Alex C. Viana
RSS FeedI'm an software engineering leader with a background in data, math, and scientific research. This blog is my notes and reflections on topics I've found interesting over my career.
Recent Posts
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Verifying Git Branch Histories with Diff, Log, and Blame
Rebuilding and checking a git branch
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Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies in the Terminal
Building a terminal splashscreen with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies
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2024-12-09 Weekly Note - Upgrading Raspberry Pi OS
Rebuilding my Raspberry Pi, Pi-Hole, and PADD configuration from scratch.
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2024-11-11 Weekly Update - Python, Inverse Machine Learning, Set Cardinality
Sabbatical Week 20 - Python structural pattern matchin and package logging, uv in Docker, inverse reinforcement learning, and Cantor's theory of cardinality
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2024-10-07 Weekly Update - Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard Distances
Sabbatical Week 15 - General metric spaces, Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard distances plus links on Python 3.13, inline functions, and The MANIAC
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2024-09-30 Weekly Update - Cleaning git history, blog meta-updates, and new developer line tools
Sabbatical Week 14 - Removing sensitive content from your git history, framework and title format updates for the blog, and new tools I've started using over the last 3 months.
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2024-09-23 Weekly Update - Python syntax, Obsidian dataview, vim, and Python notebooks
Sabbatical Week 13 - python syntax, Obsidian dataview, LazyVim configs, and python notebooks
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2024-09-09 Weekly Update - Evergreen notes, LLMs, programming taste
Sabbatical Week 11 - evergreen notes, LLMs, and programming taste
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2024-09-06 Weekly Update - Structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomal theorem
Sabbatial Week 10 - structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomial theorem
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2024-08-30 Weekly Update - Web scrapting and prompt engineering
Sabbatical Week 8 - some web scraping and prompt engineering