Posts on Angela Ambroz

A letter to my past self # This blog post is a letter to my past self.

Metadata # Author: Chip Huyen Number of pages: 532 Year published: 2025 Year read: 2026 Review # Done!

Eternal question: Where is my peaceful bottega?

Okay, this feels a little bit like I’m basically working when I’m not working, but, well, here’s my write-up on what I read in 2025, as digested by a little bit of exploratory data analysis. 2025: The year I read 82+ books # ❤️ Here’s the full list on Goo…

Wow, 2025 really has been the Year of Linux Self-hosting!

Metadata # Author(s): Anna Wiener Number of pages: 281 Year published: 2020 Year read: 2025 Review # Hm, an interesting memoir that I consumed like gossip or candy - but am unsure if I’d recommend?

I now have several different apps to organize my self-hosted media: Plex for movies and TV, Audiobookshelf for audiobooks, and Calibre-web-automated for ebooks. 🎥 Discovery on Plex: really good # The UX on these apps is uniformly pretty good, with a few b…

Metadata # Author(s): Emily Bender, Alex Hanna Number of pages: 288 Year published: 2025 Year read: 2025 Review # As Weapons of Math Destruction was to the 2010s and basic machine learning, so this book is to the 2020s and “AI”.

Metadata # Author(s): Ian Milligan Number of pages: 208 Year published: 2024 Year read: 2025 Review # Note: Available for free on the publisher’s website.

Like many a data scientist, I’ve spent tons of time in Jupyter notebooks.

Updated: 5 Dec 2025 thing service replaces devices rating thoughts Movies, TV Plex Netflix, all the various streaming services 📱💻📺🎮 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ebooks Calibre-Web-Automated Amazon 📱💻📖 ⭐⭐⭐ Audiobooks Audiobookshelf Amazon 📱💻 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ News/blogs/social media FreshRSS…

For about 30 years, my grandmother used the same hole-in-the-wall shop to get her photos developed.

I mentioned in my homelab post that one of my STILL-TO-DOs was self-hosting LLMs.

In July 2024, I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and it had a profound effect on me.

One of my favorite movie genres is commedia all’italiana - aka, “Italian-style comedy” - aka, Italian tragicomedies with sharp socio-political edges, mostly made in the 1970s.

My boss recently called me an “Obsidian power user” and - how flattering!

Oh wow, this is handy.

Reading things later # In 2014, I discovered Pocket.

NAS joy # One of the few things that brings me true joy these days (!)

Welp!

Metadata # Author(s): Michio Kaku, and Jaime Green Number of pages: 384 Year published: 2020 Year read: 2024 Review # I always enjoy these essay collections.

Metadata # Author(s): Derek Beres, and Matthew Remski, Julian Walker Number of pages: 384 Year published: 2023 Year read: 2024 Review # A long-ish, engaging intellectual screed against the marriage of conspiracy theorizing and New Age woo.

It’s been a while!

Metadata # Author(s): Nita A.

Metadata # Author(s): Jaron Lanier Number of pages: 368 Year published: 2017 Year read: 2023 Review # Jaron Lanier’s brain is a veritable wonderland.

Metadata # Author(s): Darren Byler Number of pages: 150 Year published: 2021 Year read: 2023 Review # A disturbing and distressing examination of the currently-happening Uyghur genocide, and how it’s accelerated by modern surveillance state technologies to

Metadata # Author(s): Richard E.

Oh God.

I got a new job.

Metadata # Author(s): Reeves Wiedeman Number of pages: 352 Year published: 2020 Year read: 2022 Review # A brisk and frisky journalist’s account of the, indeed, spectacular fall of WeWork.

Hello!

Metadata # Author(s): Adam Alter Number of pages: 368 Year published: 2017 Year read: 2021 Review # He’s preaching to the choir here, but I couldn’t get past the long, looong intro on “addiction is a thing”.

Big changes in 2021, beyond Linux.

This year was personal laptop rollover year, and I was excited to finally take the plunge: Linux!

I began “learning to code” in 2014, where by “learning to code”, I mean moving away from Stata (a proprietary statistical programming language) and into d3.js, JavaScript more generally, and, finally, glorious Python.

I just ran: find * -type f -exec echo "{}" \; -exec awk "NR==26" {} \; Which I adapted from this StackOverflow post and, tldr, searches all files in my current directory (and subdirectories) and tells me what’s written on line 26.

A small, short tutorial today: How to convert those darn .webp files into .jpg?

Metadata # Author(s): Tracy Kidder Number of pages: 293 Year published: 2000 Year read: 2021 Review # Disappointingly Basic Tech Bro-ey.

Motivation # It is winter.

Finally getting my Pi-hole act together # I have been meaning to do something with the multiple (!)

Made this for an art class I’m taking.

People are getting vaccinated.

Overall stats # This year, I read 84 books.

Made some silly, amusing art.

Metadata # Author(s): Eleanor Davis Number of pages: 152 Year published: 2019 Year read: 2020 Review # I read this through once, thinking it took place now.

seven, +/- two Hello, world!

Metadata # Author(s): Ed Piskor Number of pages: 288 Year published: 2012 Year read: 2020 Review # An interesting, troubling book about very early hacking and phreaking.

One of my favorite songs (and performances), ever, seems especially appropriate today/this week.

Scorecard # Facebook: deleted 2014 Twitter: deleted 2019 [] Amazon: actively trying to extricate myself [] Google: dreaming of breaking up Motivation # Jeff Bezos has way too much money, and I am tired of giving it to him # Jeff Bezos has $200 billion.

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