Hotchpotch: 24 Nov 2024

I've heard of the wall that runners hit, or writers block. It feels like I'm running low on ideas to write about. But then, that became the idea to write about. Not sure if it's going to be any good, but I decided to…

Solving for now

I'm writing this half-asleep so the I'm not sure how congruent this is. Was working on the browser today, mainly reading the response and making sense of the data. Splitting the response into it's various parts. Spent the most part of the evening yesterday…

No documentation? No problem!

Read a comment on Ziggit that just made my day. One of the things I've been enjoying while learning Zig has been that it's a fairly new language. This has some unusual and unforeseen benefits. Also I've been able to see first hand how…

Going further

There's a flu that has been going around, a few of my friends have it. It's not crazy bad, it's mostly feeling lethargic and I've been taking naps to help me function. It seems like the perfect opportunity to build some resilience.…

What's with showers and ideas?

This was hard to write, I'm feeling quite distracted and my thoughts are not very cohesive today. If I were you, I would skip this one. I had not idea what to write about today. Mostly because I was frustrated with trying to get VsCode to work. Yea,…

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

Not feeling a 100% today, so in order to keep up my streak of writing at least one line, today I'll leave you with one my favorite things to read every so often. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be…

Why I only use AI as a search engine

I still clearly remember the day my colleagues at work found out about Gipty. No one could believe what they were looking at, just like them I was thoroughly impressed. Can't remember why but it was almost another couple of months before I started using it regularly with…

Hotchpotch: 16 Nov 2024

Getting comfortable with Zig The news of the week would be getting familiar and comfortable with Zig. All I did was read the language reference, solve some advent of code and then do some network stuff related to building the browser. The reason I wanted to learn Zig in the…