Austin Gebauer

The books I've read each year

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Short takeaways from books I’ve read over the years. I think distillation of information is an important mental muscle to keep strong. So I promise to always write these myself (sorry, chatgpt).

2024

The Last Question Isaac Asimov

I’ve been a sci-fi film fan since I was young. My grandfather’s VHS collection included Predator, Terminator, and Alien. One of my favorite memories was watching these when staying over at his house. The Last Question is the first sci-fi reading I’ve done. It’s a short-yet-powerful story about the creation of the universe. Without spoiling too much, the participants in the story ask an AI system (called Multivac) how to reverse entropy. The story reveals what is the final boss on the path towards AGI (i.e., when AI becomes a god).

Opening files with Vim from the Finder on macOS

Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I use Vim for most all the file editing I do on my Mac. I thought it’d be nice to be able to click on files in the Finder window and have them open up in my terminal for editing with Vim, so I wrote a bit of AppleScript to make it happen. This post shares how I set this up on my Mac so that you can do the same. The guide assumes that the terminal being used will be iTerm2.

How to use the theme on this website

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

My first Hugo website theme, Devise, was recently accepted into the Hugo themes gallery. I’m excited to share that you can now use it for your own website.

You can find instructions for installing, configuring, and updating the theme here.

I’d greatly appreciate a Github project star ⭐ if you like the theme. If you have an idea for a new feature or found a bug, please feel free to use GitHub issues to let me know.

Writing a ray tracer in Go

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Motivation
Tools for the Job
Rendering 1 - Projectile
Rendering 2 - Clock
Rendering 3 - 2D Spheres
Rendering 4 - 3D Spheres
Rendering 5 - World
Rendering 6 - World with Shadows

Motivation

I’d been curious about how graphics worked since playing video games as a child.

I decided to take the time to learn about graphics programming this year. After doing a bit of research on rendering techniques, I decided to learn about a particular technique called ray tracing. Ray tracing can be used to render photorealistic scenes.

About

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

About

Hello 👋 I’m Austin Gebauer.

I’m a currently a senior security software engineer on the Starlink team at SpaceX. I studied at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Previously, I’ve worked as a software engineer at:

HashiCorp on the Vault product
NGINX
F5 Networks

Contact

You can reach me by email at gebauer.austin@gmail.com. You can also connect with me on GitHub, X, and LinkedIn.

Austin Gebauer

The books I've read each year

2024

The Last Question Isaac Asimov

Opening files with Vim from the Finder on macOS

How to use the theme on this website

Writing a ray tracer in Go

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Motivation

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