, 20254 min read38