Amédée d'Aboville

One of my favorite types of graphs of all time is Git of Theseus by Erik Bern, which shows a Git repository’s composition over time.

Recap: We’re on Zoombini island, full of cute little zoombinis, which are metaphors for group elements.

I was learning group theory recently, and it’s very fun, but it’s also abstract, and that makes it confusing.

For some reason, when I was a younger programmer, I developed the belief that I needed to learn Haskell and Category Theory to become a better programmer.

Disclaimer: I have no background in education.

Debugging is one of the most difficult parts of working with computers.

A blog post I keep coming back to is Patio11’s Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice.

Zoxy is an app that lets you type hugo.z, next.z, jupyter.z, or kibana.z instead of remembering localhost:1313, localhost:3000, localhost:8888, or localhost:5601.

I recently picked up 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer (based on this glowing recommendation).

I’m not too sure about this blog post, because I’m not sure this is The Right Way to do this, but I wanted to at least document my progress.

In part 1 I explained the PDQ library and its book.

In the previous part I wrote about compiling a C program to run in the browser with Empscripten, by using its -o output.html feature.

I love the book Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ.

I got into making a Scrabble game because I thought it’d be a relatively easy to enumerate the possible moves on a board and have an algorithm for finding the best move.

I’ve been playing too much Scrabble Go recently, the new version of Scrabulous.

I believe that reasoning about a program, and knowing where to insert “probes”, is a key part of development that can make the difference between “stuck all afternoon” and finishing a task on time.

When I got to the Recurse Center I wanted to write a lot of Rust, and get back into frontend development.

So I’ve had this idea for a while now that I want to try out.

Cargo is a fantastic tool.

Earlier this week I was writing some code that used a statically linked C library, and I was trying to use a default the library documentation used in its examples, DEFAULT_CAMERA_CONFIGURATION.

RC Day 3 Not that much to talk about today.

RC Day 2 Note: This post isn’t going to be as informative, more stream of thought/work-like.

The morning and RC itself The first half of the day was overwhelming because there were a lot of people to meet and talk to.

Ok, tomorrow I start the recurse center.

I was deep in a side-project rabbit hole.

Implementing a Text-File Parser with nom This is a cleaned up overview of what I did to implement at text based parser with Nom, which should serve as maybe 35% tutorial and 90% Live-journal, train of thought rambling.

The other day I found this post on the Domino Data Science blog that covers calculating a PCA of a matrix with 1 million rows and 13,000 columns.

Background I’ve worked for ~8 years programming a “full-stack” variety of systems, from embedded to React, as well as backend, and everything in between, with a fix of data processing & analysis.

This post is from my old blog.

When we build new tech, we focus extensively on the topology and hierarchies we use, and the effects of certain requirements on these.