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Arguably 3x productive: anecdata on LLMs for personal projects

Poets and Journalists

Test Driven Writing (or Test Driven Documentation)

In Practice: Turning an Idea into a Finished Project (A Case Study)

Turning 'Someday' Ideas into 'Today' Projects with Gemini

World's most boring audiobook: German-English text-to-speech

Project and task management with Obsidian and Dataview

Ray: Another way to distribute work in a cluster

Apache Druid: analytical queries powered by magic

2022#10 Readings 🇺🇦🌻

2022#09 Readings 🇺🇦🌻

Winning stakeholders' trust

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2022#07 Readings 🇺🇦🌻

Templates for quotes and recurrent tasks in Obsidian

Scriptable widget for Obsidian journal tasks

2021#27 Readings

2021#26 Readings

Data pipelines with Alloy, Take 2

2021#25 Readings

Docker replacements (particularly in Mac M1)

Setting up Kafka with SSL and accessing it with Go

JSON woes in Apache Spark

Centering and resizing figures in PDF export with pandoc

2020#14 Readings

2020#13 Readings

Modelling data pipelines with Alloy

2021#12 Readings

2021#11 Readings

2021#10 Readings

UTF-8 Issues between AWS Redshift and Apache Spark when COPY PARQUET

Guillotine: beheadings for your next online presentation

2020#04 Readings

Lakehouse: It's like Delta Lake, but not really

2021#03 Readings

Down memory lane: the Hive paper

2021#02 Readings

2021#01 Readings

Configuring log4j properties in Databricks (and EMR)

Programmatic adtech industry: where to?

Find-the-gap with SQL in AWS Redshift

2020#62 Readings

Send a bunch of URLs as PDF to a Kindle

2020#61 Readings

The RDD paper: introducing the Spark general purpose framework

2020#60 Readings

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2020#58 Readings

Databricks' Delta Lake: high on ACID

2020#57 Readings

Summary of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Running SparkSQL on Databricks via Airflow's JDBC operator

Does Snowflake have a technical moat worth 60 billion?

2020#56 Readings of the Week

2020#55 Readings of the Week

Blog details

Haskset: Deckset presentations in reveal.js

2020#54 Readings of the Week

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The Ticketiser 2: Now in Haskell

2020#51 Readings of the Week

Review of Finding Success (and Failure) in Haskell

2020#50 Readings of the Week

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Generative iris

D3 sitemap using a force layout and web workers

2020#46 Readings of the Week

Writing generative art on an iPad: Why and how

Multiline shebang with zsh and running pyenv under cron

2020#45 Readings of the Week

Blot/Painting p5js sketch

2020#44 Readings of the Week

Sorting myself out

Scratching my own itches: templating with motllo

2020#43 Readings of the Week

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A context manager to measure elapsed time?

2020#37 Readings of the Week

New Keyboard: Gergo

2019#36 Readings of the Week

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Blog Moved

2019#23 Readings of the Week

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A (section) of a map of the data engineering space

2019#18 Readings of the week

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LSP for Python and Scala

2019#13 Readings of the week

2019#12 Readings of the week

gtags (GNU global) in emacs for Scala

2019#11 Readings of the week

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2019#9 Readings of the week (x4)

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Apache Hive and java.lang.ClassCastException on start

2019#6 Readings of the week

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2018: Year in Review

Things3 Weekly Review mode shortcut(s)

Notifications from Spark on an Apple Watch (via IFTTT)

Modifying the agnoster theme for zsh

How does the 'in' keyword work in Python?

Coursier resolution failing with HTTP method 416 in sbt

Book Review: Work Clean

Using Processing from Scala

ClassNotFoundException for Akka logging

Scala eXchange 2017

2017: Year in Review

Want to play? Get a MFi controller for Christmas

Change the parameters of a docker container without knowing the docker run command used

Shading dependencies with sbt-assembly (in particular, shapeless in Spark 2.1.0)

2016 in Review

My portable Bluetooth keyboard

October Kafka London Meetup - Jay Kreps: Distributed stream processing with Apache Kafka

More emacs configuration tweaks (multiple-cursor on click, minimap, code folding, ensime eval overlays)

Moving from Emacs to Spacemacs

Ruben Berenguel, PhD

SyncTeX and pdf-view-mode for emacs

Cold Brew Yerba Mate

Using QGIS to create a custom map

Handling of exponent overflow in GNU APL and Dyalog APL (on Mac)

Picking up Backgammon

The Mandelbrot set in one line of APL

My Russian KL-1 Circular Slide Rule (and a small intro to slide rules)

A Slightly Better reddit Upvote/Downvote Widget (button)

