Today I:
✅ Baked bread
✅ Booked summer camp in Taiwan
❌ Kept procrastinating on my tax return
∞ leaving Google for this
In Scott Yu-Jan's latest video:
... there are dream jobs and careers, and then there are these rare opportunities like this to do things that no longer feel like a job.
∞ When [Dr. Bryant Lin] Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It
Kate Selig writes:
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
Changelog v2025.2
Umbrella updates
2025-02-01Blog posts are now synced to my Bluesky account.2025-02-01Mango Snippets is now a regular Node, and the snippets are just blog posts.
New nodes
2025-02-01Mango Go Links
New posts
2025-02-02A Small Interaction in Cursor2025-02-02hello-universe2025-02-10How to Use SwiftFormat with SweetPad2025-02-17neurons2025-02-18crossroad
Look, there is a crossroad ahead. And I'm equally excited and nervous about two of the three directions.
I had a dream a few days ago. I was trying to align a model, swimming in a sea of neurons and performing surgeries on them.
Then, I ran into a circuit of neurons. They spoke to me, "Turn around, are you sure we are neurons of the model?"
As I was turning around, I suddenly realized that my neurons and the model's neurons had become interconnected and indistinguishable.
How to Use SwiftFormat with SweetPad
SweetPad is a VS Code extension for Swift/iOS development, with swift-format formatting built in. However, I prefer using SwiftFormat by Nick Lockwood for its comprehensive formatting options.
To use SwiftFormat with SweetPad, update the formatter path and remove the default --in-place argument in VS Code settings:
Here's my settings.json:
{
"[swift]": {
"editor.formatOnSave": true,
"files.autoSaveWorkspaceFilesOnly": true,
"editor.defaultFormatter": "sweetpad.sweetpad"
},
"sweetpad.format.args": [
"${file}"
],
"sweetpad.format.path": "swiftformat"
}
Now that titles on my website's posts are optional, and posts are synced to both Mastodon and Bluesky, I'll try to post everything to my website first.
Hello, universe 👋
A Small Interaction in Cursor
A lot of us are familiar with GitHub Copilot's multi-line auto-completions. As LLM models improve, they're becoming better productivity multipliers. However, auto-completion is just one way IDEs can leverage LLMs.
I'd like to share a very small interaction I had in Cursor today.
I wrote my website's backend in Go myself. At the bottom of my blog posts, there's a page navigation section that looks like:
« Previous page ---- Page 2 ---- Next page »
I wanted to add the total number of pages:
« Previous page - Page 2 of 51 - Next page »
I originally wrote the following code with a bug (both totalPosts and numPostsPerPage are int in Go):
data.TotalPosts = totalPosts
data.NumPages = totalPosts / numPostsPerPage
Instead of directly fixing it, I added a leading comment: // This should be rounded up:. Cursor immediately suggested a fix.
Cursor suggesting an edit after adding a leading comment.
This is not an auto-completion, but a suggested edit!
Changelog v2025.1
Umbrella releases
2025-01-30Updated article font to Newsreader2025-01-14New Documentation Feature on Mango Baby's support page
New posts
2025-01-28Operation AIM2025-01-07watch-pair-watch-pair-watch-pair