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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…
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.
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
A conceptual model for thinking about time in programming that encapsulates the complexity that many programmers cite online
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.
Why you should write more toy programs
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.
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.
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.
After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.
Making sure I don’t forget what I read.
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.
Solving LinkedIn Queens in the LogicT monad
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.
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.
i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
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.
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…
A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions
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…
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.
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…
What happened?
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
How difficult could it really be?
Exploring the math behind hash collisions.
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.
"...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..."
