mimmy's blog

• Improvise (November 16, 2024)

  The importance of the subconscious act of creation

  #skill-acquisition

• Two's Complement in 100 Seconds (November 16, 2023)

  Key concepts in two's complement.

  #architecture, #memory, #learning in public

• EVM memory model (November 15, 2023)

  Understanding storage and memory in Solidity.

  #solidity, #ethereum, #memory, #learning in public

• Rust Ownership and Borrowing Cheatsheet (September 7, 2023)

  Generalizing examples from the Rust Book.

  #rust, #plt, #learning in public

• Debugging Python in vim (August 29, 2023)

  Tools for debugging Python in vim.

  #debugging, #python, #vim

• Randomness in Haskell (August 23, 2023)

  Reconciling randomness with pure functions.

  #haskell, #fp, #plt, #learning in public

• TIL: C++ (part 2) (August 8, 2023)

  More random C++ learnings

  #c++, #oop, #TIL

• TIL: C++ (part 1) (August 7, 2023)

  Random C++ learnings

  #c++, #oop, #TIL

• Y combinator (August 6, 2023)

  Explaining Y combinators to myself

  #plt, #lisp, #lambda calculus, #learning in public

• TIL: Timezone conundrum (August 3, 2023)

  What time of day maximizes the number of people around the world experiencing the same date?

  #geography, #js, #TIL

• TIL: getStaticPaths() and removing duplicates in arrays (August 2, 2023)

  Learnings from the Astro tutorials

  #js, #astro, #TIL

• Allow PUT-as-create in DRF (July 31, 2023)

  Understanding a custom mixin that lets PUT requests create new records

  #python, #drf, #source code, #design patterns, #learning in public

• TIL: QuerySet.filter() (July 30, 2023)

  Most QuerySet methods return new QuerySets

  #python, #django, #documentation, #TIL

• closure (July 24, 2023)

  Explaining closures to myself

  #js, #plt, #learning in public