Thorne Wolfenbarger - Personal Website

2023-12-04

thornewolf.dev charter

I've finally solidified on a purpose for my *.dev domain https://www.thornewolf.dev/. It is to provide an experience sim...

2023-08-12

A Proposed Design for an LLM-Powered Text-Based MMORPG

In this writeup I will specify a few high level components that I think would be crucial for implementing an LLM-powered...

3 min

2023-08-12

Personal Dictionary Webapp

I was talking with my friend, Adam Bignell a few days ago about his reading habits. He likes to keep tracks of words tha...

2023-08-12

Generated UI Library & Website

LLM-enabled workflows are here and they will only become more relevant in the years to come. To explore the power behind...

4 min

2023-08-06

Python make altinstall fails

Follow: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1047445/altinstall-error

2023-08-06

How to Configure Prettier + TailwindCSS + Jinja in VSCode

Create .prettierrc.json { "overrides": [ { "files": "**/*.jinja", "options": { ...

2023-07-16

A Few Ideas for Projects

I don't want to lose track of the project ideas I've been having recently, because I think many of them are really good!...

thoughts programming

4 min

2023-07-10

Database Options with Python APIs

This writeup is to provide an up-to-date list of database options for use in any Python application. I find that it's ha...

2023-03-14

New Game! Find The AI Impostor - TuringJest

TuringJest is a social deception game with a twist. You want to act like an NPC! I've been working on TuringJest for a ...

2023-01-29

To Steal An Aesthetic. To Find Beauty in an API.

Beautiful design is addicting to look at. This fact is especially true when the design is brilliantly simple. I first sa...

2023-01-05

Eliminate ID Generation Boilerplate Using the Python Secrets Module

Secrets is a Python module that snuck into my Python installations, completely without my knowledge. Added in 2016, I ha...

2022-12-23

Building a GPT-3 Personal Assistant

OpenAI has a publicly available API for their GPT-3 model, "text-davinci-003". This API provides a simple and clean inte...

2022-11-28

Using SvelteKit to build a Community Ranking Ladder

To make products people use, one needs some frontend skills. Historically, frontend is a weakness of mine and I've been ...

3 min

2022-07-08

Heroku and Heroku Alternatives

Recently, I've been doing some shopping around for a new way to host my toy projects. I've used a variety of solution bu...

4 min

2022-04-10

Pricing Options with the Black-Scholes Model [Short]

Recently, I have been learning about optimal options pricing under various sets of assumptions. The introduction to risk...

programming math

2022-01-25

Prebuilt Blogging Solution & Paying For Hosting as a Software Engineer - Why?

One characteristic that almost every engineer is the innate desire to create. These feelings of creativity can manifest ...

3 min

Algorithm Breakdown – Container With Most Water

Container With Most Water (Problem #11) on the popular competitive programming site LeetCode [leetcode.com] is called “C...

What Does System Design Actually Look Like? - Creating a WhenIsGood Clone From Scratch

System design is a complicated skill that takes engineers of all disciplines years to become proficient in, yet alone ma...

Monte Carlo Simulations: For When Math Is Just Too Hard

“Monte Carlo simulations are used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be pred...

math programming

Binary Search: An Algorithms and Data Structures Website for leveling up your skills

Recently released for beta, Binary Search [binarysearch.com] renovates the traditional online coding examination and pra...

Wordle optimal guesses using minimax

Wordle is an online game where the purpose is to guess a "random" 5 letter word in 6 or fewer guesses. A prompt explain...