tail -f thoughts.txt

Today for a contract, I worked on a redirect that checked to see if user had a profile or was authenticated.

I’m going to start a new series, called today-i-did. and what it is is a collection of the things I did and learned that day.

This is a busy week for me, not taking into account anything from my personal life.

In a sense, writing is nice because of the act of creation.

Maybe AI tools are the greatest thing to hit programming since sliced bread, and maybe they do drastically change the game.

Why did I decide to go to grad school?

Talking with friends about startup ideas In our community Tridev, we often find ourselves wishing we had certain software, or wistfully thinking about products that we could build.

Linear Regression Attempting to fit a function (a straight line) to a dataset to observe a linear relationship.

Eigendecomposition Break up a matrix into it’s basic components.

Yes, it’s true that I spend my days as an AI researcher at my current full-time job, but I’ve found myself behind in terms of hard AI skills.

With the admin views in place, and the placeholder admin view showing, I need models so that I can begin building out the CRUD views.

Now that we have our login flow ready, we are prime to create the layout for the application page.

Today I’m testing the login flow manually of my application.

Last time, we worked on getting the login redirect to work.

In the last devlog, I worked through adding a sessions controller, and a new method to log users in.

Sniff AI I am working on a piece of software that I’m calling Sniff.AI.

Today I started working through Essential Math for Data Science, an awesome book from O' Reilly that goes over the mathematical fundamentals most of us need in today’s AI-driven world.

While developing my big C# project for a local company, I found a hurdle I had to get over when developing authentication.

In working with the current project, I’ve developed my own little observable pattern from JS to C# with DotNetObjectReference First, setup your module to do something that requires a stream.

I’ve been working for a while now on a real-time eyetracking application for a startup in Johnson City.

The websocket server that I’ve been writing about in past posts will now need an integration point to continue testing.

Today I learned about how .NET wants you to manage cancellable work.

To implement the Websocket server from my last post, I’ll use WebsocketSharp https://github.com/sta/websocket-sharp.

For the first time in my 10 year career, I’d like to get into code reading.

I’m creating a background service that does some low-level stuff, and will be responsible for connecting with a client program.

Today I had to write some test cases for permutations of configuration-driven code.

Too many times have I been bitten by modifying references to an object rather than a clone of the object.

I’ve been doing a lot, and lately it’s felt like I can’t catch my breath.

Problem I constantly see things that I need to fix around the house, then go on about my day and forget to fix those things.

With the recent move to Dart 3, many applications out there are upgrading to take advantage of null safety.

In my current project I’m working on, I’m building up a React application.

I’ve completed my analysis of ultramarathon training!

I’ve completed my analysis of ultramarathon training!

Some things that I learned about from my most recent session: Julia Enums Julia has an @enum macro that allows one to define an enum type.

This is quite hacky, but it definitely unblocked me while working on FIT.jl.

What I’ve been working on I’ve been working lately on a new Flutter app for mom-and-pop fast casual restaurants.

Flutter Repository Pattern The Repository pattern is a simple one, you use a Repository to abstract away the implementation details of how to store and retrieve data.

On Balance I’m training for an ultra marathon in May.

Yesterday, I somewhat implemented the Chain of Responsibility design pattern in C++.

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Here is my solution to Advent of Code, Day 1: (def input (slurp "day1.txt")) (def elf-totals (->> (clojure.string/split input #"\n\n") (map (fn [elf-row] (clojure.string/split elf-row #"\n"))) (map (fn [elf-row] (map (fn [calorie-value] (Integer/parseInt…

I’m currently reading a book by John Ousterhout, called A Philosophy of Software Design, and this book preaches one central tenant: reducing complexity.

Working on a project that I currently have, I’ve found myself needing some mutual exclusion in dealing with some hardware devices.

TIL how to implement a routing component using Re-frame and Reagent in CLJS.

It wasn’t that long ago that I was listening to an Indie Hackers podcast about Supabase.

I did an evaluation of myself late last night about where I stood as a software engineer.

The long-running Isolate is a technique that I have used now in my contracting to run extensive processes in the background of a Flutter app.

Cracking the Coding Interview has many interview questions and challenge problems that really boggle the mind.

I have seen the end of coaching coming for a very long time.

It has been a very long time since I have posted anything to this blog, and a lot has happened in my life.