Blogs tagged "tech"

Why read the book? Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 1864. Professor Otto Lidenbrock finds ...

Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short...

Why read the book? Yossi Cohen served as director of Mossad from 2016 to 2021. In The Sword of Freedom he describes h...

I've been running GrapheneOS for a little over a year now and didn't realize much Smart Notifications have changed ph...

The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices. Now you have to actually do everything you've been...

Sony is locking the PlayStation down more and more. I just want to free my PS4 Persona 5 Royal save so I can play on ...

I never thought I’d own a Strat, but now I do. Guess it’s true that the amount of guitars one needs will laways be n ...

Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write a...

An archive of what used to be my /notes page. Node.js: Buffer in Cloudflare Workers Using things like Buffer.from() i...

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...

Maternal Uncle's Funeral Permalink to section 'Maternal Uncle's Funeral' # On 21 May 2026, we received the news that ...

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I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...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

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

Doing a run-through of an old post to see if it can be used today.

Notes on how mDNS is prioritized on the .local top-level domain.

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

How to restore man pages and other stripped content in minimized Ubuntu Docker images.

Checking how ZFS compares against ext4 for my NAS, with an encrypted RAID1 array.

Review of Yars: Recharged for the Nintendo Switch with a focus on Mission 29 (Wingman)

A post talking about the concept of attributing scores while reviewing media

Strategic plan my ass, more like a 15 million euro donation.

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 ...

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Archiving the old blog CSS. Just in case.

I like things that make me think.

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.

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

There are a lot of meanings of the term “model” in machine learning and machine learning-adjacent fields. Depending o...

Leaving the autoresearch loop going, the LLM was able to make 7.8% progress on the distillation task. I saw Andrej Ka...

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 ...

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

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.

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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...