Notes for November 2024
Doubling my streak of writing notes on the previous month to 2, here are some of the things I worked on in November.
TIL: Inspecting Python Threads
One of my favourite things about Python is that pretty much everything about the language can be inspected at runtime and today I found out this is true even for threads.
While working on this PR I kept running into issues where the esbonio process would not terminate, despite everything to my knowledge at least, was being shutdown as expected.
Having encountered issues like this before, I knew the culprit was likely to be some background thread was stuck on something and keeping the process alive.
The problem was I had no idea which thread it could be or what it was doing.
TIL: Local LLMs with Ollama and gptel
LLMs don’t look like they’re going to go away anytime soon, so I may as well start playing around with them. Since I am also using Emacs more and more it also makes sense to try using it as the interface to any models.
Notes for October
I want to try and get into the habit of writing more, so taking inspiration from Simon Willison’s weeknotes here’s a quick writeup of what I have been doing in the month of October.