AI, Coding, and Digital Experiments

Conda Is Fast Now: The Guide to Universal Environments

Conda is a local, cross-language, cross-OS software stack manager. Is conda a Python tool? Pretend it is, and conda will quietly install you a C compiler, OpenSSL, BLAS, R, Node, and a few helpful system libraries while you weren’t looking. Conda’s superpower is not “it installs Python packages.

Common Lisp for Data Scientists: A Field Report From My “Tidyverse Weekend” (Powered by Antigravity)

Rebuilding Tidyverse with Common Lisp There’s a very specific kind of feeling you get when you open a dataset and your brain immediately wants to do the same ten moves it always does: * peek at the columns * clean up a few names * filter down to the interesting subset * reshape

A Modern Guide to Common Lisp Package Management

Quicklisp, Roswell, and Ultralisp—when to use each, and how to avoid the common setup traps You decided to try Common Lisp. You did the sensible thing: you found a library you want to use (cl-excel, or any other). You expect a short story: “Install thing. Load thing. Use thing.

The Zen-style Intro into `uv`

What most people miss when starting with uv. Chapter 1: The Zen of Not Activating Is this a Python environment? No. This is just a folder. Can we run a Python script here? Not yet. We need a project. How do we make a project? uv init What did that

FP

Everyone Got the OOP vs FP Debate Wrong — Because They Never Met Real Functional Programming

Everyone Got the OOP vs FP Debate Wrong — Because They Never Met Real Functional Programming

Python

Stop Worshipping Classes — Your Code Needs Verbs

Why I’m using a Lisp and Julia pattern (multiple dispatch) to write my most complex Python code

How to Save and Recreate Your Terminal Sessions Like a Pro (Without Wasting a Single Byte of RAM)

It always starts the same way. You open a new terminal window. Then another. Then a third one, because you just need to tail a log on staging while running a container locally and checking logs on production (because of course the issue only happens there). By noon, you’ve

How to Survive and Even Enjoy Merge Conflicts with  vimdiff

The Only ~10 Commands You Need to Escape Alive The Moment of Crisis You type: git merge feature Git stares back at you and mutters: CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in hello.txt Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. Normally, you might open hello.txt in nano

The Goat, the Car, and the Bayesian Way of Thinking

Why Your Gut Says 50/50, But Bayes Says Grab the Other Door There’s a game show that has broken more mathematical egos than trigonometric integrals: the Monty Hall problem. You face three doors. Behind one is a shiny car. Behind the other two: goats. You pick a door.

Apple’s Native Containers Explained for Beginners: From Brew to “Hello World”

Faster, Lighter, and Finally Native: Why Apple’s Containers Deserve a Spot on Your Mac Let’s be honest: Docker Desktop on macOS has always felt like inviting a roommate who eats all your RAM and leaves ghost processes in the fridge. It works, but you live with the quirks.

That Time Doom-Modeline Spoke Chinese to Me

Your Modeline Isn’t Multilingual, It’s Just Missing a Font The first time I turned on doom-modeline in Emacs, I was greeted by something I wasn’t expecting: a single Chinese character sitting smugly in my modeline, right where my major mode icon should have been. Was my editor

The Nobel That Never Rings

When Trump cold-calls Oslo for a peace prize he never earned — and drags the world through his vanity play. You almost have to admire it. The audacity. Imagine calling up Norway’s finance minister—mid-walk, no less—and asking, casually, whether you can get the Nobel Peace Prize. Just because

From PDF to Markdown With Dolphin: Local, Fast, and Actually Honest

How to convert complex PDFs to structured Markdown in minutes, what works, what breaks, and how to fix it. Why We’re Here Let’s not sugarcoat it: PDFs are where information goes to get lost, mangled, and locked up. Every data scientist and developer has tried — and hated — the

How to Get Back Your Beloved ChatGPT-4o

The GPT-5 “upgrade” nobody asked for — and how to get your beloved ChatGPT-4o back. 1. The Big Letdown (Spoiler: You Were Right to Rage) GPT‑5 was launched like some holy grail of AI evolution — “PhD‑level intelligence”, supposedly on the brink of AGI. But for the rest of us?

Why Firing Developers Because of AI Will Be the Dumbest Thing You Do This Decade

Everyone's using AI. The winners will be the ones who have more people to use it well. “The CEO announced it proudly: ‘We’re ahead of the curve. AI-first.’” Then they cut 30% of engineering. But the company that didn't cut their engineers? They used AI

How to Overcome Python's Recursion Limit

With Lambdas and Trampolines

Accelerate Your Python For-Loops

And profile speed and memory usage in Python. You’ve probably stared at a for loop that takes ages to finish and thought: “Come on Python, you can do better.” And you’re right — Python can do better. But not without a little help from you. In this article, I’

The Visitor Pattern Is a Lie

The case for ditching the pattern that breaks the Open-Closed Principle You’ve been lied to. All those design patterns, visitor classes, abstract base methods, and factory hierarchies you were told to write? They weren’t extensible. They were a workaround for something your language was missing. Python gives you

Emacs in 5 Minutes for Python and JavaScript Programmers

Part 1: Emacs in 5 Minutes — Or Why Ctrl-g Is Your Best Friend "I just wanted to edit a file." That’s how it starts. You install Emacs. You open it. Nothing moves. Every shortcut you know from VS Code, Sublime, or Vim? Useless. And when you try

Beyond If-Else: Smarter Function Dispatch in PHP

How to Implement and Package Multiple Dispatch for PHP—A Complete Practical Walkthrough

Installing PHP 8 on MacOS, Linux, and Windows with phpenv — The Hard Way (But Right)

You don’t install PHP manually on macOS unless you’re one of three things: * a developer, * someone building something reusable, * or a masochist with too much time. In my case? All three. This guide is the result of a battle-tested PHP 8.4.8 installation via phpenv on macOS,

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The Power of Multiple Dispatch in Python

The Secret Sauce Behind Julia and Lisp — Now in Python

Problem-Solving Like a Python Pro

Learn how to solve problems like a Python pro using clean code, functional thinking, and scalable design patterns—no fluff, just power.

Testing

Modern TDD with Python in 2025 — Step by Step, with AI at Your Side [part 5/10]

GitHub Actions + Pre-commit — Guardrails, Not Bureaucracy “Stop pushing broken code. Gently.” So you’re flying. You’ve written clean tests. You’re in the vibe. You’re pairing with GPT. Your code is elegant, correct… and only tested locally. But one day — future-you (or your teammate) does this: git commit

Past Performance Is Not Future Brilliance

Why Safe Hires Make Safe Bets — and How 10% Risk Could Change Your Company Forever We say we want innovation. But we hire like we’re afraid of it. I’ve never had the final say on a hire. But I’ve seen them come and go. I’ve read