Leo Robinovitch @ The Leo Zone

TL;DR: I build terminal applications (TUIs) like kl for k8s logs, jeeves, and wander for Nomad.

During COVID, my bored friends decided to read the entire Shrek movie script together one night.

I love Nicolas Cage movies.

Often, integration tests follow this pattern: Stand up a docker database container Run migrations against this database container Run the integration tests against this migrated container This can be done with docker compose as follows, using Postgres and…

It is your first day at the Machine.

I love writing a bit of code at the airport gate.

I cannot imagine how, with our primitive methods of collecting and registering traffic, and our tiny staff for decoding it, we managed to cope at all.

I’ve recently been dealing with some wrist/hand/forearm pain from typing.

I implemented a simple hash table in C when solving a problem in CS Primer.

The Linux Upskill Challenge is something I’ve been following on Reddit for a while and have been wanting to do.

WARNING: as per title, here be spoilers for Advent of Code 2022.

TL;DR it can be hard to obtain, view, and share medical images of your own body.

Here’s a fun thing with Python’s type annotations.

I work on the software team at Voltus.

Tidal Cycles is software that works on top of another piece of software called SuperCollider.

I have a standing desk, but rarely stand.

I made a simple live-reloading Typescript sandbox, similar to the Vanilla Typescript CodeSandbox but running locally.

Today, I fell asleep on the couch watching youtube and woke up halfway through a Rodney Mullen documentary.

This is a diagram from an open source project I was evaluating at work recently, and the subsequent conversations I had: Me: So their solution is push based?

A pannable, mouse-centered zoomable, HTML5 canvas template in React + Typescript.

Last month, I participated in advent of code for the first time.

This is a bit of an uncomfortable public post for me.

Today I spent some time learning more about how to draw with css.

Twitter bird - blue or purple?

I have been very fortunate to remain employed during this global pandemic.

Over the past year or so, I have gifted friends a few websites.

In the last few days, I’ve gone from RC in Brooklyn to moving back to San Francisco to currently sitting on a plane to the Dominican Republic.

'Chad, destroyer of worlds' - circa 2015 My second to last week at RC was first spent in San Francisco at onsite interviews for positions in the city.

In my third to last week of RC (!!!)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Mooninites This week, I completed Nand2Tetris project 9, wrote about Givewell, and continued interview prep.

Note: this is my personal commentary and this post is not officially endorsed by Givewell in any way.

Recurse continues!

I wrapped up Nand2Tetris project 6 and completed project 7 this week.

80,000 Hours is a non-profit that researches the world’s most pressing problems and provides guidance on how to make an impact on them with your career.

Concurrency !

This week, the hack computer’s hardware was completed with project 5 of Nand2Tetris!

Eat my spheres!

This week, I completed project 4 of Nand2Tetris, updated my resume and converted it to a responsive web page, and learned a whole lot about linear regression.

Update 2019-10-25: Added MLE derivation and OLS $ \sigma^2 $ I have learned linear regression a number of times with varying of levels of detail.

This week, I completed project 3 of Nand2Tetris, learned some deeper fundamentals of statistical learning in R, and wrote my first interactive thing in D3.

I have been learning about basic computer architecture (logic gates) and working on a herd immunity simulation.

I love docker.

It is day 3 at the Recurse Center (RC)!