This post details a Bash script that runs a TDD loop where an LLM is iteratively used to write Python application code to make a fixed set of tests pass. Similar things have been done before1; this script merely demonstrates that such thing…
I write a lot of Markdown in Vim and have spent considerable energy configuring it to my liking. This post details how I configure Vim1 for writing markdown. It is merely a reference that I can refer others to. In ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mark…
Based on a few weeks of using vim-copilot, I recommend the following: Enable Copilot for the gitcommit, markdown and yaml filetypes: By default, these and few others are disabled but I’ve found them to be useful. It’s often amusing to see C…
A friend of mine has been retweeting great paintings from Twitter accounts like @HenryRothwell, which I’ve greatly enjoyed. E.g. Good morning - I hope you slept like a caddis-fly larvae-stuffed miller's thumb. I'm starting with 'Winter Land…
I’ve created a deeply middle-class Git scraper project which tracks the prices of a basket of goods sold by the British online supermarket, Ocado. I’ve been looked for an excuse to use Git scraping for ages, and this idea came up as my wife…
OpenAI provides a REST API where you can generate prompt completions. Here’s a minimal example where a JSON payload is piped into httpie: We can extend this by dynamically building the prompt string. For example, let’s generate a poem based…
From the final novella of David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, set in Ireland in 2043: ‘Number one is to survive’, answers Hood, watching the men on the roof. ‘They’re all dead, like my parents. They had a better life than I did, mind. So did
As a 1Password admin, there are common audit questions you need to answer around who created various resources. The web dashboard is excellent but some questions are still fiddly to answer. Questions like: This post is a note-to-self on how…
For the record, I wrote up some patterns that cause flakey tests on the Kraken Technologies tech blog. Something wrong? Suggest an improvement or add a comment (see article history) Tagged with: django, python, testing Filed in: news Previo…
Someone has asked a question (in Slack or Github) and you’re about to write an explanation. But before you start typing, ask yourself this: Is this the best place to answer this question? Because the place where the question is asked is gen…
If your codebase is tightly coupled to data in your database (ie the codebase has a data value hard-coded), it is a sign you should extract that data from your database into a code-layer model. Never use numbered variable names (eg account1…
There’s only so far you can get by cargo-culting other people’s ~/.vim folders. An important next step is understanding how to debug Vim; knowing what to do when it’s slow or misbehaving. Learn how to scratch things that itch. This post ill…