Day 26 — How are six weeks over already?!

Oh no, I'm almost at the midpoint of the batch! Half of my batch is almost over :( I wish I could be in batch forever, and work on learning and building new things every day!

I took some time to reflect on the past 5 weeks. These are the goals …

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Day 25 — A thing I didn't know about Unix

Welcome to my blog. ICYMI, I'm using it to post about how I spend each day at RC, so that I can look back upon the things I learned, and the interactions I had, things that can otherwise be so ephemeral!


This post got some replies on Zulip, which means …

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Day 24 — JupyterHub and Airflow on microk8s

Some days ago I set up minikube to put together a small demo (or at least some screenshots) for a talk. After a minikube start, it has been taking a long time to come up for me (maybe because of my smol laptop), and it also throws some errors before …

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Day 23 — Why is it called a.out?

tl;dr

a.out is short for "assembler output", the filename of the output of Ken Thompson's PDP-7 assembler. It remains the default output filename for executables created by compilers like gcc, even though the created files actually are not in the original a.out format! [source]


Today I paired …

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Day 22 — WASM + Python = ❤️

Today I attended the "Intro to WebAssembly" session by Ezzeri. He talked about some useful performance benchmarks that he's been working on.

I went on to play with wasmer-python which is a WebAssembly runtime for Python! It lets you execute WASM binaries with an API similar to how you'd execute …

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