Herbert's Blog

I’m a software developer interested in all kinds of programming.
I love building web app and creating tools that people find useful.
Code for fun, Make things happen.
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• 2025-01-02
  My First Month with DiDi
• 2024-09-12
  user group problem
• 2024-08-01
  Human Feeling in Holdem Poker
• 2024-06-19
  What is GPT and Why Does It Work
• 2024-02-28
  Cobra
• 2024-01-30
  Golang Generics
• 2024-01-28
  Service Discovery

• poker-equity-calc:

  a poker equity calculator

• fastish:

  A fast, simple & powerful web application about dish

• leetcode:

  my tragic history

• Stables and Volatiles
• IBM’s 100,000 qubit computer project
• the ‘return to office’ lies
• Empathy for the User Having Sex With Your Software
• No More Blue Fridays
• Scenius: why creatives are stronger together
• Listen to the Universe
• Experts vs. Imitators
• What Monks Know about Focus
• S3 is files, but not a filesystem
• Home Lab Beginners guide
• Perf is not enough
• The Best Essay
• Why can't you multiply vectors? - YouTube
• How To Be A Good Listener
• Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski
• Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
• Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life
• GPT in 500 lines of SQL
• Hedge Funds didn't beat the Nasdaq in the past 10 years
• Strong Opinions weakly held
• A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
• LLM Visualization
• Chronobiologist and Nobel Laureate in Medicine Michael Rosbash: 'Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night'
• π in Other Universes
• The Cloud Computer
• Software disenchantment
• 4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
• Psytrance Guide
• The Price of Progress
• Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
• Don't Play Like a Solver - Think Like a Solver
• If You Make Money Every Day, You Are Not Maximizing - Moontower
• Putting the You in CPU
• Your Mystery: Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
• Zenbleed
• Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity
• DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
• Meetings are the work
• orb.farm
• The Salary Discussion Taboo
• Language models can explain neurons in language models
• New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years
• Effects of chocolate on cognitive function and mood: a systematic review - PubMed
• Hotspot performance engineering fails
• Ice and Fire: How to read icicle and flame graphs
• Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
• Why I Like Go’s Error Handling
• Lessons learned from TiCDC | Amyangfei's Blog
• Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama-INCITE family of models including base, instruction-tuned & chat models
• A Career Cold Start Algorithm
• Sailing boat rescued by the Gotheborg of Sweden
• Corporate Hierarchy: The sociopaths, clueless, & losers
• the rise of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers? - The Pragmatic Engineer
• Replit - How to train your own Large Language Models
• As a developer the current rate of ML progress doesn't make any sense to me
• The co-founder of Kickstarter invented this big life decision-making framework
• A visual book recommender
• Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff
• 3Blue1Brown - Why do prime numbers make these spirals?
• House Rugged
• The better you are at math, the more money seems to influence your satisfaction
• What the new science of authenticity says about discovering your true self
• The lone developer problem
• Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers
• The Ultimate Linux ARM64 Workstation
• The age of cargo cult Agile must end
• Your view of management is upside down
• Underpants gnomes, Outcomes, and Intermittent Reinforcement
• Excuse Me, Is There a Problem? Many Startups Fail Despite Identifying a Real Problem and Building a Product That Solves That Problem. This Explains Why, So You Can Avoid Their Fate.
• The path of a generalist or the joy of being an amateur
• Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had
• AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
• Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history
• Cognition for all!
• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence:Early experiments with GPT-4 论文内容精选与翻译
• Drunk Post: Things I've learned as a Sr Engineer
• What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work?
• Being ‘Too Busy’ Means Your Personal Strategy Sucks
• I was bored!!
• 技术写作二三事：原创情结
• How to Create Luck