Notes on Sad Frog Blog

Notes on Nix

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Nix is a build tool, language, package manager, and operating system to reproducibly declare how software should be built.

It’s bizarre.

The language itself feels like the spirit of a Haskell derivative, bound to the body of the unholy spawn of JSON and YAML. Lazy evaluation, pure functions, all that jazz, but the top level return type is almost always an attribute set used by another bit of code to create derivations.

Now defunct Lazy.nvim idea

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog post, I originally had come up with a one-off idea for how Lazy.nvim could add this new field to handle what I called implicit dependencies, but Folke pointed out a better way this could be done. I edited the original article, but wanted to preserve the idea here for anyone that wanted to reference it.

Original Snippet

With this as our new base, some of our pseudo dependency relationships become inverted. Instead of [cmp] depending on [cmp-path], now [cmp-path] will list [cmp] as one of its dependencies, and when [cmp-path] is loaded, it will call into [cmp]’s config() function to register itself as a source. The only challenge here is that we need a new way to express that [cmp-path]’s load has to run before [cmp]’s load.

AdTech Terms I've Come accross

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Adtech Terms

This is just a collection of adtech terms I’ve had to pick up after working in AdTech for a little bit.

Impression

An impression seems to be a single view or interaction with a given piece of advertising.

Impressions are used when calculating payment on a cost per mille basis.

CPM

Cost Per Mille: The cost to an advertiser for every 1000 (Mille) impressions a publisher gets on a specific ad.

Dmux, A tool I needed

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Dmux is a tool I wrote to replace fragile tmux shell scripts I had that opened and setup panes. It’s grown a bit since then, and I get to pretend to be a real open-source maintainer.

Research on Second Language Aquisition

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve taken some of these notes and found some of these resources over the years while learning a few different languages for fun.

People

Stephen Krashen
Paul Nation Learning Vocabulary in Another Language

Papers

Swain

The Output Hypothesis: From Theory to Practice
- Authors:
  - Nicholas Fuller
  - Friederike Partsch
  - Justin Pannell
- Description: a meta analysis of multiple papers by
Swain
- Year: 2017
- Important references:
Izumi’s Output, input enhancement, and the noticing hypothesis

Swain’s three functions of output are