Link Blog

Linked is a really excellent, comprehensive tour of the Thread class and feature of Ruby. If you're a ruby person, then this is as good as anything you will find.

Linked is an article about #dokku which is software that lets you run the equivalent (more or less) of #heroku on your own server, including a server instance from a service like #digitalocean. Very nice. Good offering to remember!dokku

Linked is a quite insightful article about good vs bad refactoring. What? Isn’t refactoring always “good”? There are lots of examples of bad ones here.

Kinda cool. Linked is a simple tool which formats a cv in one of several styles. But the trick is that the input is a yaml file which contains all the content as a structured text file that you can edit with vscode and version track with GitHub. Nice!

For you hardware hackers and builders out there.. linked is a very cool tool to docutment wiring in your robots and other devices as well as generate pretty pictures and even a BOM!

Linked is a good review of Python Flask and Django. I came from a Ruby world, that’s like comparing Sinatra to Rails. Very different and very related.

I think Richard Feynman coined the term “cargo cult” in the 70’s! More important is his description of the scientific process, and his high standard and description of integrity in doing science. Computer Scientists, does your research achieve Feynman’s standard?

Linked is an article about a feature in Ruby that I didn’t know about. I still think Ruby is superior to python in many ways. Unfortunately circumstances and “the world” and “time” has gotten me leaning more and more into python. Still when I next need to create a web based app, I can’t see using…

Linked is a service that generates quite respectable short promotional videos. I tried it on the syllabus to my course and it created something fairly amazing. I mean it’s still obviously ai generated. After your amazement subsides you may still not want to use it but it’s worth checking out.…

Follow the link below: I’ve been looking for a nicely packaged way to try llms locally, that is without using a cloud based service and without uploading my pi to another company. This tool is a good solution to the problem.

See attached info about RYE. Ok so I complain that python has so many different package managers, virtual environment mechanisms, dependency managers, and so on. Much to my chagrin, I recently read something saying, “whatever you do, don’t use poetry”.

Rye But, but, but… rye looks really nice…

Attached is a link to a macOS app Ui for Jupyter notebook. Looking at the screen shots (maybe they’re mockups, I can’t tell) it looks super useful and nice!

Another python “improvement” by providing a Rustlang implementation of a python thing. My thought: “if we keep going down this path, python will become no more than a rustlang preprocessor”😊

Attached is an elegant new product (at least its prerelease documentation) to “publish a book” to the web. I believe it will be a single license software product that you get to deploy to a server, including a cloud server. There are of course numerous ways of doing this but 37signals.com’s stuff…

Flourish is a pretty amazing tool. Can’t wait to try it myself. Just click on the links and try it out.

Attached is a really useful tool. Episodes.fm simply searches “all” podcasts, like a google for podcasts. It is really fast!

The linked article goes in depth about ruff. Everyone loves ruff. Ruff is written in rust. Everyone loves rust. I think that last part is weird. Rust is a cool and interesting language but it is also pretty low level. Sure, for the user, rust programs tend to be very fast. But for the programmer,…

Attached is a handy site for creating templates for boxes and other containers. There are numerous of these. But this one is pretty nicely done.

Attached another huge collection of resources relating to robotics. There are some other libraries like this. This makes it difficult when you are searching for one thing or another. Still I thought I would include this here because this is a goldmine!

The attached essay by Paul Graham gives his views on how someone can think about finding the right project to work on. Not a job but work that is their own. I love this quote: “What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're…