Never set up again: Nix on Mac
Imagine setting up your brand-new laptop in the exact way you like it with a single command. Nix.
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Why I Pay for Search
I think Google as a company is doing great, and I do support many of the things they do. But search isn't one of them. Here are a couple of reasons why I prefer using Kagi, a paid search engine. So much so that I have invested in
Python Packages and Scripts with uv
uv: there is more it can do!
Academic Conferences
"I'll be on Whova before the conference starts and cold-message random people like a cringy salesperson about why they have sushi in their interests. And that usually turns into a great conversation"
AI Everything
MCP, a vision for human and AI working together
Python Dependency Management
Proper dependency management can prevent software engineering problems that could result in scientific problems
Simple Ideas
That's high-school level math, but it's really the whole secret. Just do this and it will get you a nobel prize in chemistry.
R1 writes an essay about `Strawberry`
I was setting up OpenRouter to benchmark a bunch of different LLMs on some specific tasks we have at Nunc.
I noticed there's an option to chat with various models and it even comes with some demos. Naturally, I clicked on the Strawberry Test.
It got the right
I'm too lazy to blog “properly”
“Shit blog”, that's what he called it. I read about the concept on the blog of Henrik Karlsson.
a few times a week, when I felt too tired to do “real” work, I wrung the last fifteen minutes out of myself by writing something for what I’ve