The wonderful folks at Refactr.Tech were kind to feature me as their Community Voice this month! It was such a nice little birthday present.
Check out some of the things I've been watching and thinking about lately.
https://templates.aiven.io runs render engine!
It reminds me that I made render engine to generate HTML a website at my job 9 years ago. I've been building little sites with it for years, but this is the first time I made a thing my job "adopted" it with render-engine being the underlying tech building it!
It feels good to know that the code I wrote/contributed with awesome folks it being used by people all over the world and people are using it to make actual business decisions. 🤩
I spoke with with Kristiyan Ivanov of BetterDB, the Valkey and Redis observability tool. Kristiyan is a regular contributor to the Valkey community and the ecosystem of tooling being built around it.
We're moving Black Python Devs to Django.
I'm giving up ownership of my longest running project.
New Short and probably the start of a series I'm calling "What is wrong with this plant"?
This plant has edema and I don't know how to fix it because it's not over/under watered IMHO. I literally almost believe that it's just the nature of the plant.
DevRel isn't cooked but I'm starting to think it's no longer cooking either.
I’ve been wanting to talk about the fun I’m having with strudel (and the things I made for it). But work has been asking me to work on things I’m really enjoying.
I may post a few things on here that are work related but it’s because I’m having fun with them and I’d love feedback from amazing friends that are smarter than me.
Claude used something I was working on for work as a suggestion to tie into a new thing. I got mad and I'm trying to better understand why.
The suggestion wasn't a terrible one but at the same time, the fact that it's using my chat history to make suggestions tells me that it's collecting and connecting more information that I want it to.
Nah.... don't do that. Local models the second they are good enough (and fast enough).
inspired by [Glossing's 10-minute tutorial] ```strudel setcpm(133/4) let kick = s("bd").bank("ace").room(0.3).set.out(` >*8`) let snare = s("rim").bank("bossdr550").set.out(`*8`).att(0.04) let...
This all started on the thought of a signle note with some LFO and FM modulation. Inspired by the tutorial from: * Glossring Modulation Tutorial: * Dan Gorelick's TidalCycles Session: ```strudel...
I love the little twingly thing that the arp does. I didn't do any arrangement stuff as that feels a little advanced still. ```strudel setcpm(165/4) _$drums: stack( s("bd").beat("0,5?,7?", 8),...
In July I ran a fundraising campaign for [Black Python Devs](https://blackpythondevs.com) with a deliberately small ask: _$7, from 7 different people, every day, for 31 days._ The goal was $1,519...
Aiven is giving me more freedom to write. This time in prep for my workshop tomorrow I wrote about how I ingested the MICHELIN guide data and showed how I could explore the dataset with PG Studio.
What things would you like me to write about in an official capacity (or maybe an unofficial one)?
I wrote this post on the Aiven Blog because genuinely when someone asks me "Is PGVector enough", I'm almost certain they haven't considered their architecture and are looking for a simple solution. Sorry, but I don't think PGVector is that simple solution but it is a darn good one.