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VA East Storehouse and Operation Mincemeat in London

Implementing Forth in Go and C

Reverse Engineering ALL the Raspberry Pis Reverse Engineering ALL the Raspberry Pis Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark’s effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5. i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5!

TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing A few years ago, I admit it was rare to find someone running Arm hardware more powerful than a Raspberry Pi in a homelab (or more serious) setting, outside of cloud providers

Build log Macintosh Classic Build log: Macintosh Classic Continuing the retro computer series, I’ve recently completed the first part of a restoration of my Aunt’s old Macintosh Classic. This Classic was handed to me alongside my Uncle Mark’s Apple II, which I’ll probably cover

Jellyfin on macOS for a quick self-hosted media library Jellyfin on macOS for a quick self-hosted media library I forgot to bring my portable Pi media server running Jellyfin on a family trip, but had a small selection of my ripped movie and TV show library on my

Habit experiment 2 Self-directed study In The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, Alan Jacobs suggests that one of the best ways to choose what to read is to practice what he calls “reading at Whim.” Whim (note the capital-W), Jacobs argues, is fundamentally different than regular old whim. Here’s how he describes

The Summer of Johann prompt injections as far as the eye can see

Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

Updates (1) My 8-year-old son asked me last week, “daddy, did you hear that GPT-5 is now out?” So yes, I’m indeed aware that GPT-5 is now out! I’ve just started playing around with it. For detailed reports on what’s changed and how impressive it is compared to previous models, see