GNU Stow is an amazing application that
streamlines the management of unix config files aka dotfiles. Last week, I
converted my original rsync based dotfiles script to GNU Stow and could not be happier with the results.
I got bored today and started thinking about the possibility of randomly generating a valid computer program.
OpenAI recently released the GPT-2 language model with incredible performance. It can generate very good quality sentences by predicting the most likely word given all previous words.
AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) provides one of the most friendly and performent object storage. The ETag metadata returned by S3 can be used to verify the integrity and save bandwith by skipping same files. Here is a simple write up on how the undisclosed etag checksum algorithms work.
Why live in the past when you can live on the EDGE! This is a complete guide to the perfect blog setup using Hugo, Webpack and Babel. As of January 2019, the latest versions are Hugo v0.53, Babel v7.2.5 and Webpack v4.28.3
As of March 2018, I finally finished upgrading my personal homepage to a modern and scalable cloud infrastructure. This website is hosted on the extremely reliable Google Cloud Storage proxied through my Kubernetes cluster.
CartPole is the classic game where you try to balance a pole by moving it horizontally. We will try to solve this with a reinforcement learning method called Deep Q Network.
macOS has a very dumb ExFAT driver, it often mark ExFAT formatted hard drive dirty and takes forever to clean them. So I dug into the internal of ExFAT format and fix this once for all.
Google Container Engine offers a great managed kubernetes cluster. But it comes with one catch, Load Balancing and Ingress Controller are rather expensive. Here is how you can use nginx as an alternative to google's load balancer.