We are working on a new scheme to replace the GRUB bootloader with a fast, secure, Linux-based, user-space solution: nmbl (for no more boot loader). Most people are familiar with GRUB, a powerful, flexible, fully-featured bootloader that is used on multiple ar…
This post outlines how I used a small 2 inch display as a monitor for my pi. Where it can display tty terminals and X desktops and applications as if it was a normal screen connected over hdmi. My overall goal is to have a sort of handheld “console” that I can…
This blog did so many hits last week that the host platform experienced timeouts. I've been invited onto podcasts, and offered both small technical projects and journalism work, of all things. It was a crazy time. But the internet moves on, as it always does, …
While browsing Hacker News one day, I came across this post. It shows an intense segment of getting MicroPython running on a $3 smartwatch. I was not interested in so much work. But maybe you are. Either way, it got me thinking about MicroPython and tiny porta…
Hallucination in large language models usually refers to the model generating unfaithful, fabricated, inconsistent, or nonsensical content. As a term, hallucination has been somewhat generalized to cases when the model makes mistakes. Here, I would like to nar…
What makes Family, Family.
Many level 2 home chargers plug into a NEMA 14-50R outlet, which is the same type a kitchen range would plug into. A 40A EVSE is considered...
Transform your workplace with a Hogwarts-inspired system of rewards and punishments! By earning points for achievements and losing them for rule-breaking, employees stay motivated and disciplined. …
I’m getting married pretty soon, and I figured it’d be fun to make my own rings. I’d seen a Nile Red video where he made purple gold, and the process seemed simple enough: Make a mold, pour some mol…
Personality basins are the mental model that I use to reason about humans within their environment. They are an elucidating way to think about many concepts: from modelling why people are they way they are, how they change over time, how mental illnesses and a…
I’ve been using large language models - LLMs - and retrieval-augmented generation - RAG - at work for over a year now. I use it to write code, to refine my ideas and writing, and we have been building products on top of it. It’s long overdue fo...
This paper (ICDE'18) introduces Anna, a CALM / CRDT implementation of a distributed key-value system both at the data structure level as w...
ActiveRecord.after_all_transactions_commit ensures specified actions execute only after all database transactions commit, ensuring reliable post-transaction operations.
How to count number of rows read in a query in sqlite
The best kind of software is limited in scope.
We Have Made Science!
This is the fifth article in the recently started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. All the articles in this series can be accessed from he…
“Screenshots won’t get you in”, but Chrome DevTools will. Click here to skip the rant and go straight to the nerdy stuff. I recently purchased tickets to a concert from TicketMaster. If they had issue
Not doing anything with it is exactly the point.
Posted on July 6, 2024 by Jack Kelly
Here are the best and most interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (July 1, 2024 - July 7, 2024). Enjoy!
Technical and non technical thoughts.
With so many new technologies, tools and terms in the world of Generative AI, it can be hard to know where to start or what to learn next. "Generative AI..
Reading code is a Skill (with a capital letter, yes) that is really important for developers. You cannot be a good developer without it.Today I want to talk ...
The .NET runtime exposes multiple metrics through the concept of Event Counters. They were originally introduced in .NET Core as a cross-pla...
Distributed tracing is one of the most useful observability tools you can add to your products. Digging into the steps of some process to see what happened and how long everything took gives you a valuable debugging tool for distributed systems. It's usually s…
.NET natively knows UUID v4 aka Guid.NewGuid(). But with preview 7 we get Version 7 of UUID's natively.
A reawakening of systems programming meetups
A modern Jupyter client for MacOS