“If you think it, you can ask it.” - The Run Down, Starlee Kline (ref) Finding pip packages Pypi doesn’t actually have a way to find all packages with a specific pattern - kinda annoying! But it turns out that pypi publishes all the packages to google bigquery. I found a great article on python.org that gives a great intro. In my case, I wanted to find extensions to llm: ...
Making LLM helpers for the CLI I read about the LLM v0.27 release. Its added the ability to associating tool calling with a template. Cool! I made a ZSH function using LLM templates to help me quickly get aid on the CLI. Playing around with templates I don’t really use LLMs too much when I’m on the CLI. Mostly I use a plugin in my editor (Avante and CodeCompanion are my two favorite NeoVim plugins at the moment). If I need some more extensive help I’ll jump into the OpenAI or Gemini web interface. Or if my task involves a lot of context, I’ll use repomix to gather relevant files, and pipe them to the LLM cli. ...
An updated site The year I’ve been taking a break from working. It has been glorious to have unscheduled free time, but, too, a little nerve wracking. Part of how I handle unscheduled time is to…organize it. Nothing too strict, but planning out my weeks, scheduling out trips and projects. This site redesign is an effort that contributes to that. Simon Willison’s Link Blog also inspired this update. His site demonstrates of how simple links, and one’s thoughts about them are valuable all on their own. He provides a succinct guide for anyone to use his method. Since I’m fairly regularly collecting quotes and links, and not writing down what they mean to me, I thought this practice could be helpful to try out. ...