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  • May 25, 2025 · Code · 2 min read

    TIL How to Run a Script Without Mac Sleeping

    Have you ever started a long-running script on your Mac, only to come back and find it stopped because your MacBook went to sleep? TIL a simple yet…

    #caffeinate#mac#terminal hacks
  • May 17, 2025 · Code · 2 min read

    Using Natural Language to Populate Segment Builder UI

    We recently won our internal hackathon by building a tool that makes segment creation way more intuitive — using natural language input instead of rigid filters and forms….

    #hackathon#LocalLLM#Ollama#qwen-coder
  • Feb 24, 2025 · Health · 4 min read

    Offsetting My Sedentary Lifestyle

    I’ve been wanting to offset my sedentary lifestyle by starting with bare minimum changes. (I will explain later why I only want the bare minimum). When the pandemic…

    #habits#walkingpad
  • May 17, 2020 · Lakers · 2 min read

    Losing My Hero

    I lost my hero— someone I looked up to since I was a kid. Someone who taught me that hardwork trumps talent because if you want to be…

    #bryant#kobe#lakers#mamba mentality
  • Sep 28, 2018 · Hobbies · 1 min read

    DJI Cinematic

    My noob attempt at a cinematic shot on Ditaytayan Island using DJI Mavic Pro.

  • Jul 2, 2018 · Lakers · 5 min read

    Wrapping My Head Around the Fact That LeBron is a Laker

    Today, I woke up to the the craziest news that LeBron James has agreed to 4-year, $154M deal with Lakers. LeBron James is a Laker. Let. That. Sink….

    #lakers#lebron#lebron is a laker#magic lebron#pelinka
  • Apr 5, 2018 · Code · 1 min read

    Handling Errors Gracefully

    Sometimes it makes sense to treat errors as part of an application’s “valid” flow of events. Meaning, expected errors should not necessarily make your code go crazy when…

    #error handling#result object#ruby#ruby on rails#standarderror
  • Mar 19, 2018 · Books · 2 min read

    I Listened to The Dispatcher And It Was Awesome

    I just finished listening to The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, narrated by Zachary Quinto. It’s Audible-exclusive and was created as audio-first. This means that it was intended to…

    #audible#Audible-exclusive#John Scalzi#The Dispatcher#Zachary Quinto
  • Dec 24, 2017 · Thoughts · 3 min read

    My Grown-up Christmas Thank You List :-) 

    Just recently, I showed my “2017 ops” to someone and I told her that I wasn’t able to accomplish some major items on the list and it’s making…

  • Dec 21, 2017 · Code · 2 min read

    TRS: Toy Robot Simulator

    A few weeks ago, I created a basic Ruby gem implementation of the “Toy Robot Simulator” problem. Toy Robot Simulator wuttt??? The scenario is that the application is…

    #thor gem#toy robot simulator
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