I have now officially reached the point where I have more KVM devices than I actually need (at least for now), and I think this one will be the last for a while–so this is my attempt to finish the series on a high note. The JetKVM has been popping up a bit all over the place in t … | Continue reading
This was quite quick, really. Migicovsky’s announcement for the two new PebbleOS watches came much earlier than I expected, and the design echoes the original Pebble vibe (with upgrades like a 30-day battery and improved buttons) while introducing modern tweaks such as a touchscr … | Continue reading
I know I’m late to this party, but I’ve been reading John Gruber’s piece “Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino”, and finally found time to share my thoughts. And, to be fair, I at first I let it linger in my RSS reader due to its size, but during a quiet evening yesterda … | Continue reading
This is going to be a slightly different review, since it is not about a finished product–I’ve been sent an early sample of ArmSom/BananaPi’s upcoming AI module 7 (which will be up on CrowdSupply soon), and thought I’d share my early impressions of it. Disclaimer: ArmSom provided … | Continue reading
Thane Ruthenis takes a long, detailed look at the latest round of AI hype, carefully dissecting every incremental advance and railing against the notion that bigger models automatically mean smarter or more generally capable systems. A particular point I loved is that, for all th … | Continue reading
Mercury’s claim of being 10x faster than traditional LLMs is intriguing, especially running over 1000 tokens per second on NVIDIA H100s, but it looks like the kind of paradigm shift I pointed out was needed to make inference more efficient. Couple this with dedicated hardware and … | Continue reading
After a couple of weeks fielding a few (un)usually stressful projects, I eventually managed to pull my usual stunt of falling ill during a short vacation, during which I mostly sipped tea, watched TV, and played Hades instead of doing anything productive like, for instance, clean … | Continue reading
Well, now we know that the Ultra chips have their own lifecycle. And it’s pretty impressive to read that the M3 Ultra has 2x faster performance than the M4 Max, which in itself is already a beast. But the availability of half a terabyte of (eye-wateringly overpriced) unified memo … | Continue reading
Reviewing things is an interesting experience–no matter what, I learn something from dealing with the various hardware and software bits I get, and every now and then you come across something you really like despite some challenges along the way. This time everything went fine u … | Continue reading
I have been looking at getting a Ryzen AI Max machine of some kind, since the new 8060s iGPU and its unified memory support make it a very tempting setup for both AI and (let’s face it) gaming, very much like the 7840HS and M780 combo I tested last year. For me, Framework having … | Continue reading
Obsidian has been growing on me, and this commercial licensing move is quite surprising–plus the list of big corporates “using” it to some degree is thought-provoking, although I would take some of those entries with a grain of salt. Let’s see where this goes. I’ve always been re … | Continue reading
Not half bad. I like what they did (even if I would have preferred a smaller, easier to handle device), and I’m pretty sure they priced it with a fair chunk of margin to spare. The A18 chip is a nice touch, and I’m very curious about the modem chipset and how it fares in real lif … | Continue reading
Not half bad. I like what they did (even if I would have preferred a smaller, easier to handle device), and I’m pretty sure they priced it with a fair chunk of margin to spare. The A18 chip is a nice touch, and I’m very curious about the modem chipset and how it fares in real lif … | Continue reading
Even if Ed Zitron comes across as a bit grating and negative, i can’t help but have flashbacks to what I wrote. There is a huge difference between OpenAI and Anthropic having have user bases in the hundreds of millions and actual profitability, but the key point I completely agre … | Continue reading
If last week was busy, this one was all over the place, and I am now officially time bankrupt on all fronts, so this update is going to be brief. Homelab After a fair bit of yak shaving, I finally got my Authelia setup and Cloudflare Access tunnels to play nicely together–and mos … | Continue reading
Matt Gemmell takes us on a somewhat nostalgic journey through the Apple ecosystem, highlighting both enduring strengths and lingering quirks of both the iPad and the Mac, and even as I was reading it on my iPad, I couldn’t help but nod along with his observations. You see, the iP … | Continue reading
