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On Turning 25

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear friend, Happy Birthday to you! May your day be filled with joy, laughter, and all the things that make you happiest. Enjoy your special day! - ChatGPT I'm glad to be turning 25. The past few years

2023: Reflections and Looking Forward

Follow up on "My 2022 In Review". January Being in the software industry, I must consider the relationship of my work to the launch timeline of ChatGPT. In January we all had about one (1) month of experience using ChatGPT and many people were already calling it a

Book Review: The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel "The Remains of the Day" is an instant favorite of mine. In the book, Ishiguro explores concepts such as duty, vocational passion, and love. It is a powerfully sad story. Having read the book, I have noticed a marked decrease in how

thornewolf.dev charter

I've finally solidified on a purpose for my *.dev domain https://www.thornewolf.dev/. It is to provide an experience similar to Simon Willison's til.* domain. I found myself looking for a way of publication that is more formal than Twitter, but less formal than publishing

Placing Marbles Into Buckets - Expected Max Marbles

This question is inspired by an estimation problem I noticed in the workplace. We wanted to predict the QPS our service needs to support when client requests are rare but come in bursts when they do arrive. Problem Statement We have N marbles and M buckets. Randomly and uniformly distribute

A Proposed Design for an LLM-Powered Text-Based MMORPG

In this writeup I will specify a few high level components that I think would be crucial for implementing an LLM-powered Text-Based MMORPG. I will identify what I consider to be the key architectural components for building a system that can support an arbitrary number of players interacting within this

Personal Dictionary Webapp

I was talking with my friend, Adam Bignell a few days ago about his reading habits. He likes to keep tracks of words that he learns while reading using an Evernote document. Hearing this, I thought to myself that it would be great if there was a dedicated tool to

Generated UI Library & Website

LLM-enabled workflows are here and they will only become more relevant in the years to come. To explore the power behind GPT-powered software development, I gave myself a challenge. How quickly can I build a website with content entirely generated by GPT? Meet getbrutalui.com HTML+Tailwind component libraries are

Python make altinstall fails

Follow: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1047445/altinstall-error

How to Configure Prettier + TailwindCSS + Jinja in VSCode

Create .prettierrc.json { "overrides": [ { "files": "**/*.jinja", "options": { "parser": "jinja-template" } } ], "plugins": ["prettier-plugin-jinja-template", "prettier-plugin-tailwindcss"] } Run following command npm install -D prettier prettier-plugin-tailwindcss prettier-plugin-jinja-template Ensure VSCode Prettier plugin is installed: Test formatting works with: npx