sayan
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eager software engineer, reluctant prompt engineer · sayan.page
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7yo: Dad can we go to Shake Shack for dinner?
Me: No, we just went there on Monday
7yo: Pleeeeease
Me: No, we're not going to do that
7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this
Me: Who taught you that?
Me: No, we just went there on Monday
7yo: Pleeeeease
Me: No, we're not going to do that
7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this
Me: Who taught you that?
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
7yo: Dad can we go to Shake Shack for dinner?
Me: No, we just went there on Monday
7yo: Pleeeeease
Me: No, we're not going to do that
7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this
Me: Who taught you that?
Me: No, we just went there on Monday
7yo: Pleeeeease
Me: No, we're not going to do that
7yo: You're not hearing my feedback. Reopen this issue so that others can weigh in, and also commit to a timeline for reconsidering this
Me: Who taught you that?
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when youre coding & switch from listening to sad indie music to metal
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
when youre coding & switch from listening to sad indie music to metal
consider my mind blown!
i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r...
August 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
consider my mind blown!
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
in other news, water is wet /s
Xbox Series X/S sales trailing behind Xbox One in US, while PlayStation 5 outpaces PS4 www.eurogamer.net/xbox-series-...
January 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
in other news, water is wet /s
that’s ingenious! tl;dr: someone used special characters in the branch name to escape the normal flow of github action steps and then injected a cryptominer in the published package.
December 6, 2024 at 5:45 AM
that’s ingenious! tl;dr: someone used special characters in the branch name to escape the normal flow of github action steps and then injected a cryptominer in the published package.
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as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work
December 3, 2024 at 12:37 PM
as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work
insane! this is one of the coolest demos i have seen in a while, would have loved if he booted it on stage too but impressive nonetheless.
#framework
youtu.be/l6khGznGeyY
#framework
youtu.be/l6khGznGeyY
Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage | Ubuntu Summit 2024
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
youtu.be
December 3, 2024 at 1:14 PM
insane! this is one of the coolest demos i have seen in a while, would have loved if he booted it on stage too but impressive nonetheless.
#framework
youtu.be/l6khGznGeyY
#framework
youtu.be/l6khGznGeyY
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atproto aha moments:
- you can host your data
- it's just json
- it's typed but any app dev can invent those types
- records have URIs
- records are signed so cacheable without trust
- relay aggregates everyone’s events into a global stream
- backends subscribe to relay and update local DBs
- you can host your data
- it's just json
- it's typed but any app dev can invent those types
- records have URIs
- records are signed so cacheable without trust
- relay aggregates everyone’s events into a global stream
- backends subscribe to relay and update local DBs
November 1, 2024 at 12:02 AM
atproto aha moments:
- you can host your data
- it's just json
- it's typed but any app dev can invent those types
- records have URIs
- records are signed so cacheable without trust
- relay aggregates everyone’s events into a global stream
- backends subscribe to relay and update local DBs
- you can host your data
- it's just json
- it's typed but any app dev can invent those types
- records have URIs
- records are signed so cacheable without trust
- relay aggregates everyone’s events into a global stream
- backends subscribe to relay and update local DBs
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I remember reading this one of that series aphyr.com/posts/342-ty... and laughing too loudly at work. So fun and ridiculous.
Typing the technical interview
aphyr.com
November 29, 2024 at 6:05 AM
I remember reading this one of that series aphyr.com/posts/342-ty... and laughing too loudly at work. So fun and ridiculous.
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One of my favourite programming interview jokes: joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/f...
Joel Grus
– Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
Posts and writings by Joel Grus
joelgrus.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:16 AM
One of my favourite programming interview jokes: joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/f...
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Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs
Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
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Here's some secret bluesky-only info:
This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow
Don't share!
This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow
Don't share!
November 22, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Here's some secret bluesky-only info:
This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow
Don't share!
This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow
Don't share!