Coding Notes

Working on a bigger project with ai

After initial disbelief, failed trials, and frustration, I finally started to appreciate having a little assistant on my side in the form of AI. While one-off simple questions were usually fine when using AI chat, I had never attempted a bigger project before.

Now, I am working on a new programming language, partially written by AI. I feel more like an architect and tester, sometimes taking on the role of a senior engineer, while the AI is like a restless and enthusiastic young developer. For this, I am using ChatGPT Plus.

My PhD Journey Postmortem

In November 2023, I defended PhD thesis after long years of struggling to finish it. I am proud of this achievement, but it took me longer than expected. Let’s summarise this journey.

Ubuntu Mate 22.04 on Thinkpad T470

Time to celebrate, today Ubuntu 23.04 is officially available, so time for a blog entry. For Ubuntu Mate users, not much news, except for some cosmetics and AI-generated wallpapers. I am writing this while using Ubuntu Mate 22.04. Some issues I had on my Thinkpad T470 with dual-boot with Windows 10. In the end, some complaints about Linux in general.

Is string formatting in Python safe to use or not?

The mighty and powerful f-strings. Well, they are only a sugar syntax on string.format, but whatever. Here I will look at one of the usage scenarios that you should not commit - taking format string from the user. Well, I had to do it in my project, so…