6001
OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.
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6002
Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux
For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. Table of ContentsBackgroundRecreating the MRZPython code to…
6003
Community Is Motivation on Tap
A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here.
6004
How renewables are saving Texans billions
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
6005
How to Think About Time in Programming
A conceptual model for thinking about time in programming that encapsulates the complexity that many programmers cite online
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6007
Fun with uv and PEP 723
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.
6008
Writing toy software is a joy
Why you should write more toy programs
6009
Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.
6010
The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization
Highlights the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's fragility and review the Byte Latent Transformer arch.
6011
Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now.
6012
A new PNG spec
After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
6013
Basic Facts about GPUs
Making sure I don’t forget what I read.
6014
Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
I noticed about a 10x speed up across a number of projects, we'll avoid using a venv and run things as a non-root user too.
6015
Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell
Solving LinkedIn Queens in the LogicT monad
6016
Can your terminal do emojis? How big?
Emojis are great. They're particularly useful to put in the output of scripts and get some eye catching output. At least provided they aren't overused, just like colour.
6017
I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui
This is just a personal experience, there are no absolute truths. Like in any other blog post, a lot of the things you'll read here could be just a skill issue, or legitimate issues. It's up to you to decide.
6018
How I use my terminal
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
6019
How much slower is random access, really?
You may know that, because your computer has different caches (L1, L2, L3...), and memory operations operate on cache lines of about 64 bytes each, you should write programs that exhibit locality to get maximum performance.
6020
Making TRAMP faster
I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol). TRAMP is an Emacs package that let’s you treat a remote host like a local system, similar…
6021
Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions
6022
The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
6023
I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst
I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.
6024
Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
Preamble# The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate…
6025
The cultural decline of literary fiction
What happened?
6026
Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
6027
Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers
How difficult could it really be?
6028
The probability of a hash collision (2022)
Exploring the math behind hash collisions.
6029
TPU Deep Dive
I've been working with TPUs a lot recently and it's fun to see how they had such different design philosophies compared to GPUs.
6030
Requiem for a Solar Plant
"...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..."