Thanksgiving I’m thankful to the thousands of readers of this blog. Well, not the few who submit troll comments from multiple pseudonymous handles, but the 99.9% who don’t. I’m thankful that they’ve stayed here even when events (as they do more and more often) send me into a spiral of doomscrolling
Targeted Use of GNU Tools on macOS using direnv Working with bash scripts on macOS often leads to an interesting predicament. MacOS ships with the BSD variants of sed, date, base64 and others that diverge just enough from their GNU counterparts to cause incompatibilities. Take sed for example: # GNU (Linux) version - works fine sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file.txt # macOS version -
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Home Assistant Yellow - instant 2x IoT speedup with CM5 Home Assistant Yellow - instant 2x IoT speedup with CM5 In a win for modular, private, local IoT, I just upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to a Compute Module 5 this morning,
Raspberry Pi CM5 is 2-3x faster drop-in upgrade mostly Raspberry Pi CM5 is 2-3x faster, drop-in upgrade (mostly) The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is smaller than a credit card, and I already have it gaming in 4K with an eGPU, running a Kubernetes cluster, and I even
Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSVJSON files in your terminal
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LLMs accelerated with eGPU on a Raspberry Pi 5 LLMs accelerated with eGPU on a Raspberry Pi 5 After a long journey getting AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5, we finally have a stable patch for the amdgpu Linux kernel driver, and it works on