Alex C. Viana

Recent Posts

• Verifying Git Branch Histories with Diff, Log, and Blame

  28 Apr, 2025

  Rebuilding and checking a git branch

• Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies in the Terminal

  31 Mar, 2025

  Building a terminal splashscreen with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies

• 2024-12-09 Weekly Note - Upgrading Raspberry Pi OS

  8 Dec, 2024

  Rebuilding my Raspberry Pi, Pi-Hole, and PADD configuration from scratch.

• 2024-11-11 Weekly Update - Python, Inverse Machine Learning, Set Cardinality

  10 Nov, 2024

  Sabbatical Week 20 - Python structural pattern matchin and package logging, uv in Docker, inverse reinforcement learning, and Cantor's theory of cardinality

• 2024-10-07 Weekly Update - Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard Distances

  6 Oct, 2024

  Sabbatical Week 15 - General metric spaces, Levenshtein, Hamming, and Jaccard distances plus links on Python 3.13, inline functions, and The MANIAC

• 2024-09-30 Weekly Update - Cleaning git history, blog meta-updates, and new developer line tools

  29 Sep, 2024

  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.

• 2024-09-23 Weekly Update - Python syntax, Obsidian dataview, vim, and Python notebooks

  22 Sep, 2024

  Sabbatical Week 13 - python syntax, Obsidian dataview, LazyVim configs, and python notebooks

• 2024-09-09 Weekly Update - Evergreen notes, LLMs, programming taste

  8 Sep, 2024

  Sabbatical Week 11 - evergreen notes, LLMs, and programming taste

• 2024-09-06 Weekly Update - Structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomal theorem

  5 Sep, 2024

  Sabbatial Week 10 - structured outputs for LLMs and proving the binomial theorem

• 2024-08-30 Weekly Update - Web scrapting and prompt engineering

  29 Aug, 2024

  Sabbatical Week 8 - some web scraping and prompt engineering