Featured post what's this? ✨ My Struggles Talking to An Old Piece Of Junk (Fanuc 0M) | Nia Schlegel This February I became the proud owner of an old Hermle UWF 851 vertical machining center. An industrial CNC mill with tool changer and everything. I already had a FoxAlien Masuter Pro (which seems laughable in comparison) and a lot of 3D-printing experie...
Opensource AI Must Win Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.
Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group sued publication over reports that Switzerland rejected its approaches
All about electric motors with no rare earths As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.
How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS Running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative decoding, multimodal support, and PI as a coding agent.
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the…
“Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?” Can ChatGPT replace translators? A freelance translator shares a funny Ottawa story about AI translation, professional judgment and why human expertise still matters.
F-bombs don’t make LLMs smarter Imagine someone asks you to solve a math puzzle right after you stepped on a LEGO brick. Are you going to do better or worse than the baseline? Relatedly, can we make LLMs step on LEGO bricks?
How to Build an Effective Lexicon for Product Teams - scapellato.dev How simple event design creates clarity across product, data, and engineering
Illuminated Computing | My Claude Code Setup I seem to have an unusual way of running Claude Code, but I find it a good trade-off between convenience and security.
Vibe Trading - Gibberish and Stuff The old internet was a niche community. Only a few nerds were there. Then every September, a batch of university freshmen would join, causing a lot of annoyance. But it was okay, because they...
Introduction to UEFI HTTP(S) boot with Qemu/OVMF The historic go-to solution for network booting is PXE. PXE is based on DHCP and TFTP. It is tricky to correctly configure, even trickier to make it highly available and good luck with the security with this clear-text unsigned protocol.
Sandboxes Are Not Security - Jelmer Snoeck Software Engineer writing about infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Go
Twenty Years of Stacking Commits — jd:/dev/blog Every code review tool I've used in twenty years has tried to answer the same question. AI just made the answer unavoidable.
My Struggles Talking to An Old Piece Of Junk (Fanuc 0M) | Nia Schlegel This February I became the proud owner of an old Hermle UWF 851 vertical machining center. An industrial CNC mill with tool changer and everything. I already had a FoxAlien Masuter Pro (which seems laughable in comparison) and a lot of 3D-printing experie...
Building a tiny FUSE filesystem Building a small filesystem in Rust with metadata in JSON and file contents in plain local files, using FUSE to explore inodes, caching, and what it means for a write to become durable.
How it feels to be an old school web-based sports sim dev when tons of vibecoded web-based sports sims are being released « Blog « ZenGM Back when I started working on the web-based version of Basketball GM in 2012, web development was very different. npm was brand new and hardly anyone used it. Bundling/deploying JS was very primitive, a lot of people still were just concatenating files t...
4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave Converting four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards to waterblocks, finding a VRM choke loose on the workbench, and getting back to 41k tok/s.
Ignore what everyone else is doing I check Hacker News and Lobsters all the time. It's sort of like an addiction, or maybe just a bad habit. It started about three years ago when I would post blog links on the two platforms. Which Lobsters banned me for. Apparently self promotion is wrong....
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime The FCC is proposing to require KYC for anyone who uses a phone. We can act now to stop further erosion of our privacy.
You can finally power on a Mac remotely Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not w...
I can never fully embrace LLMs for code My younger sister graduated with a CompSci degree a few years ago. I've been behind her, motivating her and demystifying the world of programming from the very beginning. There was a piece of advice I
AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42 - Lan Tian @ Blog An AI agent tried to join the DN42 hobbyist network to perform a network scan, and bankrupted their operator with a $6531.30 AWS bill.
