I built a pint-sized Macintosh To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans’ Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at
Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old ‘Thingamablog’ version
Redis patterns for coding Here LLM and coding agents can find: 1. Exhaustive documentation about Redis commands and data types. 2. Patterns commonly used. 3. Configuration hints. 4. Algorithms that can be mounted using Redis commands. https://redis.antirez.com/ Some humans claim this documentation is actually useful for actual people, as well :) I’m posting this to make sure search engines will
Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials
Anthropic Stay strong I don’t have time to write a full post right now, but hopefully this is self-explanatory. Regardless of their broader views on the AI industry, the eventual risks from AI, or American politics, right every person of conscience needs to stand behind Anthropic, as they stand up for their right
Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate In 2024 I built a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez’s Interceptor 1U Case, and installed it in my 19" rack. Using a Coral TPU for object detection, it’s been dutifully surveilling my property—on my terms (100% local, no cloud integration or account required). I’ve wanted to downsize the setup while keeping
How to Securely Erase an old Hard Drive on macOS Tahoe Apparently Apple thinks nobody with a modern Mac uses spinning rust (hard drives with platters) anymore. I plugged in a hard drive from an old iMac into my Mac Studio using my Sabrent USB to SATA Hard Drive enclosure, and opened up Disk Utility, clicked on the top-level disk in the
Notes on Linear Algebra for Polynomials
I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app
Implementing a clear room Z80 ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code Anthropic recently released a blog post with the description of an experiment in which the last version of Opus, the 4.6, was instructed to write a C compiler in Rust, in a “clean room” setup. The experiment methodology left me dubious about the kind of point they wanted to make. Why