Why use HashiCorp's Nomad?
A Junior Software Engineer's Perspective
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Today I Learned
Short write-ups on the cool little things I learn over time across different languages and technologies.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Bitwise 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...