After spending an inordinate amount of time (up until 2:30AM today) struggling with getting GPU-accelerated desktops to work consistently in Proxmox, I thought I’d just jot down a few notes and move on to other things. Background I’ve been running xorgxrdp desktops with varying d … | Continue reading
Hades is a roguelike indie game by Supergiant Games that I am quite fond of. Using a Bluetooth Controller on an M1 Mac For me, this is what worked: Disable Steam Input Set /UseNativeGaInput=true in launcher options | Continue reading
Cerebras’ CS-3 aims to cram cluster-level AI performance into a dorm-sized fridge by dint of building off a single wafer-scale chip that carries on-chip memory and interconnects, making it a self-contained AI supercomputer that makes NVIDIA GPUs look like a toy (especially consid … | Continue reading
This was a rather busy week as I am ramping off a couple of projects and ramping onto new ones, so all the context switching took a toll and I decided, once again, to spend a chunk of my free time doing (mostly) computer-free stuff. Homelab I haven’t been very happy with my new h … | Continue reading
The UK government’s mandate for Apple to create a global iCloud encryption backdoor is, frankly, a stretch even by bureaucratic standards. I mean, who does the UK think it is, the US? That said, the sheer stupidity of trying to enforce backdoors on encryption is clearly still a t … | Continue reading
Apple’s new Invites app looks like another whimsical step in their relentless pursuit to be meaningful in what I suppose would be teenager’s daily lives, but reminds me too much of Clips (which I used exactly one time) and makes me wonder if they have their priorities straight. I … | Continue reading
In retrospect, I find it vaguely amusing that “doomscrolling” only really took off during the pandemic, because, well, for me it started a little earlier. But it’s no surprise that the term is making a very strong comeback: It's never been more popular Back then, I was already fe … | Continue reading
This was a lively week both AI-wise and otherwise–if you’ll pardon the pun. The upshot was that I didn’t get a lot of sleep, seeing as I spent a good part of the week watching the insanity around deepseek-r1, reading up on its research paper piecemeal during the evenings and re-j … | Continue reading
Some six months ago, in the middle of a somewhat troubled summer, I decided to stock up on IP KVMs and ordered a pair of Sipeed NanoKVMs–a full kit and a barebones one. The price was simply irresistible, and I wanted something that could eventually replace my homegrown PiKVMs. Th … | Continue reading
I’ve been tinkering with deepseek-r1 for a couple of weeks now, but with its newfound popularity and cries of impending doom for developers, I thought I’d do a little bit of more systematic testing with a trivial use case and post the results. What follows is my notes from a some … | Continue reading
This was a pleasant surprise. I look fondly upon my experience with the Original Pebble ten years ago, and it would be nice to have (slightly) more modern hardware that sticks to its simplicity and week-long battery life. My OG is still around (although the bracelet has desintegr … | Continue reading
LeaderKey is an intriguing macOS launcher that uses a vim-like “leader key” keybinding system to launch applications and run scripts. | Continue reading
This is a little earlier than I expected, but completely in line. Like I wrote over the holidays, there is no more low-hanging fruit. But smarter (and massively cheaper) training strategies seem to yield “nearly as good” results as turning datacenters into massively expensive pow … | Continue reading
This week I took it easy over the weekend and put some things on hold to clear my mind from the industry’s chaos. The weather is pretty crappy and I felt like I needed to relax, so I started out by binging Noclip’s Hades: Developing Hell documentary (which, incidentally, is now a … | Continue reading
Zed is a developer-oriented editor written in Rust with some AI features and a focus on performance. It is still in early stages of development, but is already quite usable (it has vim bindings, for starters and has a number of interesting features as well as enough extensibility … | Continue reading
I’ve been tracking the controversy around this, and there is just no way their technical solution makes any sense (or actually improves security)–at first I thought it was just rushed mis-communication, but it just doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, and in an industry where the abil … | Continue reading
