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An experimental web log, and half an identity function. Notes on software engineering, programming, tools and emacs with the occasional detour.

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2022-xx-xx Eating Elephants*
2021-11-14 A Public Slipbox
2021-xx-xx Building Developer Tools*
2020-12-27 Advent of Code
2020-11-29 A simple neural network
2020-07-31 An introduction to Panopticon
2020-07-24 My Writing Setup
2020-07-12 No Ideas but in Things
2020-07-08 Notes on using Tmux
2020-06-21 On-cpu time with ftrace
2020-06-13 sys.settrace (and sys.setprofile)*
2020-06-06 Heuristics for Learning Tools
2020-05-30 Approaching Debugging*
2020-05-23 Planning work
2020-05-16 100 Days of Writing
2020-02-23 A Notebook Style Guide
2019-11-24 Always include units*
2018-12-31 Making Poet, an Emacs Theme*
2018-09-30 Many Traces
2018-09-03 Inserting Dates in Mac OS
2018-03-15 Kinesis customizations
2017-12-30 Photographing through 2017
2017-05-28 Building a binary for Android
2016-09-18 Simple plotting
2016-08-06 HTML to Org
2016-09-18 Setting up a new laptop
2016-07-15 Commands I wish I knew earlier
2013-06-17 Timestamps in Mac
2011-04-20 Interviewing at Facebook
2010-30-01 Hostel Collapses!

Projects

Slipbox A public digital garden.
Panopticon Python tracer for debugging.
Battery Metrics Android library to estimate battery consumption.
Poet Theme Emacs theme for prose.
Dot (files) All my shell configurations.
dot emacs A literate emacs configuration.
expLog The scripts that generate this site.
Instagram A photo a week for all of 2018.
Keyboard Layouts Ergodox EZ layout and a pretty printing script.
Defunct

Books

forever: The List, now on GoodReads
2018-01-06 Selected books from 2017
2017-01-01 Selected books from 2016

Tech Talks

Building Intermediate Logging, PyTorch Conference 2023 (Slides)

Tricks to push Python and PyTorch to intercept intermediate values in models.
ML Monitoring & Observability, Data @ Scale 2022

A brief description of some of the tools we've been working on.
A Notebook Style Guide, JupyterCon 2020 (Slides)

Recommendations for writing reusable and reproducible notebooks.
Android Battery @ Facebook, DroidCon SF 2017

More focused on Android with a bit more detail.
Mobile Battery at Facebook, Mobile @ Scale 2017

Where we open sourced the Battery Metrics library!

Notebooks

2021-07-17 How many toolsmiths should your team have?*
2020-10-xx A notebook style guide*
2019-12-xx Advent of Code
2019-11-09 Image resizing for Instagram

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