Michelle Waveform, PhD

I’m not using claude code any more - I’m using a fully customizable, minimal, terminal based “ai harness” - basically I’m using claude (or any model) under the hood, and it is like claude code (or cursor or warp or windsurf) but fully the way I want it. it is fun. @mitsuhiko.at @mariozechner.at

I was just typing out a comment starting with "this is" - and Pycharm tried to autocomplete it to "this is basically a hack" - and I have never been more offended by an AI.

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

hey friends. I made this over the weekend. It was both a way to channel my general despair and anger while potentially creating something that might help people understand what's happening with the recent measles outbreaks and vaccine misinformation. waveform-analytics.github.io/measles_data/

medium.com/@david.ruck/...

I follow a lot of programmers, software devs, etc, and I love it bc I learn lots. But are there other folks out there who come from a non-programming domain (underwater acoustics for me) and ended up falling into coding and loving it? Like maybe more than your original domain specialty?

i'm on an ongoing, very meandering process to learn web development. So far have been in html/css/javascript land mostly but just finally learned what fastAPI is and WOW OK.

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

yes, this, basically.

I have a list just for people who post about code, any kinda code, even if I don't know the language. It's my happy place. I go to that list sometimes just to not overdose on depressing things from my main feed. I think it's important to know about everything happening but gotta come up for air.

the more I use uv, the more I love it. Also jupyter has so many many many nested dependencies (which becomes v clear using `uv tree` - one of my fave little tools in the uv toolkit)

Looking at browsers - have people tried Brave? Thoughts? (Or other recs?) I want to like Firefox but I’m just not sure…

switching from chrome to firefox - profiles are kind of annoying but I used the automator on mac to set up custom applications for each firefox profile and it is working! 🤩

@saron.bsky.social So glad you're on bluesky - just found code newbie. Sad it's not active anymore but still enjoying the back catalogue!

Happy new year! Let's hope for a great 2025. And if improving your #Python skills is part of your plan for the new year, check out my starter pack of Python teachers, authors, and speakers. go.bsky.app/M5WjB4s

Happy 25th Anniversary to those who remember...

oh also. Visiting my fam Canada and 1) it is unseasonably warm and all the snow is melting and it has rained a bunch and 2) everyone we're here to see is sick. Come on, Canada. Not cool. On the bright side, got my poutine fix for the year?

My daughter has type 1 diabetes and I've got her set up with DIY loop, an open source insulin delivery system. It's been >1year and going well. Ready to revisit it now tho. Project #1: build a custom web app for monitoring. Project #2: analyze settings to improve blood glucose levels. Let's do this!

I've been trying to pare down my active side projects so I can make meaningful progress on a select few (2-3??) but I accidentally just started 2 new ones instead. oops.

i just noticed that if I rename a .gitignore'd file when using WebStorm (and probs all the JetBrains apps), it automatically updates the .gitignore file to the new name. 🤩

ooh, this is cool: `uv tree` gives you a hierarchical tree so you can visualize the dependency structure in your current environment. 🚨Also does it in 14ms!?🚨

Friday night coding! This evening I am trying out WebStorm. (bc I love trying different IDEs) First impression: it's making me miss PyCharm 🥹

My annual holiday tradition of downloading a cozy game and playing it between Christmas and New Years is here. Hello stardew valley! (Last year was animal crossing)

Just listening to an @realpython.com podcast about ML/NLP and sentiment analysis. It is so interesting. I don't have a project that needs anything like but but suddenly want to find one? Just cuz it sounds fun.

"Last Xmas I rsynced you my heart And the very next day rm -rf ~/heart This year, to save me from tears sudo chmod -r 000 ~/heart"

ok also. I started using Obsidian, just to try it out, and now I just see references to it EVERYWHERE. What's happening.

Well, vacation has started. I wonder if I will have more or less time to work on my side projects?? (I suspect less, but maybe that's not such a bad thing...)

Experimenting with ruff for python linting. I uninstalled black, isort, and flake8 (as much as I love them). Haven't got it fully figured out but one thing's for sure: it is FAST...