Blogs tagged "tech"

Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, th...

Time flies 🪰 or is it ✈️, I don’t know, and I don’t have a proper intro this month, so let’s not get hung up on unnec...

After Kaizen #4, I knew I had to act quickly to force myself to set up the actual backups, and do it properly. And th...

Can't find your drive to make a live USB? No problem, PXE boot has your back. I used it to provision a NixOS machine ...

The Tangled code forge has really hit its stride in development and offers a lot of interesting features like vouchin...

These notes are a little raw, I'll come back to clean things up after the conference. On this page As I mentioned in ...

Woke up. Went to gym. Lifted weights. Came back home. Showered. Had coffee. Turned on computer. Replied to some work ...

This post covers versions 4.2 to 4.5.1. Content and Pages This section provides an overview of content and pages with...

A couple of months ago, I got lost in Starfield. I didn’t do much else, and I hardly played my guitar. It’s only been...

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in ...

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...

My attempt to write more frequently by sharing random updates clearly failed (just look at when I published the last ...

Running document containing notes on deploying PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker & Docker Compose.

Scenario This is not completed just yet. You’re setting up a PostgreSQL database with replication, you decided to use...

Scenario There are two pods: “logger” and “logshipper” living in the default namespace. Unfortunately, logshipper has...

It is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom to gift mooncakes. In this Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026, we both bought and receive...

28 July 2026 marked my 34th birthday. Being the birthday person did not mean I did not need to do chores when it was ...

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Casset...

During my undergraduate studies, I relied on a gaming laptop for most of my university projects because I needed a po...

In this post, we’ll explore the crucial role of distributed training in scaling Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to handle...

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How to load .env variables into Bash, using a one-liner. Or three...

An ad showed me a tool I'd never seen or searched for, but I instantly wanted. A small reminder that They know my int...

What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.

Scheduled GitHub Actions are now (in May 2026) so delayed that they are more or less useless. Here I have two graphs ...

The other day my colleague noted that it feels like our Renovate bot triggers much more often in the repos he manages...

Whenever I ask an AI for help on a nontrivial database task I'm always extra careful. By experience I know that they ...

I built music.vfiles.no as a place to publish music reviews, artist pages, and yearly top lists. It’s a Gatsby and Re...

Wikimedia Commons has over 100 million freely licensed media files. A lot of these are photographs of people, politic...

I’ve been bouncing between AI tooling lately: editor copilots, chat UIs, CLIs, agents, you name it. The thing I kept ...

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

Things I read and liked in September 2026

Things I read and liked in September 2026

My site has been de-indexed, so I wrote about it.

TLDR: I trained an LLM reasoning agent to play chess, with model sizes 0.8B, 3B and 9B. The agent calls tools which h...

Learning to Solve Hard Problems in RL for LLMs by Never Giving Up discusses an approach for countering what the autho...

This project is a continuation of my previous autoresearch project, which optimized a reranking model to be under 10M...

Chuniversiteit has a fresh new look and more convenient packaging! Mostly for myself, but maybe it will also benefit ...

People with parallel careers simultaneously hold two different jobs not because they have to but because they want to.

Data scientists and clinicians provide their perspectives on how humans and AI can safely work together in intensive ...

I talk about the fun that comes with missing part of a story

I talk about our recent migration of ticketing systems, AI slop, and toxic positivity

I talk about my evolving opinion on AI, A failed attempt to run local models, and a broken Macbook.

Why is it the way it is?

All Delta Force Land Warrior + Task Force Dagger OSTs extracted from the SBF assets

All Delta Force 2 OSTs extracted from the SBF assets

An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form f...

A summary our trip to Austin, TX to be a community exhibitor at 2025 Texas Linux fest! Especially the success of the ...

I'm going to have a booth at Texas Linux Fest, so I built a TXLF-inspired DIY NAS that I will give away in a raffle! ...

The blog now shows the text of a footnote when you hover over its citation number, so you can read a reference withou...

Subsea internet cables carry 99 percent of transoceanic digital traffic.1 Financial transactions, diplomatic communic...

Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Rad...

My workflow of letting Claude Code process raw files into notes and sort them into my personal wiki, while making sur...

A short overview on how I self-host.

There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink co...

Formatting is not something developers should be spending much time on, but we spend a lot of time staring at code to...

The reasons for having unit tests in your projects are well-known and accepted; I'm not going to rehash them here. Wh...

Most embedded C developers start writing their code on their microcontroller manufacturer's provided IDE - STM32CubeI...