How to Securely Erase an old Hard Drive on macOS Tahoe Apparently Apple thinks nobody with a modern Mac uses spinning rust (hard drives with platters) anymore. I plugged in a hard drive from an old iMac into my Mac Studio using my Sabrent USB to SATA Hard Drive enclosure, and opened up Disk Utility, clicked on the top-level disk in the

Notes on Linear Algebra for Polynomials

I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app

Implementing a clear room Z80 ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code Anthropic recently released a blog post with the description of an experiment in which the last version of Opus, the 4.6, was instructed to write a C compiler in Rust, in a “clean room” setup. The experiment methodology left me dubious about the kind of point they wanted to make. Why

National Academy of Engineering I love all forms of engineering so it’s a pleasure to have just been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is a private, independent, nonprofit institution that provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. The NAE advances the welfare

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns

Adding TILs releases museums tools and research to my blog

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Frigate with Hailo for object detection on a Raspberry Pi I run Frigate to record security cameras and detect people, cars, and animals when in view. My current Frigate server runs on a Raspberry Pi CM4 and a Coral TPU plugged in via USB. Raspberry Pi offers multiple AI HAT+’s for the Raspberry Pi 5 with built-in Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L AI

Two new Showboat tools Chartroom and datasette-showboat