Victor Neo
victorneo.bsky.social
Victor Neo
@victorneo.bsky.social
Building things at Perch Labs.
Python, Go, and bits of of Rust.

https://perchlook.com
Last year, I decided not to launch open camp as I felt that the market didn't require another coding bootcamp - even if it is affordable with its content open sourced.

After speaking with lots of folks since late last year, I believe I have found a new angle for open camp:
January 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Really happy with Tailwind 4.0 beta so far. Had to port the JS config to CSS config, but the upside is the ridiculously fast compile times!

tailwindcss.com/docs/v4-beta...
Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta - Tailwind CSS
Preview what's coming in the next version of Tailwind CSS.
tailwindcss.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:10 PM
In case you have ever wondered how a sea apple looks like.

Really pretty under this light
November 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Being able to stay patient in this world that is always trying to drive anxiety into us is a skill that everyone ought to practice more.
November 20, 2024 at 10:14 AM
And... here we go!

Candorship helps you build radically open organizations and communities. A quick landing page to get the momentum going.
We are live!
November 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Time to start building!

I am starting work on Candorship, a tool to help organizations and communities be radically transparent.

Will be open source + built in public, so stay tuned for it
November 19, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Summer Flowers? At Sydney Town Hall.
November 8, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Github Copilot Edit works very well for me, especially when paired with Claude Sonnet 3.5.

If you treat the process as a Code Review process instead of blindly hitting accept, you will find that LLMs do help quite a fair bit in the process.
November 5, 2024 at 7:05 AM
I do fondly remember reading Groklaw almost daily during the SCO lawsuits, even though I was in high school and don't quite understand all the details.

(Regardless of what Darl McBride has done, I do not wish for anyone to have to suffer from ALS.)

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4204...
Once Linux's Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 4, 2024 at 6:18 PM
The real game-changer for Macs is the fact that 13" and 15" Macbook Airs now come with 16GB ram by default!

That makes their base model an easy recommendation for most people now.
October 31, 2024 at 2:57 AM
This is... not a Steam Deck.

Instead, Beth Le has made her own steam deck using the mainboard and battery from Framework together with 3D printed parts.

It's amazing what Framework has enabled folks to be able to build.

Link: www.printables.com/model/105141...
October 30, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Self-hosted Joplin for my own note taking needs.
It was a fairly easy process with Docker Compose to get the sync server up and running.

Was self-hosting Standard Notes previously, but was sad to find out that searching within a note was a paid feature if we are not using the web interface 🫣
October 16, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Time for my annual browser switch; this year I am back to using Firefox on my laptop and mobile.

And I gotta say: Vertical tabs for Firefox looks so good! Plus it takes up way lesser space than Arc's implementation.
October 15, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Reposted by Victor Neo
A small nugget from this week's lecture on randomized algorithms. Introducing total variation (TV) distance between probability distributions to Alice, and Bob.
October 14, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Compared to the amount of configuration needed for Neovim, setting up Helix is a walk in the park.

Helix needed only a few config tweaks to get it to a good enough state for me to get to work 🎉
October 10, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Folks playing D&D / Pathfinder: what do you do with your dead characters?

#dnd #pathfinder
September 29, 2024 at 6:48 PM
This is a really awkward time to be buying a new Intel laptop. Time will tell if the ARM revolution is coming for Windows laptops too, which is long overdue.
June 1, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Wagtail has been easier to integrate into an existing project than I initially thought. Love that I can quickly drop back into normal Django views to handle non-CMS views.
May 27, 2024 at 4:21 PM