Find Search Engine Rankings... via the Command Line

Just as Mario: Using the Plan9 plumber utility

Extensibility in the Acme text editor

Creating New Text Objects in Evil-Mode (Vim emulation layer in emacs)

An introduction to the magic of Google Tag Manager

Version Control: Started using git and github (and how to set-up a remote git server)

Editor Magic: emacs, vim, acme and the return key

Polishing a Shoe

Adding Notes to Emails in Gnus (in Summary View)

(Why) Juggling for Programmers (and other computer people)

Back to gnus (emacs mail reader)

Timeline of whatlanguageis.com: first Django project

Language Detection in Python with NLTK Stopwords

It's Not Only the Politicians: This country is completely fucked up

Aprende a recordarlo todo: el método del palacio de la memoria

The Mind Palace Memory Technique (or: what I''m watching on TV lately)

Learning to use vim in my iPad

Good Books I have Read in 2011: Perfect Gifts for Geeks!

Working on the go with an iPad, a Bluetooth keyboard and a 6sync account

Again and Again: Playing Go

Time Tracking Like There Is No Tomorrow (with Javascript and HTML5)

The Mental Drawer: Never miss an idea again

Using Gephi with Google Analytics to visualize keywords and landing pages

RTTI: 11 – A fjord day and visit to Ísafjörður

A Quadratic Julia Set for Iceland National Day

Ego Depletion: Go Eat That Chocolate Cookie to Be More Productive

RTTI: 10 – Hvítserkur

Using an Apple Remote with Mac OS Preview

RTTI: 9 - Goðafoss and Hólar

Anki and Language Learning: The Spaced Repetition System

Building Your Memory Palace Collection

Focus in Language Learning: Doing Two Languages at Once Is a Bad Idea

RTTI: 8 - From Mývatn to Husavik visiting Ásbyrgi and Dettifoss

RTTI: 7 - From Egilsstaðir to Mývatn passing through Hverir

Doing (Really) Nothing

Remembering Facts: Using Mental Associative Chains

RTTI: 6 - East Fjords, Egilsstaðir and Borgarfjörður

Learn to Remember Everything: The Memory Palace Technique

RTTI: 5 - Ingolfshöfði and Jökulsárlón (again)

RTTI: 4 - Two magic places, Svartifoss and Jökulsárlón

Using Taskwarrior Instead Of Emacs+Org Mode For To-Do And Appointment Tracking

Road Trip Around Iceland: The Index

Irish Gaelic Language Learning: Month 1 Overview

RTTI: 3 - Waterfalls and Glaciers

Hoarding Projects: Minimise the Trouble

RTTI: 2 - The Golden Circle (Thingvellir, Geysir and Gullfoss)

RTTI: 1. Reykjavik - the city I'd like to live

Focused Interview with Steven Pressfield

February, March and April Challenge: Language Learning Applied to Gaelic

Installing Debian on my Ben Nanonote

The Language Switch (or how my brain seems to work when learning languages)

Counter-examples, Converging Sequences and Giving Immediate Answers

A DIY Kirigami Notebook to Keep in Your Jeans' Small Pocket

E30DC: Get the latest gnus to improve speed

Don't Wait for New Year to Act on Your Resolutions

Do you Feel the Smell of Burning Wood? Pyrography Box Beta

Get into the Flow: Music Meditation

E30DC: A glimpse of BBDB, The Insidious Big Brother Database and gnus

E30DC: Using 'gnus' to read mail

Commented Version of the LaTeX File to Create PDF ebooks and A6 Booklets

E30DC: Writing this in Conkeror

The Emacs 30 Day Challenge

Focused Interview with Leo Babauta

Creating pdf ebooks with LaTeX

Creating A6 Booklets in 7 Easy Steps

Worst Connectivity Ever

Mathematics Poster: Dropbox, Scribus and LaTeX for the Win

Mirror Rubik Cube: It Just Looks Gorgeous

Keeping Up With Reading Research Papers

Overwhelmed With Projects? Declare Task Bankruptcy

What it Takes to Be a Winner? Embracing Failure

PlainText: Text Editor with DropBox Sync for Your iPod, iPhone or iPad

Sleeping Where the Sun Never Sets and Other Oddities

Cutting on Distractions

And e/2 Appears from Nowhere! (Follow up to 'And e Appears from Nowhere')

Procrastinating? Find the Next Step Up

Frame Switching and What Not

Shopping in Iceland

Iceland's Water: the Best Water in the World

Limiting Factors: Biology Enters Time Management

How Is Iceland's Weather?

Road Trip Through Iceland

Personal Development for Smart People: A Not So Short Review

Icelandic Waterfall and Rock Wallpaper

Eating in Iceland (if you are not an Icelander)

Winning Against Your Reading List

Things You Should Read before Travelling to Iceland

Get Yacas in the Ben NanoNote

Power Nap Via the Command Line in Linux/Mac OS

Ditching Ubuntu: Arch Linux in my Acer Aspire One

Which programming language should I learn next?

