TILs

I find it incredibly helpful to write as I code, but most of that writing has never left my private notebooks. TILs (today I learneds) are my attempt at documenting and sharing my day-to-day learnings in case they might help others. The focus on learning also feels less daunting than writing blog posts.

Using shot-scraper to automate screenshots for my writing

I’m trying out Simon Willison’s shot-scraper to include a screenshot of the website for our JupyterCon 2023 tutorial in my blog post.
2023-05-22

How to create your own AI avatar using HuggingFace Diffusers and Dreambooth

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I’m super impressed with the quality of Dreambooth using HuggingFace Diffusers 🚀 — with only 14 images of myself! These four images are created by Stable Diffusion using…
2023-03-06

Callbacks vs async/await

A quick demonstration of callbacks vs async/await
2023-02-13

How to use NSTableView in SwiftUI

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I recently started learning macOS development using SwiftUI as part of my latest project: building a macOS Jupyter frontend. While I’m loving Swift (the language) and…
2023-01-25

How to setup a GPU notebook server on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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GCP is my current preferred cloud provider for GPU servers. I compared prices last year and found that GCP was the cheapest for lower-end GPUs. The notebook servers offered…
2023-01-23

How to share terminal demos as razor-sharp animated SVG

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Install asciinema and svg-term-cli.
2022-12-15

Diagnosing an issue with plugin modules, process pools, and the import system

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This is a walkthrough of the rather surprising mechanics underlying a failing test that brings together plugin modules (that register themselves on import), process pools…
2022-07-10

Update fastai union annotations using ast

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This notebook doesn’t render correctly until I figure out how to tell Quarto to echo code cells as is without parsing directives.
2022-07-08

Compiling Python to C using setuptools and Cython

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plum1 compiles an ordinary Python file into an extension module (in C) using Cython and setuptools’ Cython integration. It’s the first time I’ve encountered this, so here’s…
2022-07-04

Creating a minimal custom Jupyter widget

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I couldn’t find a super minimal example of implementing a custom Jupyter widget, so here it is. This is based on Pierre Marion’s Binder Repo for Hello World Jupyter Widget.
2022-06-23

Point and click directory navigation inside a Jupyter notebook

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Here’s a tiny demo of a point-and-click navigation interface with rich output powered by Jupyter notebooks and ipywidgets! I originally mentioned the idea in a previous TIL.…
2022-06-23

Create and execute cells inside a Jupyter notebook

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I’ve been thinking a lot about unique Jupyter notebook interactions. A pattern that keeps coming up in my head is to click on the output of one cell to create a new cell…
2022-06-22

Setting up TILs in Pelican

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Inspired by Simon Willison, I started writing TILs (today I learned). I find it incredibly helpful to write as I code, but most of that writing has never left my private…
2022-06-21

Using Pelican as a library

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In this post you’ll learn how to use Pelican (a Python static site generator) programmatically rather than through its command-line interface. This will give you a better…
2022-06-20
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