Lyndon Codes

In this post I aim to quickly go over how I built my own simple YouTube video summarising tool using a combination of a few tools including a call to a large-language model.

Recently a video popped up in my feed about a developer’s experience of coding with AI and why they were done with it.

I’ve recently been rereading short stories from The Complete Robot by Issac Asimov.

Large Language Models (LLMs, and what is currently being called AI) are incredibly divisive right now.

Model Context Protocol or MCP, is quickly being adopted as a standard for extending Large Language Model (LLM) based AI functionality.

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), I’ve been spending some of my free time experimenting with them.

Back in January 2024 I wrote a post about efficiently writing to S3 in Python that has become relatively popular on this blog (thanks to GoatCounter for revealing this.)

Recently I stumbled upon a post about the Chinese developed Large Language Model (LLM) DeepSeek on LinkedIn that I wanted to address.

Previously I mentioned that I use NeoVim as my editor of choice and updated to using Packer as a plugin manager.

This page serves as the third and final part of a summary of my experience with Advent of Code 2024.

This page serves as the second part of a summary of my experience with Advent of Code 2024, covering days 7 to 12.

I’ve recently caved into the idea of adding some tracking onto my blog, but rather than cave completely to the likes of Google Analytics, I’ve opted to investigate some minimal, privacy friendly tracking solutions.

This page serves as the first part of a summary of my experience with Advent of Code 2024.

It’s come again, Advent of Code 2024.

GDPR and specifically, the Right to Erasure (aka ‘right to be forgotten’) are tough nuts to crack in the world of Data.

As programmers we’re often taught to take certain things for granted, when it comes to performance.

This is a quick tip from a blunder I made when writing some Scala code using the AWS S3 object listing API.

Before Christmas 2023 we ran into an issue with one of our simpler data ingests at work.

So it’s two weeks into 2023’s Advent of Code and I have a confession to make.

It’s that time of year again.

As I mentioned many moons ago, I use the text editor Vim as one of my daily drivers.

In this post I will go into the first part of building my Gemini Search Engine WhichFire: Crawling/Spidering.

I don’t like software Mocks or Mocking frameworks in general.

This is the first post in a series about creating a search engine for the Gemini internet technology.

This morning I ran into a major issue with my Manjaro Linux install.

A little bit of a cryptic title but bear with me, this is a post about how when you build an interface, or any code really, you should consider the effect of your decisions.

I will be running in the Cancer Research London Winter Run on February 5th 2023.

This weekend, starting at 3pm on Saturday, I will be taking part in a charity event at the Geek Retreat in Woking.

Recently at work I encountered a Spark job that had begun to intermittently fail after a long period of successes.

With the basic Scala implementation of Wordle out of the way in my last post I thought it might be a fun activity to create a Wordle solver/helper in a similar way.

The game Wordle seems to have come out of nowhere in recent months and become a favourite among many.

Recently there’s been an outpouring of software activists or, as some call them, hacktivists, protesting the war between Russia and Ukraine.

In an old talk by Kevlin Henley he made an observation on an effective programming habit through the use of a vampire analogy.

Recently I finished reading the Mistborn book series by Brandon Sanderson, a fantasy series set in his Cosmere setting.

Recently, I was tasked with deleting a load of extraneous tables that made their way into one of our AWS Glue Catalogs.

In my last 2 posts I was working on a way to processes Nonograms in Scala.

Recently I received the final parts a new keyboard and I felt like sharing!

In my previous post I described what a Nonogram was and crafted a file format to use for representing a Nonogram and any clues/hints associated with it.

I love Nonograms!

It is a tendency among many people to perfect something before they think of ever releasing it or showing it to anyone else.

Having been using Linux exclusively as my operating system for development for quite some time now I thought it was time to catalog some of the useful commands and programs I use in the terminal on an almost daily basis.

Last night I was struck by a mini disaster!

Just a quick post sharing a simple bash script for sending your EBooks to your Kindle via email (using msmtp and mutt).

Recently I wrote a very quick C program to parse my i3 configuration file and output the bound keys within.

Digging through some old notes I stumbled upon the diagram I made when planning my home network during my last move.

Recently I wanted to refresh my C programming skills and was on the lookout for a library or framework for getting graphics onto the screen while doing so and I stumbled upon the Raylib library.

So in my last post I lamented that I was getting only spam comments on my blog after updating it with Staticman to enable comments so today I have decided to disable comments altogether.

Since 2021/02/27 my blog has had comments enabled courtesy of Staticman.

This is just a quick post on how to centre your mouse in the currently selected window on Linux.

The text editor vim is really quite powerful!