Category about anything related to programming. I’ll put here posts about web programming, scraping, bots, back-end things, etc.
Building a text-based conversational agent is one problem. Adding a face and a voice to it turns out to be a different problem almost entirely. Most of the mental models I brought from text agents were wrong. The architecture is different. The failure modes are different. What counts as a good interaction is... Read article
It’s possible to configure Vim or Neovim in a way that default commands like yank or delete would use the system clipboard. However, my preference is to have separate registers. The reason is that I don’t want to replace the system buffer when yanking or deleting. Furthermore, I would like to use CMD... Read article
If you are reading this probably you have the same issues as I faced before. I love Kitty terminal. It’s fast and simple. At the same time, I use in my life following languages: Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Russian. All of them use the Cyrillic alphabet. And Kitty has an issue: shortcuts work only... Read article
For a long time, I used NodeJS as a tool for all kinds of tasks. Nowadays, however, I find myself increasingly drawn to Python for data processing tasks, which have become more frequent in my work. I’ve found that NodeJS can be somewhat verbose for these types of projects, especially when dealing with... Read article
To be honest, I prefer the NodeJS runtime over JavaScript itself. While JS is great, I appreciate the added benefits of type validation and similar features. During my student days, I heavily used C# to build everything from desktop apps to web services, which is probably why I love TypeScript. Today, I’ll show... Read article