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There is no reason for a software development or research tool to use first-person language to describe itself.

Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that.

Does the model “understand” anything?

Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme.

The psychology of LLMs use worries me deeply.

It’s not even black-and-white, it’s gray-and-gray.

My first reaction when I read about the plans of building datacenters in space was "wait, are we sure this is going to work?

I agreed with Marc on all the questions he asked.

Machine learning is amazing if: The problem is too hard to write a rule-based system for or the requirements change sufficiently quickly that it isn't worth writing such a thing and, The value of a correct answer is much higher than the cost of an incorre…

I changed a few things in my homelab since the last post so here we are again with a new post.

But here’s the problem: Writing code is easy.

I started with every page in my bookmarks.

The app was implemented in two pieces: The kernel, written in C, implemented the database, networking, inter-application communication, various built-in data types, script compiler and evaluator and debugger, and so on The scripts used the kernel and impl…

I recently made the Space Invader Generator for Creative Coding Amsterdam code challenge.

I write the content on this website for people, not robots.

Right now, LLMs are an extremely immature technology.

By “surfing the internet” I don’t just mean going online.

That’s the real danger of shortcuts: they make you feel powerful and productive, but can lull you into a false sense of security.

Rust today is the result of significant investments made by forward-looking institutions and the efforts of thousands of individuals who shared a belief in the long-term payoff of what they were building.

Local-First is a neat approach.

One of the most common retorts I get after showing these examples is some form of the statement “but those tasks are easy!

The personal site isn't dead.

A healthy software ecosystem doesn‘t arise by specifying how software should behave and then assuming that implementations will do the right thing.

AI-news are a rollercoaster these days.

If you’re in your early thirties or older, you remember the breakneck pace at which computers were improving in the 90s and 2000s.

This story is as a cautionary tale reminding us the value of critical skills.

#hachyderm costs about $1600/mo to run. this is up somewhat, as we've started to add some infra as part of our resilience plan announced in nov. we currently have about: 55000 users 9700 MAU 3.7M toots yielding: $.03/user/mo $.16/active user/mo $.0004/toot

There is a lot to like in this essay that starts describing a very personal experience and continues with reflections that go deep into anthropology and philosophy territory.

Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.

For a couple of years I've done Advent of Code but that's no longer my thing.

I self-host many services.

It's been a while since I last wrote about my homelab setup.

Due to family commitments, work, and also a few days not feeling great I had less time than I would have liked to use my old computer.

A while ago I came across the old computer challenge on Mastodon and it immediately resonated with me.

I run a few NixOS LXC containers in Proxmox.

I self-host many apps and I’ve realised that the ones I like the most all share these features: single binary single process fully configurable programmatically uses SQLite if it needs a database frugal with resources My goal is to have an app that can be…

About a month ago I explained what wasn’t working well with my homelab.

I have been running the setup I described in August and while I have been fairly happy with it I think I haven't got everything 100% right: I have a stateful VM that don't really fit well with the rest of my model.

I own a Growatt solar inverter and I decided it would be nice to collect some of the data it emits.

I've enjoyed playing with my homelab for a few months and now it reached a state that I am comfortable sharing.