Notes & observations
Technical notes, experiments, benchmarks, and the occasional trip down a very specific rabbit hole.
A website of the mispronounced…
The question was simple enough: How good of an image editor can you build with $20 worth of Claude Code Pro subscription? The answer, after one month and roughly that budget, is: surprisingly good, occasionally wrong …
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The question was simple enough: How good of an image editor can you build with $20 worth of Claude Code Pro subscription? The answer, after one month and roughly that budget, is: surprisingly good, occasionally …
Sorting a terabyte of data in the late 1990s meant serious hardware, serious planning, and probably a serious budget approval process. Today you can do it on a workstation before lunch. I wanted to know how …
Exploring storage savings of blk-archive across AI-style datasets, compared against tar + gzip.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools, but their unchecked proliferation carries technical, ethical, and professional consequences for software developers and the industry at large.
Introduction & background information NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation So what is bcachefs? bcachefs is a next-generation copy-on-write …
The ability to write a C shared library in rust has been around for some time and there is quite a bit of information about the subject available. Some examples: Exposing C and Rust APIs: some thoughts from …
I firmly believe that security through obscurity is a fail. However, I do believe that all things being equal, making it a bit more obscure is better as long as you aren’t introducing more failure points, …
I saw this referenced today on lwn.net IMHO if you make a language incompatible with previous versions it should be renamed. I’ve thought this many times with the python2 -> python3 change. I suppose …
I used to like Python. Like others I enjoy the productivity it offers and the vast and plentiful libraries that exist. However, over time that fondness has turned to loathing. The thing that should have been …
Ideally it would be great if a DBUS server side library provided Fully implements the functionality needed for common interfaces (Properties, ObjectManager, Introspectable) in a sane and easy way and …