10. November 2015
Restricting post-deployment tasks to certain roles using capistrano
If you need to only run some tasks on a certain subset of servers in your inventory, first add a role to your inventory file deploy/whatever-environment.rb:
11. October 2015
Converting strings to bf code
I was playing around with the esoteric programming language brainfuck. I found that it was pretty time consuming writing out strings of text using only increments and decrements of the data pointer.
So I decided to write a bf string maker in go. Code generation is pretty important in go, so it is fun to generate code for another language using go.
27. September 2015
Search Index Internals
Watch me discuss how a search engine works.
04. September 2015
A Random Password Generator
I’ve posted a random password generator I’ve written to github. The impetus for this was me accidentally posting one of my passwords in an open chat channel at work. I decided it was time to change my password.
18. July 2015
NLP Essentials
Here’s a talk I gave at work.
08. July 2015
A Comparison of Stemmers
The goal of stemming is to reduce derived forms of a word to something that could be a root form. For example a possible stem of “lighting” or “lighted” is “light”. This is generally done by applying a list of fairly simple rules to a word, possibly recursively, until the algorithm is done and a root form is returned.
04. June 2015
Setting a custom response header in a Gin response
I’m using Gin Gonic on a project I’m working on at work these days. I was in a bit of a pickle where I had to specify a response body that I already had as a string, but I needed to put the correct content type header on the response (meaning I couldn’t use the built in .String or .JSON methods.