Auguste Baum's blog

LLMs are expensive 2025-11-20 I just burned through $5 of OpenRouter credits to solve one programming task (editing existing code inside Zed), and it is not done yet.

I got a NuPhy keyboard 2025-11-19 I also got a NuPhy Air75 v2 for my birthday!

I got an Arduino kit 2025-11-18 I got an Arduino kit for my birthday!

How to save matplotlib figures deterministically 2025-11-17 I have been working on plots at work, and I would really like our test suite to use snapshot testing: [W]riting tests where you compare the output of some function to a previously saved version,…

TIL: Links in RSS feeds should be absolute 2025-11-16 So I recently got this site added to PowRSS, an RSS feed aggregator for Indie Web sites.

TIW: How do I get Nix to cache tarballs?

My ideal browser 2025-11-14 I love Qutebrowser.

Use unique email addresses 2025-11-13 It would be nice to be able to quickly create a unique email address for each new service I sign up to.

Meta will read your DMs.

Google wants XSLT dead 2025-11-11 Yesterday I talked about RSS.

Google wants RSS dead 2025-11-10 I really like RSS.

On the Works in Progress magazine 2025-11-09 So since I published TIR: Magical systems thinking, I thought “Hey I only learned about this Works in Progress magazine yesterday, like 3 hours before publishing the post.

TIR: Magical systems thinking 2025-11-08 Today I read Magical systems thinking, by Ed Bradon in the Works in Progress magazine.

Split a jj revision based on its history 2025-11-07 Has this ever happened to you?

20% Progress Report (1) 2024-12-06 Since May of this year I have been working as a software engineer at Probabl.

A very short introduction to Nix 2024-03-04 This post is adapted from a talk I gave at my place of work to convince them to try Nix for managing our projects’ dependencies and deployment.

Why you should try mob programming 2024-02-26 This post is adapted from a talk I gave at my place of work to convince them to try mob programming.

My mob programming initiation at Summer of Nix 2023 2023-11-28 This summer I applied and was accepted to take part in Summer of Nix 2023, a 3-month paid part-time job packaging open-source software with Nix/NixOS.

My first time on GTA 2023-06-27 A few weeks ago I was proven right.

A Weekend on Neural Network Interpretability 2023-05-29 This is a summary of my experience of the weekend on interpretability I spent from 2023-05-27 morning to 2023-05-28 evening.

Nix for Python, attempt number 2 2023-05-19 Last post we tried to make a Python project fully reproducible based on a detailed requirements.txt file.

Nix for Python, attempt number 1 2023-05-16 Disclaimer: This is less of a tutorial and more of a record of my past experience—in particular, I end up not reaching my stated goal for this post.