Few of us could live life without jotting down our thoughts somewhere. Throughout the years we have developed some sort of note-taking system, either cobbled together slowly by ourselves, or something off the shelf.
I use electronic notes primarily as they are more accessible compared to paper notes and can be backed up easily.
Previously I used a Word document synced on Google Drive. However, this came with several limitations:
Update: I discuss more on the measure of intelligence in this post.
Every decade, huge advancements are being made in the field of artificial intelligence, and each time we are amazed. In the 1960s we had ELIZA, a convincing human-like chatbot. In the 1980s, the world watched as Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. In the 2010s, the resurgence of deep learning completely transformed prior approaches in nearly all domains, from images and video, to text and speech.
Service Workers are a great way to add offline functionality to your app, as well as speed up subsequent page loads (especially with the app shell model).
I recently encountered many issues while debugging, and to save myself and others the hassle, here are some of the best practices I recommend when debugging service workers.
My computing setup is designed to maximize the state of flow, by reducing distractions and other associated cognitive overheads.
Recently I was trying to set up dual-booting on my laptop, with Fedora 35 and Windows 11.
I followed best practices, installing Windows before Fedora. However, on rebooting Fedora, the laptop booted straight away to Windows 11 without prompting.
The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) allows one to remotely access a terminal interface on a remote machine. In addition, it allows for capabilities such as port tunneling1, file transfers and screen forwarding.
The main reasons for setting up SSH access on my machine were to allow me to:
localhost)When working remotely with a laptop, sometimes we might want access to more CPU power, RAM or a GPU. VSCode supports accessing a remote machine, and if Docker is installed on the remote machine, you can even connect to remote development containers. This approach tremendously saves battery life since computation is done on the remote server.
npm update does not write updated versions to package.jsonUpdate: This issue has been fixed in npm 8.3.2.
Found this out the hard way.
Stuff I use, arranged by language/OS. Inspired by this article.
As a programmer there were a lot of version/environment issues I faced while developing with Python, Node and other tools. Some examples:
pipenv, venv and poetry are ways to manage different Python environments, they still depend on the base Python version installed, which is another external dependencyffmpeg etc.