Collaborate Disseminate
An occasional series of mine on these pages has been Daily Drivers, in which I try out operating systems from the point of view of using them for my everyday …read more Continue reading Jenny’s (Not Quite) Daily Drivers: Raspberry Pi 1
With all the attention on LLMs (Large Language Models) and image generators lately, it’s nice to see some of the more niche and unusual applications of machine learning. GARF (Generalizeable 3D …read more Continue reading Software Project Pieces Broken Bits Back Together
Have you ever felt the urge to make your own private binary format for use in Linux? Perhaps you have looked at creating the smallest possible binary when compiling a …read more Continue reading Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support
Incomplete JSON (such as from a log that terminates unexpectedly) doesn’t parse cleanly, which means anything that usually prints JSON nicely, won’t. Frustration with this is what led [Simon Willison] …read more Continue reading The Incomplete JSON Pretty Printer (Brought To You By Vibes)
Lots of people swear by large-language model (LLM) AIs for writing code. Lots of people swear at them. Still others may be planning to exploit their peculiarities, according to [Joe …read more Continue reading Vibe Check: False Packages a New LLM Security Risk?
Once the domain of esoteric scientific and business computing, floating point calculations are now practically everywhere. From video games to large language models and kin, it would seem that a …read more Continue reading Using Integer Addition to Approximate Float Multiplication
3D scanning is becoming much more accessible, which means it’s more likely that the average hacker will use it to solve problems — possibly odd ones. That being the case, …read more Continue reading If You’re 3D Scanning, You’ll Want a Way To Work with Point Clouds
A spectrometer is one of those tools that many of us would love to have, but just can’t justify the price of. Sure there are some DIY options out there, …read more Continue reading Software Hacks Unlock Cheap Spectrometer
We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of the developers of Tronbyt — a replacement firmware and self-hosted backend that breaks the …read more Continue reading Open Source Framework Aims to Keep Tidbyt Afloat
It doesn’t matter if its a Vespa or a Peterbilt truck — if you ignore the maintenance needs of your vehicle, you do so at your own peril. But it …read more Continue reading Keep Tabs on Your Vehicle’s Needs with LubeLogger