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Auto-reloading my Bashrc

. Fast-twitch config tweaking

There are little habits or structures you can add to your day which improve your productivity significantly over time. In the beginning, these changes may seem profound; yet over time you find yourself relying on them implicitly.

For me, both a Linux and command line junkie, one such ...

Valuation of a Lemon

. Updated 2024-12-13. Evaluate your stupid idea before the 100-hour mark

As a developer, my first instinct when I come up with a clever new idea is to start coding, right away. As I start dreaming about how no other company has scratched this itch, and how I’ll win a million customers, I start get dollar signs stuck in my head — but not in my ...

What every good blogging tool must have

. Updated 2024-12-13. Why can't we all get this right and move on?

There is a single requirement that a software developer needs from any good blogging software. Every software developer needs this, and no blogging software out there does it.

As a software developer, I must be able to pick up and use your tool in less than 10 minutes to ...

Family is Critical Infrastructure

. Updated 2024-12-13. Unpolished thoughts on family and society

Family is one of the most important forces in the world. Possibly, the most important. And the responsibility for family comes to you as soon as you’re ready to accept it.

Today, my infant child is benefiting from sacrifices I made in my twenties, when I was just as lonely and ...

Correlating 3D Models with Images

. Updated 2024-12-13. A brain-melting congruence between the 2D and 3D

While watching an old 3Blue1Brown video, I learned some fascinating things about image processing techniques that could potentially be applied to 3D modelling! I’m excited!

First, a convolution is a “standard” ...

Your music is bad, and you should feel bad

. Updated 2024-12-13. How one blogging tool missed the mark by a lot

[…] the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

Einstein, probably

Why is ...

Goals of this blog

. Updated 2024-12-13. Asking permission from strangers

  • Meet and learn from people smarter than me
  • Find people willing to give me money for making things or doing stuff.
  • Don’t say anything lame

Those first two goals compete, and thus should balance each other nicely. I need to impress you somehow if I ...