Children of Time is a science fiction story about the evolution of intelligent spiders on a planet terraformed by humans. I found it enjoyable throughout but the ending is particularly beautiful. If you like the Three Body Problem or Greg Egan's "Diaspora", you'll love…
Historical fiction about von Neumann and AI. This felt different than other historical novels I've read because as far as I could tell, there was no fictional plotlines introduced to the history. The fictional bit is just the first-person narratives from people around von Neumann that never actually…
If you want to send videos or images to the Google Gemini API, eg for video summarization, you need to upload the video to a separate endpoint and wait for it to get processed. This is described in the Gemini docs, and it's fairly straightforward to translate into…
In Elixir, once you have clustering set up, it's ridiculously easy to run some code on another node in your cluster: Node.spawn(:"another_beam_instance@10.0.1.2", fn -> # This runs on a different node send(self(), node()) end) receive do response…
I started reading up on Erlang's pg module(pg = "process groups", it's not related to Postgres!) recently and kept seeing references to pg2. This is quite confusing because pg is the newer module that replaces pg2. From pg.erl's initial commit message:…
I just released a small Elixir package: flame_dashboard(Hex.pm package). It adds a page to Phoenix LiveDashboard that lets you monitor your FLAME pools. Here's a video showing the dashboard in action: 0:00 /0:13 1×…
I recently had to look up my Hetzner VM's IP in a private network I'd set up from inside a Docker container. My initial set up was a bit clunky passing the host IP addresses during deployment but there's an easy way to look…
I've been experimenting with Kamal for deploying an Elixir application. The application was previously deployed on Fly.io and relies on the Erlang VM's clustering capabilities, so I had to get this working on the Hetzner deployment I'd spun up using Kamal. It took…