Linux is a time killer

Gym ball as office chair: review

And e appears from nowhere!

New family member and (photo)blog

Featured in a podcast

9+4 fundamental things you should pack in your travels

iPhone origami case diagrams

Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before

Leaving on holidays

Origami A5 (booklet size) paper inbox

Vladimir Arnol'd one of the greatest mathematicians of 20th century

Crispy apple pie (similar to the Danish æblekage)

On a productivity down

Tibetan flatbread

The command line PostScript swiss knife: a2ps

Life bookmarking and why it could change how you learn

The 100 most common words in Icelandic, automatically generated from Wikipedia

Doing your best & 8 tips on continuous improvement

My new camera: Canon PowerShot S90

Giving up the Forth raytracer

NGO volunteer deployment tactics

Installed Go in Mac OS 10.5

NanoNote ports: Yacas & 4th (Forth interpreter, compiler)

Linux screenshots made easy: Shutter & Screenie

Slow, natural, deadly: The importance of fundamentals

St. George: International book day

sed (stream editor) to colorise script output

STOP IT! No more idle browser while working

The 9 Best Programming Books I Have Read (so far)

Gcal the ultra-powerful command line GNU calendar

Another Ben NanoNote port: pMARS

8 reader reasons for re-inventing the wheel as a programmer

Power to the command line

What the 'Broken Windows Theory' has to say about productivity

My first port to the Ben NanoNote: gnugo

Approximating images with randomly placed translucent triangles, Take 1

8 reasons for re-inventing the wheel as a programmer

Unpacking my Ben NanoNote

Backlog filling

Sooner or later...

Love thy tools to maximise your productivity

Time management systems

Forth's "CREATE .. DOES>" maybe I'm amazed?

Learning Forth by working on a raytracer

Debugging with emacs+valgrind

CJuicer beats humans (and Unix's diff)

All hail... Steve Jobs and his iPad?

Part of iPad

Fountain pen ink drawing

Minix on the iPod: where Linux started

Cron, diff & wget: Watch changes in a webpage

Syncing iPod's vMac and Linux: emacs on iPod Touch

Gluten,dairy,egg-free dark brown cane sugar biscuit

Evolutionary approximation of a Christmas postcard

Retro on iPod Touch (2): ScummVM

RCS & SVN: Version control

SBSettings for jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch

Image processing history: Lena

Snickerdoodles

Abstract triangles in LISP

C code "Juicer"

iHold

More #SongsInCode

Retro on iPod Touch (1): Mini vMac

mg & Zile: quick emacs in the command line

Matjessalat recipe / Matjes Salad / Marinated Herring Salad

Copied programming assignments as cryptograms

Lime pie recipe

External rays & Lavaurs algorithm

Scribus for mathematical posters

Future in Mathematics

Den lille havfrue

Back from Denmark

Stranded at Denmark...

Why I bought an iPod touch

Songs In Code

fluxconf: fluxbox the graphical way

Infinite complexity

gdb & CEDET & ECB

Fading images in Javascript

Scribus+Latex in Mac OS

Whistle control your computer (Linux&Mac)

Quick latex-ing with emacs: dabbrev and skeletons

Screenshot via command-line in Linux

Lavaurs algorithm

Grain of sand

Teleworking in August

Old books' scent

Fluxbox backgrounds

Two weeks, still loving Fluxbox

Three dee

Gauss' grave

Acer Aspire One 8.9' + Ubuntu + Fluxbox

Cut & Paste

Wikipedian!

Siegel disk wallpaper

Hyperoid a.k.a. SDLRoids

Mathematical elections

Lisp raytracing, again

Levelling up

Wolfram Alpha

Light & Reft

How to download YouTube .flv videos

Trip to Madrid

Productivity enhancers (or time wasting avoiders)

Rasterbator: online posterizer for @home printing

Origami Flower-Box diagrams

Extremely useful (mostly free) Mac applications

Shorthand

How to do an (easy) origami CD case

MP3 to iPod audiobook: personal reminder

Nethack

Pasteli (greek sesame and honey candy) recipe

Easy paperback book binding how-to

Big fonts in LaTeX

TiddlyWiki

Douady rabbit wallpaper

Sightseeing at Carmona (Sevilla)

Quick PostScript Programming Tutorial

Procrastination: Causes and cures

"Make saturday"

Social bookmarking in blogger

How to create LaTeX booklets

My grandpa's doughnuts

Meat Loaf (and Jim Steinman)

Turkish coffee from Java

Fall School

Times a changin'