Ray's Lab
I'm not a data viz expert. Here are the prompt additions I use to get chart output past vanilla matplotlib, plus a recent experiment aligning visuals to my blog's style.
Cairo's principles, chart-junk removal, data-ink ratio, no y-axis truncation, plus a recent experiment aligning visuals to a design document. The prompt-side workflow I've been using for AI-assisted charts.
AWS EC2's free credits ran out. Here's the choice tree I walked, and the €4/mo stack I landed on.
EC2 free credits expired. Singapore latency wasn't actually the bottleneck. I picked a €4.79/mo Hetzner CX23 with Cloudflare DNS + Pages in front, and here's the decision tree.
Why retrieval over textbook grammar is mostly noise, and what works instead — embedding the learner's own history of wrong answers.
I almost built a RAG system over Japanese textbook content. After thinking about it honestly, I built one over the learner's own mistakes instead — and measured whether it actually does anything useful.
Part of japanese-learning-appRethinking AI assistants by engineering a VS Code extension that uses spaced repetition to teach concepts instead of just autocompleting code.
A VS Code extension and learning system that replaces AI autocomplete with spaced repetition and Socratic hints to help students actually learn.
Part of anticopilotWhy I built this site, why I didn't write a single line of code, and what I learned from handing everything to AI agents.
A site born out of low visibility, built entirely by AI agents as a deliberate experiment in a new way of working.
Part of dev-blog