mkasberg
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Software Developer @ Strava.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Nice! This looks fun, maybe I'll need to try this next!
Comment · 1 year ago
I started using embeddings to find similar posts on my blog about a year ago. The results were awesome: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2024/04/23/better-related-p...
Such a simple tool to implement with so much power in certain situations!
Comment · 1 year ago
I changed the way I wrote my y's (now very curly) and z's (now crossed) in college while studying math after realizing I was making silly mistakes changing y's to x's and z's to 2's.
Comment · 1 year ago
Love seeing stuff like this on old laptops!
I recently built https://linuxlaptopprices.com/, inspired by diskprices.com.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been using Jekyll for my blog for nearly 10 years now. I also recently wrote a little plugin that uses SQLite, though I'm using it in a minimal way as a vector database rather than storing content in it right now.
https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2024/04/23/better-related-p...
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
VS Code takes an opinionated view of this with "dev containers". Other IDEs (including JetBrains) have support as well. It's probably worth looking into a little, whether you decide to use them or not, to understand why they made some of the trade-offs they chose. I wrote a little blog post as an intro a while back: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2021/11/06/what-are-dev-con...
Comment · 2 years ago
On a related note, the number of HTTP 404 errors I see to /wp-login.php on my static website is ridiculous. (But absolutely not security risk.)
Comment · 2 years ago
That would do it, or do this: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firef...
Comment · 3 years ago
Shift-click (on the last photo) to select bulk photos works in the web interface. Not sure you can do all at once but you can probably do hundreds at once.
Comment · 3 years ago
Most important quote:
> Buy products that work locally and won’t stop functioning when management wants an additional revenue stream.
Comment · 3 years ago
Same thing happened to me. 10 years ago using Linux on the Desktop was tricky but worth it for me. Now it's almost the opposite, my Linux desktop feels smooth and unobtrusive compared to Windows, and rarely has any problems!
Comment · 3 years ago
https://www.mikekasberg.com
Some programming stuff, some totally random stuff, and lately some 3D printing stuff!
I think my most well-known post is a how-to for encrypted dual-boot in Ubuntu: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2020/04/08/dual-boot-ubuntu...
More recently, I've gotten into some programmatic 3D printing stuff like this: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2023/04/27/3d-printing-the-...
Comment · 3 years ago
> without the need to execute the whole call hierarchy. (e.g. an HTTP endpoint)...
> “Evaluate Expression” was quite useful in exploring new codebases and checking return values of my own functions as a sanity test.
Keep pulling on this thread... pretty soon you'll be writing unit tests!