AI is stressing me out
June 24, 2026
In February I came back to work after a 6 week sabbatical to Opus. It has completely changed the way I do my job. It allows me to spin up agents which investigate code so I don't n…
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Why I re-wrote my Slack bot in Gleam
February 13, 2025
Introduction I started working on Music Monday awhile back. It is currently only a Slack bot which, when installed into a channel, selects a user at random to suggest a musical a…
Leex and yecc by example: part 2
December 4, 2024
Welcome to Part 2! In part 1 , we went over our first example of using leex and yecc. In this blog post, I'll lex/parse Advent of code 2024 day 4 and simplify day 3 using an obse…
Leex and yecc by example: part 1
December 3, 2024
Background Advent of code is here and every year I use a parser combinator library to handle the inputs. Lately, I have been into Erlang but I couldn't find a parser combinator l…
Setting up Erlang CI with PostgreSQL
August 7, 2024
Overview In this blog post, I'll quickly discuss how I got Erlang and PostgreSQL set up in GitHub CI. Additionally, I discuss how I set up single use databases for my test infras…
Getting started with Erlang's `maybe_expr`
March 4, 2024
Assumptions You are using rebar3 to build your project. You are using OTP 25. Introduction I am an Erlang beginner and I am currently building a Slack bot to learn more. Here…
First day with typst, a markup based typesetting system
March 31, 2023
I came across typst recently which looks like an interesting replacement to LaTeX. I don't really do much collaborative editing anymore, but I really enjoy plain text presentations…
Discarding monadic results in Haskell
September 1, 2021
Discarding Monadic Results in Haskell I recently ran this poll on Twitter . The original poll and results, I wasn't expecting much from this poll but the comments turned out…
Simple Scaleable Preprocessing with PyTorch and Ray - 0
May 20, 2020
Simple Scaleable Preprocessing With Pytorch and Ray Background I have been using PyTorch for a few months now and I really like the Dataset and DataLoader workflow (see torch.…
Path to Beginnery in Functional Programming with Haskell - 1
October 18, 2018
Path To Beginnery in Functional Programming with Haskell See the first post in this series for an introduction to this series. Quick recap: I am trying to track my path completin…
C++ Recursive Template Metaprogramming: Fibonacci Numbers
July 1, 2018
Background After a brief dive into Scala, I am back to writing C++. However, I do have a much better appreciation for functional programming and recursion. I am far from an exper…
Path to Beginnery in Functional Programming with Haskell
June 16, 2018
Path to Beginnery in Functional Programming with Haskell Introduction to the Series I have done a little functional programming in Scala. I tend to write short scripts to help …
Building Tensorflow GPU Images for HPC
January 21, 2018
Background I am an HPC administrator for Pitt. A common trend lately is users asking for the newest Tensorflow release the second it is available. However, as many of you probabl…
Free SSL certificates on Digital Ocean with Letsencrypt
December 31, 2017
Quick Start Important Notes: Using Digital Ocean droplet 5$/month tier CentOS 7 Apache (I am assuming this is already installed and running) May need sudo in front of t…