#100 — Tue 25 November 2025 by Evan Chen

At one point, the Internet was a place where anyone could carve out a little piece and say, "This is me." (source)

Yeah... I feel that.

#99 — Tue 25 November 2025 by Evan Chen

You know, gunicorn just kind of worked with no fuss. (SIGHUP works as advertised and now I don't have downtime when I update my site.) I feel like usually software doesn't do that for me so I feel grateful for that.

#98 — Mon 24 November 2025 by Evan Chen

Despite being a myself human, I feel is if I have no real understanding of how to teach humans how to solve math problems. I just go off vibes and what-seems-to-work-in-practice and then kind of pray.

Trying to teach robots is even worse, because I'm not a robot, so I don't even have empathy as a compass to fall back on.

#97 — Sun 23 November 2025 by Evan Chen

Me learning how to send HUP to gunicorn.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail
umask 002

reload() {
    uv sync --all-extras --no-dev
    uv run --no-sync python3 manage.py migrate
    kill -HUP "$GUNICORN_PID"
}

trap reload HUP

# Initial sync and migrate
uv sync --all-extras --no-dev
uv run --no-sync python3 manage.py migrate

# Start gunicorn in background
uv run --no-sync gunicorn atheweb.wsgi &
GUNICORN_PID=$!

# Wait for gunicorn, restarting wait after signals
while kill -0 "$GUNICORN_PID" 2>/dev/null; do
    wait "$GUNICORN_PID" || true
done

#96 — Sun 23 November 2025 by Evan Chen

Somethings comes over me when I'm coding. It's like I can't stop until everything is written and polished and perfect. Or it'll just bug me to the point I can't work on anything else.