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Tower Defense

August 28, 2025

I used to spend my time before classes playing the original Desktop Tower Defense. It had a long loading screen, it lagged when there are too many units, and it was written in Flash. I wanted to make a modern JavaScript version that’s smoother and more optimized, but I wasn’t a web developer… until LLMs came along.

r/biotech Salary Survey 2024

June 20, 2025

What are the normal salary ranges in biotech? How does this change for different experience levels? How much do bonuses and equities contribute to income? In this post, we explore these questions and more using survey data from r/biotech.

Setting up Python dev tools in linux

February 21, 2025

I wish installing these tools in linux were as simple as `brew/chocolatey/npm install xyz`.

An ode to uv

January 16, 2025

After using uv for a couple months, it continues to impress. It’s fast. It’s easy to use. I have not completely abandoned Poetry because my existing projects are already configered to use Poetry, and my colleagues have not yet adopted uv. Nonetheless, uv still offers tremendous advantages in my workflow. This post will explain how I make use of uv in my workflows and its advnatages over other tools, when my projects are still configured for Poetry.

An ode to uv

January 16, 2025

After using uv for a couple months, it continues to impress. It’s fast. It’s easy to use. I have not completely abandoned Poetry because my existing projects are already configered to use Poetry, and my colleagues have not yet adopted uv. Nonetheless, uv still offers tremendous advantages in my workflow. This post will explain how I make use of uv in my workflows and its advnatages over other tools, when my projects are still configured for Poetry.

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"Checkout" Github action can pull from the wrong commit

December 10, 2024
A crucial step in the CI/CD process is checking out your working repository. Typically, we rely on `actions/checkout` to pull the branch we're working on for testing. However, it turns out that there are some quirks in this action that is not well documented. The action can sometimes pull from the wrong commit SHA, leading to unexpected behaviors.
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Testing your code in multiple environments with nox and uv

November 9, 2024
Often in production, you might want to test your code in different python versions or environment variables. You could use the `matrix` command in Github CI, but it's much more tedious to do the same thing locally. Instead of manually setting up each environment and variable, Nox helps you automate this kind of testing. Let's see what it takes to set up Nox and test my Poetry-managed package in three different Python environments.
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