All Intel GPUs run on Raspberry Pi and RISC-V We finally have Intel Arc GPUs working on the Pi somewhat stably—it required overcoming many small hurdles, but it looks like support could land in Raspberry Pi OS if we can get a simple patch upstreamed1. If that happens, all you’d need to do to use an Intel card on
Scaling HNSWs I’m taking a few weeks of pause on my HNSWs developments (now working on some other data structure, news soon). At this point, the new type I added to Redis is stable and complete enough, it’s the perfect moment to reason about what I learned about HNSWs, and turn it
Minisforum stuffs an entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
Converting hot dog plasma video to sound with OpenCV When you ground a hot dog to an AM radio tower, it generates plasma. Your browser does not support the video tag. While the hot dog’s flesh is getting vaporized, a tiny plasma arc moves the air around it back and forth. And because this tower is an AM tower,
Video notes on upgrading a Datasette plugin for the latest 10 alpha with help from uv and OpenAI Codex CLI
Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex
UT Austins Statement on Academic Integrity A month ago William Inboden, the provost of UT Austin (where I work), invited me to join a university-wide “Faculty Working Group on Academic Integrity.” The name made me think that it would be about students cheating on exams and the like. I didn’t relish the prospect but I said
Its not that hard to stop a Trane Six years ago, I replaced the old HVAC system that came with our house, a central forced air system installed in 19951. The new system is a Trane XR AC paired with an S9V2 96% efficiency forced-air gas furnace. And it ran great! Better efficiency, quieter, multiple fan speeds so I
A new SQL-powered permissions system in Datasette 10a20