Cory L. Rahman

@corylr.bsky.social

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Same interests? Let’s follow each other! • Lead Software Engineer @BoozAllen • Mentor @ResilientCoders, #100Devs • MS CS @ GMU by night 💙 Science & tech, TypeScript, Angular, GIS, Python, Rust, Go/Baduk, gaming, birds, photography Views are mine

A screenshot of the Coachella Fest trending feed by @trending.bsky.app showing a post by user Dreamcatcher. Dreamcatcher’s post says “Field Sparrow Just pretty darn cute...” and shows a close-up image of a Field Sparrow which has the Alt Text “A white, orange, gray, black, and brown Field Sparrow is between two branches. The background is blurry blue.”. The post has 1 comment, 1 repost, and 35 likes.
A low quality crop of the photo posted by Ethan, zoomed in to the page of the book depicting an image where some machine learning algorithm has drawn a blue box around a cat and labeled it “CAT”
A functional state machine diagram involving 3 functions: stut, check Dupes, and is Delimit. There are 19 nodes total and a lot of arrows going all over the place. The arrow lines being dashed makes it even harder to interpret.
A screenshot of the Ollama website displaying different versions of the DeepSeek-R1 model along with their corresponding memory requirements. The dropdown menu lists options such as 1.5b (1.1GB), 7b (4.7GB), 8b (4.9GB), 14b (9.0GB), 32b (20GB), and 70b (43GB). The 7b model is selected, and its memory usage of 4.7GB is circled in red. Other model version memory values are also underlined in red. The page shows that the model has been downloaded 5 million times and was updated 9 days ago.
A screenshot of the Open WebUI chat interface, which closely resembles ChatGPT’s UI. It is open to localhost:3000, indicating that it’s running entirely locally. The conversations sidebar is open on the left, showing past chats, while the main window on the right displays an ongoing conversation with user messages and AI responses. The first message from me says "Hello, world!" and the deepseek-r1 response is "Hello, world! 😊 How can I assist you today?". The input field and controls are at the bottom, along with a plus button for document input.
Screenshot of a Ghostty terminal showing me using ollama to interact with a local DeepSeek-R1 model over a wallpaper background with a Monarch butterfly.
 Because DeepSeek-R1 is a "reasoning model", you'll always see "think" tags before the model's final response. Image Transcription: 
cory:~ ❯ ollama run deepseek-r1 >>> Hello, world! <think> </think> Hello, World! How can I assist you today? 😊 >>>Send a message (/? for help)
A DuckDuckGo search for “pop culture references 2006” 2 results are shown: Mr. Pop Culture https://mrpopculture.com Pop Culture In Review for the Year 2006 Film The major movies of this year included 'Night at the Museum', 'Dead Man's Chest', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and 'Cars'. 'Brokeback Mountain' was... Pop Culture Madness https://popculturemadness.com 2006 History, Fun Facts and Trivia - Pop Culture Madness An old concept, it reached mainstream Pop Culture this year. Created in 2000, Blu-Ray discs were made available in 2006. They can contain up to 5…
A screenshot of my Bluesky bookmarks folder. You can see 4 search bookmarks: 1. bsky from:me 2. bsky To Do 3. bsky fave quotes 4. bsky my bsky tips
The board game box for Most Wanted. At the top it says "Ken Gruhl, Quentin Weir & Dominic Crapuchettes present MOST WANTED". At the bottom it says 15-35 minutes, 10+ ages, 2-8 players, and North Star Games (the publisher). In the middle is a woman dressed in a blue cowgirl dress and hat pointing a rifle up and to the left in front of a WANTED sign that says "REWARD $10,000".
A Balatro “game over” screen showing Best Hand as 101,707,776.
Air quality in Dhaka Air quality index (AQI*) and PM2.5 air pollution in Dhaka • 00:00, Jan 9 US AQI*: 200 Unhealthy Main pollutant: PM2.5, 124.9 нg/m3 Temp: 15° C Wind: 11.1 km/h SW Humidity: 82% 11 Stations operated by 11 contributors
A cropped image of the Virginia state flag featuring the state seal on a blue background. The seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus, a personification of courage and virtue, dressed as a warrior with a helmet and holding a spear in her right hand and a sheathed sword in her left. She stands triumphantly over a fallen tyrant, who lies on the ground with a broken crown and a whip, symbolizing the defeat of tyranny. Surrounding the scene is the Latin motto “Sic Semper Tyrannis” (Thus Always to Tyrants), emphasizing resistance to oppression.
Allan’s Hummingbird facing right, flapping its wings, sitting on the edge of a waterfall.
Allen’s Hummingbird sitting on the edge of a waterfall, facing right so you can see its eye and whole body. On his neck he has brilliant pink/orange/gold iridescent gorget feathers that look like scale armor.
Image transcription: “Trending BETA What people are posting about. South Korea Han Duck-Soo Impeachment Squid Game”
An Acorn Woodpecker facing left on the side of a tree. It has red on the top of its head, a black back, and a piercing white eye.
View through a window with a banner that reads “San Francisco Go Club Dojo”. Inside is a large room with numerous tables and red chairs, beautiful green plants, and a few people at tables playing the game of Go. There are plaques, photos, art, and clocks on the walls, and a large Go board sits upright on an easel, presumably for teaching purposes.
Photo of a white Jaguar self-driving Waymo car with sensors on the sides and top.
Screenshot of the top of my mobile screen showing the nav bar floating 50ish pixels below the top, overlapping with text in such a way that text appears both above and below the nav bar
Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a culprit, who turns out to also be Fred. Image Transcription: Meme ["Let's see who this really is", featuring Fred from "Scooby Doo". Top image shows Fred from "Scooby Doo" reaching over to a villain dressed up as a ghost, who is bound up by ropes. The subtitle reads:] NOW WE'LL SEE WHO WROTE THIS TERRIBLE CODE [Bottom image shows Fred having the mask in his hand, revealing himself underneath.] Image transcription credit to u/seeroflights, link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/TDR0Xkb5lW
A "select all the boxes with bicycles" reCAPTCHA where a few pixels of a tire are over the line and Peele is sweating profusely because he's not sure whether or not to select the box on the other side of the line.
Historic Status Report for: Fairfax County Virginia 11/4/2020 Summary Fairfax County reported 943 new cases of COVID-19 over the selected week and the number of new cases was accelerating.
A video showing the spatial progression of COVID-19 for the first year of the pandemic. The map shows the contiguous United States where shades of red color, representing the virus, wash over the country.
When you interpolate from red to blue using HSL, the hue shifts the color from red to orange, yellow, green cyan, and finally blue, looking like a rainbow.
An image showing slate gray on the VS Code color picker. The HSL value is set to `hsl(210, 30%, 40%)`. There are 3 sections of the interface, from left to right they are: 1. A large box allowing the user to select saturation and lightness on an x, y chart, 2. an opacity slider (not part of standard HSL), and 3. a hue slider.
A baby Barred Owl sitting just outside a window, photographed from the inside through the window. Its back is facing us but its head is turned around looking back towards us so we can see its face.
App screenshot of Junco vs. Tanager showing proportionally sized circles across the US, blue circles in the North representing Juncos and Red symbols in the south representing Tanagers.
GIF of Kiki flying on a broom over water with seagulls flying alongside her, from the movie Kiki’s Delivery Service
CoryLR: The Coder with a Sprinkling of Cheer A delightful mix of technical genius and earnest interaction, served with a side of birdwatching. Vibe Check "Like a Swiss Army knife at a coding convention-versatile, handy, and occasionally perplexing."
Map of where I took the photo, north of San Diego, CA
Seal with a little blep waking up from a nap