llimllib's notes

Here's a brief survey of the tools I'm currently using Computer Software editor neovim plugins terminal terminal software Browser browser plugins Note Taking Mail Chat Music Webcam Photos Video Computer I use a 14-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max that I bought in…

coding tools games travel visualization coding I didn't do that much work in the open this year, unfortunately.

This year I've decided to do Advent of Code in Gleam, a programming language I know nothing about and have never written a line of code in.

I enjoy this piece by Erlend Sogge Heggen which argues that we, the open source developers, ought not to freely give away our work because it advantages the capitalists and fascists that are leveraging the fruits of our labor to make untold millions for t…

An article is making the rounds about what it feels like to read a technical article when you don't understand the terminology Why do people feel OK putting a partially-assed project on github, but have a much higher bar for when they release a technical…

update: This tool has been superseded by pr-review, a similar but more powerful tool One of the tasks that I do most often is to review code.

I'm pretty happy with the retry function I've ended up with for my nba stats downloader: G = TypeVar("G") def retry(f: Callable[..., G], **kwargs) -> G: """ Retry a function call with backoff and print out the exceptions raised unless they are

There is a certain feeling among the developers of messaging software that if you want to create something worthwhile, you need to create a federated system.

A good user experience is only as good as the action it enables.

Last year I kept my advent of code log in a note on this site: 2023 problem log This year I wanted to make it easier for me to generate and share visualizations, and break the code into more logical explanations, so I'm doing it at https://llimllib.github…

Following a question on reddit, I got curious about how well golang sqlite bindings (and translations, and WASM embeddings) compare to using C directly.

To add to this blog, I type out a note in Obsidian; I use Obsidian with very few plugins. download When it's reasonably done, I back it up with the obsidian git plugin by clicking the "backup" button That backs it up to a private github repository.

I needed to figure out how to debug the git binary to figure out exactly what it was doing, and I thought I'd share the setup because it took me a little while to get going.

I write shell scripts that use terminal colors often enough that it's handy to know a bit about them, but not often enough that I remember how they work without looking it up.

Homebrew is a package manager which a lot of people use, and as software that a lot of people use, a lot of people like to complain about.