Bring back MiniDV with this Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT In my last post, I showed you to use FireWire on a Raspberry Pi with a PCI Express IEEE 1394 adapter. Now I’ll show you how I’m using a new FireWire HAT and a PiSugar3 Plus battery to make a portable MRU, or ‘Memory Recording Unit’, to replace tape in

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear. I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a ‘DV’ port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the

Experimenting with Starlette 10 with Claude skills

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

The best laptop Apple ever made Today I posted a video titled The best laptop Apple ever made, and tl;dw1 it’s the 11" MacBook Air. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } I

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uvruffty

Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award I’m on a spring break vacation-plus-lecture-tour with Dana and the kids in Mexico City this week, and wasn’t planning to blog, but I see that I need to make an exception. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the Turing Award, for their seminal contributions to quantum computing and information

GPT-54 mini and GPT-54 nano which can describe 76000 photos for 52

On Montgomery County public magnet schools a guest post by Daniel Gottesman Scott’s foreword: I’ve known fellow quantum computing theorist Daniel Gottesman, now at the University of Maryland, for a quarter-century at this point. Daniel has been a friend, colleague, coauthor, and one of the people from whom I’ve learned the most in my career. Today he writes about a topic close

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit