blog
I've been blogging for 14 years now. I started off writing in Romanian, while I was in highschool. I credit writing all those posts with helping me get a really good grade at my Romanian exam at the end of high school. Then in university, I wrote a
windows
When developing FastAPI based web services, I sometimes run into a weird issue on Windows: I kill the uvicorn process, but the port it used remains in use and I get responses in the browser, even though the server appears to not be running. Today I learned what's
git
Until today, I always used Github as a server, pushing my code changes there, then pulling from there to the deployment server (in a more or less automated fashion). But today I ran into a locked down VM that blocked Github, so I had to find alternative ways to get
git
As a freelancer, I work for many clients, who have their source code in many different places, often self hosted. I generally create new SSH keys for each separate platform. Unfortunately, Git doesn't provide an option for what keys to use, you have to configure this in the
programming
I work on many different projects and I use some ActivityWatch for automatic time tracking. AW has a feature where you can use regexes to match window titles to assign them automatically to different projects. But, unfortunately, Jupyter Notebook have a "{filename} - Jupyter Notebook" title in the
programming
I often need to set up a VM with a server to run some ML models. While I could package things in Docker and deploy them like that, whenever possible, I like to do things more directly, using systemd services. To create a systemd service, create a file called /etc/
programming
When running long running code in Jupyter, I want to get notified when it finished so that I can get back to it. There is an extension to do that with browser notifications, but there are times when I leave the computer while waiting for an ML training to finish.
til
I use tmux as a multiplexer and for running some long-running commands on servers. Today I encountered a weird issue: when trying to attach to an existing tmux session (or when trying to do anything with tmux), I would get the following error: can't create socket: Permission denied
interview
Yesterday my friend Marius Corici called me and asked me if I wanted to be interviewed (again) by ProTV, this time about deep fakes. This time it was a Zoom interview, and they asked me not to blur my background (ugh). And I had my second 15 seconds of fame
programming
As I work from home 90% of the time, I run into a small issue during meetings: I sometimes speak too loudly. Before my daughter Gloria arrived, this was something that annoyed my wife and others in the house, but now, when Gloria is sleeping, this is not just an
learning
My next project where I learn in public is about doing transcripts with Whisper. Whisper is a quite good automatic speech recognition model that is open source and can run on your own computers, provided you have a GPU. I prefer reading to listening, so I wanted to transcribe my
travel
The last couple of months have been quite busy for me. Consultant life is starting to pick up the pace (at least some aspects of it), especially the traveling part. It started in March: Make IT in Oradea, a startup incubator where I'm involved as a mentor, had