Writing

I finally finished Echopraxia by Peter Watts this June—a sequel (or rather companion) to my beloved Blindsight, long awaited and wildly anticipated. This is hardcore hard‑SF: dense with ideas, heavy with references, and often more rewarding to read the annotations than the book itself. And yet, that very richness is both its virtue and its vice.

The official Prebid.js bidder adapter path is registerBidder. This article covers the narrower, reverse-engineered path: registering a runtime adapter with registerBidAdapter and returning bid objects that Prebid can actually match to ad units.

We all love to automate things, right? So, you remember that lonely pet project of yours that you've been working on for a while now? It's too small for a proper solution like k8s to seem reasonable, but you still want to deploy it somewhere and have it running.

Linear regression predicts numeric values by fitting a linear function to data. Here is a compact NumPy implementation, plus the important reason not to call logistic classification linear regression.

A practical TypeScript pattern for chatbot message parsing: small predicates decide when a parser runs, parser functions emit domain events, and the dispatcher stops only when a command asks it to.

Old video archives often fail to import cleanly into Apple Photos because the container, video codec, audio codec, or metadata is not what the Apple stack expects. FFmpeg is enough to fix most of that, but the right command depends on what is actually inside the file.

The past few years have been a tough time for me. I was in a deep life crisis and was no longer willing to work on my website. It was always a hobby without commercial or social use, a tiny factory for regular bills. I was in debt then, so I killed it without a second thought or regrets.

Git uses the words ours and theirs from the point of view of the operation it is currently performing. That is why they mean one thing during merge and can feel reversed during rebase.

Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. - Piet Hein

Books were hard to get when I was a kid. They were expensive and, on top of that, in short supply. Many people owned no books at all; some copied them by hand. But there were always plenty of books in our family, and it was shocking to me to see a room with no books in it.