Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

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  • The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

    The largest collection of free stuff on the internet! This is quite the rabbit hole...

  • X-RAG Observability Hackathon

    This blog post describes my hackathon efforts adding observability to X-RAG, the extensible Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform built by my brother Florian. I especially made time available over the weekend to join his 3-day hackathon (attending 2 days) with the goal of instrumenting his existing distributed system with observability. What started as "let's add some metrics" turned into a comprehensive implementation of the three pillars of observability: tracing, metrics, and logs.

  • Hibernation

    My process of hibernation happens when I am sick or when I feel like I need a lot of rest.

    What I do is that I stay in bed, and try to go back to sleep. As long as I can go back to sleep I do so. I do that for a few days, normally during vacation like right now. Not that I really take time off, I still work during the day, but my client expect a bit less responsiveness during time like Christmas.

    Today I've slept until noon, I went to be around 11pm, so almost 13 hours of sleep. That's not bad. I've had days in the past where I would sleep over 20 hours.

  • TV detox

    The tv-detox is going well.

    There is a deep feeling of being cool. Like it's really cool to not watch tv, only awesome people do that...

    Well, it's more like, everyone watches tv. (And by tv I mean anything from Yt short, doom scrolling tiktok, watching the news, Netflix and any streaming, watching anime, to simply watching a real television) And by not watching tv there is a sensation of liberation, making place for something else, something more powerful and fulfilling.