Blogs about Development

ALTView on TwitterThe end of Twitter botsTwitter is removing the free API access, which will have the inevitable consequence of driving most twitter bots into extinction. I’ve written a fair bit about art bots over …

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1 You are given an array of integers. Write a script to print 1 if there are THREE …

When I set out to build a history module for my bashrc/profile, the dearth of code re-use and collaborative ~unixy modularity struck me as a little sad. I knew early on that I wanted to …

In my position I often upgrade at least one machine to the new MacOS immediately on the first day of its release to begin smoke testing our development environments and to ensure that all tooling …

Today I want to try to think about the decentralized version of this program, why I like it so much, despite that it is clearly harder to understand.

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (March 13, 2023 - March 19, 2023) As long as I continue to see layoffs, I will …

A specter is haunting the Linux community. Where lies productive discourse about operating systems, there also lies a danger. For the longer such discourse lasts, the greater the risk that the discourse shall be interrupted …

In Part 6 of our series, we structured a theoretical discussion regarding the devices, how they communicate, and the hardware elements that enable this. Another very interesting folder that we come across during our investigation …

I wanted a really simple stand reminder app in my system tray to remind me to stand up once in a while while working at my standing desk. (I started getting lazy and sitting most …

LAVIS I mentioned last week that I was trying out LAVIS, but that the Ubuntu machine I was running it on died. I spend some time reinstalling and now have a bit to share. It’s …

A popular nightmare scenario for AI is giving it access to tools, so it can make API calls and execute its own code and generally break free of the constraints of its initial environment. Let's …

Recently I got to thinking about the electronic devices I use regularly and love. I realized that many of the devices I enjoy using are by many people’s standards pretty old for electronics. I’ve always …

I share a digital calendar with my wife. My mind is like a sieve and if it’s not in our shared calendar it probably does not happen. Our calendar is synced with my phone and …

One of the most interesting aspects of SwiftUI, at least from an architectural perspective, is how it essentially treats views as data. After all, a SwiftUI view isn’t a direct representation of the pixels that …

Without counting it out, try to guess in your head how many app ideas you have written down. Or, better yet - how does your ~Documents/Side Projects folder look these days? Lots of Xcode projects …

I work in machine learning and read about it a lot, but ChatGPT still feels like it came out of nowhere. So I’ve been trying to understand the hype. I’m interested in what its impact …

Are you ready to level up your productivity? In this blog post, we’ll explore ChatGPT , a powerful and user-friendly language model that can generate Java functions and classes from textual descriptions thus helping you …

No one knows the whole story of the fictional characters Uri and Nanje Gowda. These fictional characters are the highlights of this election season in Karnataka. So I asked ChatGPT to generate a fictional story …

The Agrarianism and Revolution Reading Group met weekly for the duration of the Delfina Foundation’s 2022 Politics of Food Programme. Organised by myself and fellow resident Åsa Sonjasdotter, the impetus for the group came from …

It’s autumn. What’s been going on since I last wrote? Teaching at UAL-CCI I wrapped up a term of teaching a single module at UAL’s Creative Computing Institute. Sound and Image Processing is a module …