Collaborate Disseminate
Are you making your own decisions and mainlining causality like a sucker? Why go through the agony, when you could hand over the railway switch of determinism to a machine …read more Continue reading The DeDeterminator Uses Quantum Physics To Make Decisions So You Don’t Have To
The design philosophy of Unix is fairly straightforward. Software should do one thing as simply as possible, and do that one thing only. As a design principle this is sound …read more Continue reading suc Aims to Replace Slack in Five Lines of Bash
Tom Nardi and I were talking about his trip to the Vintage Computer Festival on the podcast, and he admitted to not having been a retrocomputer aficionado before his first …read more Continue reading Learning Obsolete Technology
Building a good quality machine shop may seem to present a chicken-and-egg problem, at least for anyone not willing to mortgage their home for the money needed to buy all …read more Continue reading Beginning the Machine Shop Journey with a DIY CNC
Microsoft today announced Azure Percept, its new hardware and software platform for bringing more of its Azure AI services to the edge. Percept combines Microsoft’s Azure cloud tools for managing devices and creating AI models with hardware from Microsoft’s device partners. The general idea here is to make it far easier for all kinds of […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Percept, its new hardware and software platform to bring AI to the edge
The Unix Way™ provides extreme hackability. The idea is that software should be written as tools to accomplish discrete tasks, and that it should be modular, extensible, and play well with others. It’s like software as a LEGO set — …read more
Kipp Bradford wrapped up his keynote talk at the Hackaday Remoticon with a small piece of advice: don’t built bridges in the middle of the ocean. The point is that a bridge must connect two pieces of land to be useful and if technology isn’t useful to humanity, does it …read more
Continue reading Kipp Bradford Discusses the Entanglement of Politics and Technology
A podcast called The Allusionist (hosted by Helen Zaltzman) crossed my path that provided me with a light-bulb moment. The podcast focuses on language and etymology. This particular episode contextualised that focus around a fantastic story with guests… Continue reading Shine Theory / DevOps / Community
Bluntly stated, music is in the end just applied physics. Harmony follows — depending on the genre — a more or less fixed set of rules, and there are a limited amount of variation possible within the space of music itself. So there are technically only so many melodies possible, …read more
Continue reading Brute-Forced Copyrighting: Liberating All The Melodies
Home directories have been a fundamental part on any Unixy system since day one. They’re such a basic element, we usually don’t give them much thought. And why would we? From a low level point of view, whatever location $HOME is pointing to, is a directory just like any other …read more
Continue reading Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home