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Hi there

I'm Lino Le Van, an independent developer who mostly contributes to open source projects in my free time.

  • โ˜๏ธ My personal projects are always fluctating. Check out ~/projects on my site for my most recent stuff!
  • ๐Ÿฆ€ I'm learning Rust to build speedy applications
  • ๐Ÿฆ• I'm having fun contributing to Deno
  • ๐Ÿ’ป Ask me about Discord or Software Preservation
  • ๐Ÿ˜„ Pronouns: He/Him

Recent Thoughts

@linolevan.com 11/30/2024

Pleasantly surprised by github.com/Whisky-App/W.... Seems to "just work" in a way I was not ready for.

@linolevan.com 11/23/2024

Sometimes I run into a bug and have a ratatouille moment to when I last encountered it. Itโ€™s quite useful for debugging.

@linolevan.com 11/22/2024

Does anyone actually use Upstash or is it just part of senior engineer hazing rituals

@linolevan.com 11/22/2024

Why is public transportation in California so slow and expensive? Not a complaint, genuinely donโ€™t understand the root of the problem.

@tinyclouds.org 11/22/2024

Here's some secret bluesky-only info: This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow Don't share!

Is there a field of research on algorithms/functions as information transformers, as in changes in Shannon entropy? After all, all a computer does is change one form of data into another so it should be possible albeit impractical to define all computation in Shannon entropy terms. Maybe? #compsci

@deno.land 11/21/2024

Deno 2.1 is out ๐ŸŽ‰๏ธ ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ first class Wasm support ๐ŸŒณ๏ธ Long Term Support branch โญ๏ธ Improved dependency management and much more. deno.com/blog/v2.1

@alphaxiv.org 11/18/2024

Finding good data mixtures for LLM training can be tricky - Aioli provides a unified framework to construct pre-training data mixtures. Talk to the authors @MayeeChen @michahu.bsky.social @nicholaslourie.bsky.social @kchonyc Christopher Rรฉ @HazyResearch directly here!

@linolevan.com 11/16/2024

Building a startup pack for people in the JS runtime space. Anyone I'm missing? go.bsky.app/12kxo4Q

@linolevan.com 11/15/2024

I missed the 2022 drop of the SI prefixes ronna (10^27), quetta (10^30), ronto (10^-27), and quecto (10^-30). Frankly an interesting decision to extend the standard SI prefixes. Source: www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022...