How to limit the number of Twitter posts in your timeline using JavaScript BLOG

less than 1 minute read

Published: March 12, 2024

I have a bit of a problem scrolling too much of the awesome content on Twitter. There are just too many other people creating cool ideas and software! At first I justified it by the fact that I find academic papers (my feed is curated to mostly academic CS/ML/SE), but now I admit it’s too much! In a bid to waste more time in order to waste less time, I created a simple script that puts an extra UI onto each post in my Twitter feed:

• For the first five posts, it numbers them to remind me how many I’ve browsed.
• After that, it blocks them out with a reminder of the limit I set (currently I keep it at five posts).

How to set up a shared cache for HuggingFace libraries BLOG

3 minute read

Published: January 16, 2024

TL;DR

I set up a shared cache for HuggingFace libraries like transformers and datasets. See the repository: https://github.com/bstee615/shared-hf-cache. To use it, create a shared directory which can be edited by all interested users and set the environment variable export HF_HOME="/huggingface".

How to use task-spooler as a shared queueing system BLOG

4 minute read

Published: December 16, 2023

TL;DR

I set up a wrapper around task-spooler. See the repository: https://github.com/bstee615/shared-task-spooler. To use it, create a file containing the below script and invoke it using the same arguments as task-spooler.

#!/bin/bash
# Dependency: sudo apt install -y task-spooler
TS_SOCKET=$(dirname -- "$0")/TS_SOCKET exec tsp -L "$USER" $@

Meditations on Meditations: I-IV BLOG

10 minute read

Published: June 03, 2022

I’m reading Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations in Marcus Aurelius and His Times (Transition from Paganism to Christianity) [0].

Programming problem: Gematria BLOG

6 minute read

Published: May 13, 2022

I’ve recently been studying history in the Bible by following along with the phenomenal podcast of the same name, History in the Bible by Garry Stevens. As part of his series, I learned about gematria, which is the ancient practice of assigning a number to a name based on the letters in the name.

No pain no gain? Comparing 3 program analysis frameworks for C BLOG

11 minute read

Published: March 07, 2022

Program analysis methods often represent programs as graphs. These graphs should be automatically generated from the source code. There are many tools that have been implemented to do this, but they are often painful to set up. In this post, I will compare 3 program analysis frameworks which I have used to generate graph representations of C programs.