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The Wonderful LLMs

Praise for ChatGPT after one year of use.

Computing Cultural Literacy

What every programmer needs to know.

Infinite AMA

A ChatGPT that answers questions just like me.

Create an email newsletter from an RSS feed with Modal

I built an automated email newsletter feature for my blog. Learn how to set it up for yourself.

A 3-piece Masterclass on technical writing

And this info-tainment doesn't even cost $30 a month.

2022 Wrapped

Reading, moving, and goals for 2023.

Create a personal dashboard with Modal webhooks

Learn how to add live stats to your static personal website, integrating with Spotify, Goodreads, and Github.

The first 99,999 writes are free: Or, why lazy StringIO.write() may sprint into a memmove wall

Debugging a Python StringIO performance oddity for fun and practice.

Supporting GPU-accelerated Machine Learning with Kubernetes and Nix

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble — well, sometimes it is.

ddiaflashcards.com - Flashcards for Designing Data Intensive Applications

Releasing a study deck for a much loved software textbook.

The Books I Read - 2021

The 38 books I read in our second COVID-19 year (with some reviews).

From Data Engineer to SysAdmin: Put down the K8s cluster, your pipelines can run without it

Big Data meets Big Container, and now no one is getting anything done.