Michael Mior articles - 18 total
Game of Firsts
A lot of things seem to serve to unintentionally nerd snipe me. Over the weekend, a friend introduced...
LLMs for Schema Augmentation
I have recently been experimenting with the use of large language models (LLMs) to augment JSON...
Zotero reMarkable sync
I’ve really been enjoying my reMarkable tablet the past several months. (I wrote a short review last...
LaTeX Skeleton
A repeated task I run into when I start working on a new paper is the laying out the initial...
Reinforcement learning for Las Vegas
During a department board games night, we were playing Las Vegas when a fellow player remarked that...
reMarkable review
As an academic, I spend a lot of time reading papers. I generally hate the idea of printing out a...
Benchmarking ScyllaDB
ScyllaDB is an alternative to Apache Cassandra which claims to have 10x higher throughput than Cassandra while remaining the same positive properties of scalability and ease of use. Scylla functions as a drop-in replacement for Cassandra applications using CQL (currently with some disparity in features). Fortunately, my past work in NoSQL schema design for Cassandra only makes use of features supported by Scylla.
A Calcite adapter for Apache Cassandra
For those not familiar, Apache Calcite is a generic SQL query optimizer which can execute SQL queries...
Automated Testing of Dotfiles
Several years ago I started managing my dotfiles based on Zach Holman’s dotfiles repo. His setup is...
Apache Cassandra benchmarking
I was recently trying to run some benchmarks against Apache Cassandra on EC2 since unfortunately the...
Node.js skeleton project
Unfortunately, it’s obviously been a long time since this blog has been updated. Since the last post,...
Unit testing Django model mixins
I recently found myself having to unit test some model mixins and I thought I would share the...
MySQL Client Configuration
Perhaps I’m the only one who didn’t know this, but a while back, I discovered a handy trick for...
Coloured SSH terminals
With the looming prospect of deploying software to production systems and horror stories of...
RUBBoS
While working on my Masters thesis, I needed a solid database benchmark. RUBBoS is a fairly common...
Designing an Offline CMS
First the obvious question. What on earth is an offline CMS? Isn’t the whole point of having a CMS...
The Dangers of strlen
I’ll keep this post brief, but I wanted to share something I just found about the C strlen function....
DBUS for cross-machine screensaver locking
I typically work with two computers on a regular basis. When I bring my laptop into the office, that...