Personal thoughts, projects, and discoveries
I stumbled across this post by Hamel Husain on Dokku and immediately wanted to spin up a server to try it. The pitch is simple but compelling: it's essentially Heroku, except you own the infrastructure. ...
I came across this fascinating paper documenting seven years of experience building and refining an undergraduate robotics course within a Computer Science curriculum, and it's packed with hard-won practical wisdom. Starting back in 20...
I stumbled across NiceGUI recently and it looks like a genuinely elegant solution for anyone who wants to build web-based user interfaces without leaving Python. The library lets you spin up buttons, dialogs, plots, 3D scenes, and more, all rendered directly ...
I recently rediscovered Midnight Commander and it instantly brought back memories of navigating filesystems before GUIs ruled everything — but honestly, it holds up remarkably well even today. mc is a dual-pane, text-mode file manager that runs beautifully in a t...
I recently stumbled across CodeCombat, and honestly it's one of the more clever approaches to learning programming I've seen in a while. The premise is simple but effective: you write real Python or JavaScript code to control your hero through dungeons, defeat ogres, and so...