Day 60 — NEVER GRADUATE!

Friday was the last day of my batch :(

I've been writing these posts a day or two after the actual day, but this one is slightly late because my laptop charger gave up on me while I was hanging out with Edith and Adam after the Halloween party on Friday …

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Day 59 — The littlest Jupyter console in Rust!

Today I continued working on translating cutypr to Rust.

I was able to serialize and sign messages, and send them to the kernel, but the kernel kept saying that the message has an invalid signature :( I found it difficult to debug and check if the (message signature) bytes sent from …

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Day 58 — I miss the Python standard library

Today I worked on translating cutypr to Rust.

I found that I could use pyo3 to start the IPython kernel from Rust! So I wrote a start_kernel() Python function to start the IPython kernel, returned some useful information (the key required to sign messages + ports for all kernel channels) from …

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Day 57 — cutypr: an even littler Jupyter console

Today I read the first chapter of the zeromq guide and looked at the client-server and pub-sub examples! I love this paragraph from the preface (sounds so similar to Derek Sivers's CD Baby email!):

We took a normal TCP socket, injected it with a mix of radioactive isotopes stolen from …

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Day 56 — The littlest Jupyter console

This week I'm planning to build a terminal frontend for Jupyter (in Rust!) so today I started looking into how Jupyter works!

I found this doc which shows how messaging works in Jupyter. When we start a jupyter_console (like IPython), it starts a Python kernel in the "backend".

The kernel …

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