Testing out Absurd, an experimental durable execution system that uses only Postgres, for AI workloads with expensive LLM calls.

How I built deprecations.info using Simon Willison's git scraper pattern to track AI model shutdowns and prevent service disruptions

A simple cycling simulator that calculates the time it takes to cycle up a hill with a surge of power.

A short reflection on neovim's extensibility vs simplicity tradeoff

Documenting my first steps with Rust, from installation to running a simple script.

Learn how to automate the propagation of configuration changes across all tmux panes, saving time and enhancing productivity.

A few tips to be a good UNIX neighbour and make your scripts more portable.

NERDTree Bookmarks is a plugin that allows you to bookmark files and directories in NERDTree.

The Data Bus is a pattern that can help you tidy up data flows, and helps to keep track of the preprocessing steps taken. It is a simple, language-agnostic pattern that can be used to make sense when multiple transform steps are involved.

In this article, we benchmark various methods to write data to MS SQL Server from pandas DataFrames to see which is the fastest. We compare multi, fast_executemany and turbodbc, and find the best candidate.