Archive

2024  31

August  2

I Have Two Friends an Introverts Guide to Not Chasing Friendships

2024-08-12 · 3 min · 

Goodbye Microsoft Hello Facebook

2024-08-04 · 2 min · 

June  6

Country Specific Consent Requirements for Photographing People

2024-06-29 · 1 min · 

Understanding Input Masking in Llm Finetuning

2024-06-29 · 5 min · Saeed Esmaili

Control a smart light with multiple motion sensors in Home Assistant

2024-06-20 · 3 min · 

Upstream Productivity

2024-06-13 · 1 min · 

Evidence That You Should Take Your Content Diet More Seriously

2024-06-13 · 1 min · 

To Chunk or Not to Chunk With the Long Context Single Embedding Models

2024-06-02 · 2 min · 

May  3

Excuse Me Is There a Problem

2024-05-27 · 1 min · 

Lessons After a Half Billion Gpt Tokens

2024-05-27 · 2 min · 

Lucky vs Repeatable

2024-05-03 · 2 min · 

April  3

Running Python on a serverless GPU instance for machine learning inference

2024-04-22 · 5 min · Saeed Esmaili

Prove It

2024-04-11 · 1 min · 

Can You Just Quickly Pull This Data for Me

2024-04-01 · 1 min · 

March  8

An Introvert’s Guide to Visibility in the Workplace

2024-03-31 · 3 min · 

Dealing With Surprising Human Emotions: Desk Moves

2024-03-22 · 2 min · 

Llms Shouldn’t Write SQL

2024-03-18 · 1 min · 

Effective Ways of Dealing With Spammers

2024-03-18 · 2 min · 

Thinking Fast by Preparing Well

2024-03-14 · 2 min · 

Optimizing Technical Docs for Llms

2024-03-12 · 1 min · 

Willingness to Look Stupid

2024-03-07 · 3 min · 

Alfred vs Raycast

2024-03-03 · 1 min · 

February  9

Fuck You Show Me the Prompt

2024-02-29 · 3 min · 

GROUP BY ALL in Bigquery

2024-02-28 · 1 min · 

Classless Css Libraries

2024-02-25 · 1 min · 

Color Palette Generators

2024-02-21 · 1 min · 

There Is a Huge Gap in Generative Ai

2024-02-20 · 1 min · 

Office Politics

2024-02-20 · 1 min · 

A Rant on Arc Search

2024-02-18 · 2 min · 

Migrating From Gatsby to Hugo

2024-02-17 · 6 min · Saeed Esmaili

Spot the Difference

2024-02-16 · 2 min · 

2023  12

December  1

Hand-drawn xkcd style charts with matplotlib

2023-12-09 · 2 min · Saeed Esmaili

October  1

Why you should try Alfred

2023-10-26 · 5 min · Saeed Esmaili

September  2

Getting started with developing browser extensions

2023-09-25 · 8 min · Saeed Esmaili

Topic Classification of Texts Locally Using BERTopic

2023-09-12 · 7 min · Saeed Esmaili

July  3

Text Chunking and Headings Grouping: A Guide to Parsing Documents with Pandoc and Python

2023-07-08 · 7 min · Saeed Esmaili

Demystifying Text Data with the unstructured Python Library (+alternatives)

2023-07-05 · 6 min · Saeed Esmaili

Generating text embeddings locally using sentence-transformers

2023-07-02 · 4 min · Saeed Esmaili

June  3

TIL: Simplifying URL Parsing with Python’s urlparse Library

2023-06-25 · 2 min · Saeed Esmaili

Exploring OpenAI’s Whisper with Non-English Voices

2023-06-21 · 6 min · Saeed Esmaili

Cleaning up incorrect and duplicates in a 1password account using its CLI

2023-06-09 · 3 min · Saeed Esmaili

March  2

Why do we need to have a central place for TODOs

2023-03-26 · 5 min · Saeed Esmaili

What I dislike about Google Docs (and what I like about it)

2023-03-14 · 3 min · Saeed Esmaili