ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope

My Nutty Extremist Beliefs In nearly twenty years of blogging, I’ve unfortunately felt more and more isolated and embattled. It now feels like anything I post earns severe blowback, from ridicule on Twitter, to pseudonymous comment trolls, to scary and aggressive email bullying campaigns. Reflecting on this, though, I came to see that such

Why make software If you want to leave a lasting legacy—some durable remnant of your brief existence that will ripple forth into the future and leave an imprint on hearts and minds of future generations—you might be wise to dedicate your life to pursuits other than the creation of software. Writing, painting, architecture,

Shrink Your Symbol Fonts Create a Custom Font Subset with Just the Glyphs You Need Imagine you’re sprucing up your website. You want crisp, scalable icons for RSS, Twitter, Instagram, and/or GitHub. You are no designer and you don’t want to mess around creating SVGs, so you opt for a symbol font - an excellent

Realizing Meshtastics Promise with the T-Deck Realizing Meshtastic’s Promise with the T-Deck Meshtastic—a simple off-grid mesh network used to transfer short messages—is a neat bit of tech, but until recently, most development has focused on little nodes with or without tiny OLED displays, and a

Implementing Raft Part 4 - KeyValue Database

3rd Party PoE HATs for Pi 5 add NVMe fit inside case 3rd Party PoE HATs for Pi 5 add NVMe, fit inside case Today I published a video detailing my testing of three new Raspberry Pi HATs—these HATs all add on PoE+ power and an NVMe SSD slot, though the

Git Aliases for the Lazy and Grug Brained I’ll admit that I am lazy, have a terrible memory and generally fit the archetype of the grug brained developer. As such I endeavour to make my life as easy as possible, ideally with as little effort as possible. Usually this manifests as me doing some work up front to make

Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement

Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming After I saw Pineboards 4K Pi 5 external GPU gaming demo at Maker Faire Hanover, I decided it was time to set up my GPU test rig and