A PTP Wall Clock is impractical and a little too precise After seeing Oliver Ettlin’s 39C3 presentation Excuse me, what precise time is It?, I wanted to replicate the PTP (Precision Time Protocol) clock he used live to demonstrate PTP clock sync: I pinged him on LinkedIn inquiring about the build (I wasn’t the only one!), and shortly thereafter, he published Gemini2350/ptp-wallclock,
Moar Updatez To start on a somber note: those of us at UT Austin are in mourning this week for Savitha Shan, an undergrad double major here in economics and information systems, who was murdered over the weekend by an Islamist terrorist who started randomly shooting people on Sixth Street, apparently angry
Can coding agents relicense open source through a clean room implementation of code
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
I built a pint-sized Macintosh To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans’ Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at
Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old ‘Thingamablog’ version
Redis patterns for coding Here LLM and coding agents can find: 1. Exhaustive documentation about Redis commands and data types. 2. Patterns commonly used. 3. Configuration hints. 4. Algorithms that can be mounted using Redis commands. https://redis.antirez.com/ Some humans claim this documentation is actually useful for actual people, as well :) I’m posting this to make sure search engines will
Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials
Anthropic Stay strong I don’t have time to write a full post right now, but hopefully this is self-explanatory. Regardless of their broader views on the AI industry, the eventual risks from AI, or American politics, right every person of conscience needs to stand behind Anthropic, as they stand up for their right
Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate In 2024 I built a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez’s Interceptor 1U Case, and installed it in my 19" rack. Using a Coral TPU for object detection, it’s been dutifully surveilling my property—on my terms (100% local, no cloud integration or account required). I’ve wanted to downsize the setup while keeping