Heavydeck developer blog

I own a regular car, and I used to own a fairly decent bike, barely out of the ordinary with off the shelf parts and only minor upgrades.

With the advent of LLMs everywhere it is interesting to have a way to prevent or at least make it costly for scrappers to obtain content from your site at places where you don’t want web scrappers to read it while people on a browser can.

Another quick thing I did.

Wireless lan spectrum is crowded, especially if you live on a city or on a flat block, where every other dozen meters there’s a router with default settings competing for the 5GHz band (We won’t even talk about the 2.4GHz band, it is a lost cause) however,

So I needed to do some analog video capture from a SEGA Master System 2, which only has a single RF out connector, so I decided it was time to put the old trusty BT 878 card to work, only issue was, my current PC lacks a PCI slot.

Me and a group of friends decided to organize a vacation for a fairly large group of people, including accommodation.

A thunderbolt and an Ethernet port.

I installed the UEFI shell on my ARM laptop since, due to some bug, rEFInd is unable to launch on it, and I needed something to quickly set up and modify the UEFI boot configuration.

My ISP claims to give me a symmetric 500Mb/s connection (50MB/s effectively) but, when starting any significant download, the download speed halts to a crawl.

From my previous encounter with airplane WiFi a few years ago I had the chance to repeat the same experiment I did back then and check if the Internet feels more like something out of this century and I have to say, things have improved.