31 December 2022

26 links · Saturday

Large-Scale Vehicle Classification – Pickled ML

As a hobby project over the past few weeks, I’ve been training neural networks to predict the prices of cars in photographs. Anybody with some experience in ML can probably guess what I did, at least on a high level: I scraped terabytes of data from the intern…

Improving color quantization heuristics

In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article.

Raspberry Pi security alarm — the basics

In November last year — I started building a DIY security alarm system, using a Raspberry Pi as the controller. My plan was to make a self-sustained system, using proper alarm hardware — like PIR sensors and sirens. Integration with Home Assistant would be an …

Part of the wrong 1% — Ostomy surgery, part 2

About 1 percent of Americans have diagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) like Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis. And about 1 in 500 Americans (0.2%) have ostomies—small openings called stomas that help when their bowels get really screwed up (whether t…

Effective Error Handling

A simple an effective approach for handling end users who struggle with errors

Make Your Types Smaller

Persistent models tend to be where primitive obsession creeps in. Make your types more specific so you avoid paying the cost of having to sprinkle validation code throughout your system.

2022 Sucked

The Website of Scott P. Scheper of San Diego, California.

Ivan on Containers, Kubernetes, and Backend Development

Hello friends! Ivan's here - this time not with a traditional monthly round-up but with a full-blown annual recap of the posts, streams, projects, and anything else that can help you master Kubernetes, containers, and the server-side craft. Let's begin! Kubern…

sup

When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each other we could open up the Command Prompt a…

Notice on API data disclosure incident

Notice on API data disclosure incident