Sid Shanker's Blog

I'm a programmer living in NYC. Currently working at Baseten, working on making it easier to build applications using Machine Learning. Using this space to share things I've learned about Computer Science & Software Engineering. Also startup stuff!

Follow me on Twitter, check out my projects on Github, and read my blog posts here.

I was building a multiplayer game! On the backburner for now, check it out here: Assassins, and check out my dev log.

Talks

Running User Code Fog City Ruby / Jan 9, 2018

Blog Posts

Aids vs. Abstractions / Dec 14, 2022
Teaching Stable Diffusion about Myself / Nov 26, 2022
Unmute Yourself From Anywhere / Aug 29, 2022
Choosing a High Impact Team / Aug 29, 2022
The Power of a Good Problem Statement / Aug 22, 2022
An MVP Approach to Learning / Aug 13, 2022
Building an NYC Subway Arrivals Board / Aug 4, 2022
Rewatching 'A Whole New World' / Jan 31, 2022
Notes: The Leprechauns of Software Engineering / Sep 27, 2021
Notes: Meaningful Availability / Jan 8, 2021
The Magic of Outer Wilds / Jan 2, 2021
Let's build a Scala mock library / Oct 4, 2020
Notes on 'Working in Public' / Aug 18, 2020
Kingfig Solves the Worst Parts of Managing Settings Pages / May 21, 2020
What I learned attempting the TCP Reset attack / May 3, 2020
Notes: Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go / Mar 27, 2020
Notes: The Tail At Scale / Feb 29, 2020
Review: Mindstorms / May 23, 2019
Ergodicity, Animated / Apr 13, 2019
Type Erasure in Scala / Jan 11, 2019
Copy and Paste for tmux & vim on Linux / Dec 14, 2018
Advent of Code, Day 1 / Dec 13, 2018
Ergodicity / Nov 28, 2018
Software Engineer Interview Tips / Nov 26, 2018
Congestion Control IV: Reinforcement Learning / Aug 15, 2018
Congestion Control III: RED / Aug 1, 2018
Congestion Control II: CUBIC / Aug 1, 2018
Intro to Congestion Control / Jul 18, 2018
Discovering 'select' / Jul 4, 2018
The Discrete Cosine Transform in Action / Jun 24, 2018
Weeks 2-4 at the Recurse Center / Jun 14, 2018
Where do Rust threads come from? / Jun 9, 2018
Safe Concurrency with Rust / Jun 4, 2018
Fear not the Rust Borrow Checker / May 31, 2018
Week 1 at the Recurse Center / May 29, 2018
Using Linux Raw Sockets / May 28, 2018
Machine Learning for Systems: An Intro / May 23, 2018
My First Haskell Program / Apr 14, 2018
Type Variance and Interfaces in Flow.js / March 28, 2018
A better copy/paste flow for tmux on macOS / Jan 28, 2018
Migrations and Long Transactions in Postgres / Jan 12, 2018
Autoscaling Jenkins on EC2 / Nov 17, 2017
Running user provided code / Nov 17, 2017