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Alembic Migrations with SQLModel Micro-Tutorial

"I have a database whose schema doesn't match my SQLModel models. I need to migrate this. I want to use alembic's – autogenerate flag. I am running into issues" If this is you, that was me 15 minutes ago. Here is a Q&A

136 Days of Unemployment

I keep a Google Doc titled "Notes". I look at it every day. I feel guilty whenever I look at it. I feel guilty because "Notes" has my TODO list. Notes has a log of how slowly I DO my TODOs, if I DO them at

So, You Want To Build a Road

If you are reading this, you are considering building a brand new road! First, congratulations! Building a new road is a serious undertaking and you probably don't even know where to start. That's okay! This instructional will walk you through your first "roadie" considerations.

What I See Coming in LLM Reinforcement Learning

RL for LLMs is going to be a relevant and durable process for AI development so long as we don't have AGI. Reinforcement Learning (RL) for LLMs seems to be a popular topic right now for those of us in the AI space; however, most of the world

One Month Out

Here I am – standing in the same place as yesterday. I see how everything has changed right under my feet. These are some of the richest moments of my life. I have the time and the energy to focus on the things that I care about. One month after leaving

Two Weeks of Unemployment

Previous I'm writing this post in an 84º AirBnB in Los Angeles. I've finished Moravagine (learned many new words). I'm reading Basil Bunting On Poetry (learning a lot about poetry). I'm writing a lot of poetry myself and sitting in coffee shops

One Week of Unemployment

After four years, I've left Google. I accepted a voluntary layoff and my access was revoked at 5pm, Tuesday Aug. 19th 2025. When this happened, I felt a wave of sadness come over me, knowing that a defining chapter in my life closed and another had just begun.

Thorne Wolfenbarger Statement of Beliefs

My name is Thorne Wolfenbarger. I am an idealist. I believe in many things. I believe in the pursuit of knowledge and the idea that the accumulation of knowledge is a fundamental good. I believe that information has a will all its own. I believe that information wants to be

There is No Truth and There Will Never Be Truth

Words are words like your hands are hands. You change the world with either but only hold words to a superior moral standard. Is there truth to your front door – to remain locked before you turn the key? Is there truth that a stone must lie still, before you skip

Running Ads for lifestyle.photo for one day

I've made a lot of side projects over the years. I am a grown man now and have to admit that the reason that none of them found traction isn't because I got unlucky, it's because I never have legitimately made a product worth