jploudre

I do programming as a side project — Marimo has been a huge unlock for me. Part of it has been just watching the videos that are both updates about the software and also little examples of how to think about data science. Marimo also helps curate useful python stuff to try.

Starting to use AI in Marimo, I was able to both ‘learn polars’ for speed, or create a custom AnyWidget so I could make a UI I could imagine that wouldn’t work with standard UI features.

Giving a LLM more context will be fab for me. Now if I could just teach Claude that this really is the ‘graph’ and it can’t ever re-assign a variable. It’s a gotcha of Marimo vs python. Worth it as a hassle for the interactivity. But makes me feel a bit like I’m writing C and the compiler is telling I need a semicolon at the end of the line. I’ve made that error so many times…..

I’ve always been a hobbyist on tech. I follow it like some people follow sports.

Whoa. I’m a physician now. I never never have guessed my article from 20 years ago would make the front page of HN!

BeOS was tremendously snappy on that hardware but I ended up missing applications on the Mac.