Buckle up. As much as I loathe politics, I cannot ignore this, and even though I’m not a US citizen, I am sad that this happened on MLK day. Trump’s inaugural address is a classic case of political theater, blending grand promises with a hefty dose of populist rhetoric. He paints … | Continue reading
John put together a great overview of the TikTok situation, of which most of what I could say would be either a rehash or a mention that it goes fairly well with popcorn. It’s a political theater drama mixed with corporate maneuvering. With Trump’s return to the presidency, the n … | Continue reading
This felt like a normal work week in that I had much less free time than I’d like due to constant pivots. But there were a few fun bits, like rediscovering a pouch full of stickers from my travels and past developer events: This was a bit of fun Homelab and Wi-Fi I got a new mach … | Continue reading
I spent the holiday season practicing my handwriting, which was… unexpected. The reason why is that I got a Supernote Nomad, which was enough to warrant spending a pretty large chunk of time using it either exclusively or in tandem with my other devices. Although it’s been only a … | Continue reading
Welcome to my life. Seriously, this is an amazing likeness to some of the stuff I go through every day at work. | Continue reading
This didn’t fully register when it came out last Thursday (had other stuff on my mind, I guess), but I still think they should have done this for the Raspberry Pi 500 first–because regular desktop users would reap the most benefits, and it would greatly increase the usable lifeti … | Continue reading
I’ve come across a couple of posts about how people use LLMs for coding, so I thought I would share how I currently use AI in general–spanning office work, writing, and, of course, coding and a bit of fun. Disclaimer Since I know most people won’t read my site disclaimer, I encou … | Continue reading
Work was a bit slow this week (it felt more like a half-week as people started popping back in), so I was able to keep a clear head and ended up doing a fair bit of writing for a change–bits of it will be surfacing in the next few hours or weeks. Going Paperless After a conversat … | Continue reading
Rodney Brooks’ latest predictions scorecard is a refreshing dose of reality in a tech landscape often clouded by hype. His candid assessment of self-driving cars, AI, and space travel highlights the gap between expectation and reality, especially where it relates to the AI hype c … | Continue reading
Lenovo’s new Legion Go S handheld is an interesting twist in the gaming landscape, especially with it being the first officially licensed SteamOS device. The hardware timing is a bit off (it’s not using the freshly launched Ryzen chipset, which feels like a missed opportunity), b … | Continue reading
Gemini is a simplified gopher-like protocol that aims to be a lightweight alternative to the web. It runs on port 1965/tcp, defaults to TLS, and completely missed the opportunity of using Markdown instead of its own GemText. Resources Category Date Link Notes Proxies 2025 gneto A … | Continue reading
This is an intriguing proposition, especially for those who live and breathe data science and AI. At $3,000, it’s not exactly pocket change, but the specs are impressive—200 billion parameters and a petaflop of performance packed into a desktop unit. I’d love to get my hands on o … | Continue reading
DOOM: The Gallery Experience is a curious blend of nostalgia and satire, poking fun at the often pretentious atmosphere of art galleries. Walking through a reimagined E1M1 while sipping wine and munching on hors d’oeuvres with a string quartet soudtrack is a delightful juxtaposit … | Continue reading
After two weeks safely ensconced in books, terminal windows and holiday movies (yes, of course I watched Die Hard and Love Actually), I am really dreading returning to work tomorrow–every return to work for the past two years has been far too stressful for me to even joke about i … | Continue reading
I’ve blocked that Google Cloud IP address, because it is extremely uncivil to run Scrapy against other people’s sites at a massive rate, with what seems to have been stupendously lazy coding. So Happy 2025, whomever you were, and please don’t do it again. (Regular reeders need no … | Continue reading
Well, almost, but not quite. Max Woolf’s exploration of iterative code improvement using LLMs is a fascinating dive into the potential and pitfalls of AI-assisted programming. While the results show significant performance gains, the journey reveals a common theme: the balance be … | Continue reading