Doubly Linked Lists Very occasionally I write articles or long form notes around some idea or piece of technology that I want to think more deeply about, this is one of those notes that I managed to organise into a post, this time exploring the time honoured double Linked List data structure. A doubly linked

Sipeed NanoKVM A RISC-V stick-on Sipeed NanoKVM: A RISC-V stick-on This is the Sipeed NanoKVM. You stick it on your computer, plug in HDMI, USB, and the power button, and you get full remote control over the network—even if your computer locks up. How did

Notes on using LLMs for code

Things Ive learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation

My podcast with Dan Faggella Dan Faggella recorded an unusual podcast with me that’s now online. He introduces me as a “quantum physicist,” which is something that I never call myself (I’m a theoretical computer scientist) but have sort of given up on not being called by others. But the ensuing 85-minute conversation has virtually

In praise of randomness I have to admit that the first time I ever encountered the book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates I was incredibly perplexed. Cracking the cover of this 400-page tome, originally published in 1955 by the RAND Corporation, I found it contained nothing but page upon page of

Notes on running Go in the browser with WebAssembly

Wendell Berry on the benefits of writing without a computer We often take for granted that most writers in the modern era perform their work on computers. Like most bloggers, I’m composing the first draft of these very words on a computer. Indeed, for the vast majority of writers, amateur and professional alike, the physical act of writing is synonymous

Notes on OpenAIs new o1 chain-of-thought models

Notes from my appearance on the Software Misadventures Podcast