Test-Driven Development with an LLM for Fun and Profit
Welcome to the very first post in a new blog! Here I will discuss software development, SRE work, and other fun stuff. Sometimes an idea is just too good to pass up. I hope this blog will motivate me to turn sparks and little pieces into general knowledge in writing the words down. The other […]
The Conundrum of Life’s Origin
Explore In their attempts to pin down the meaning of “life,” scientists and philosophers have offered dozens of definitions. Lately, researchers more or less agree that, for something to be alive, it has to be able to reproduce and evolve by natural selection. While these attempts might be getting us incrementally closer to understanding what […]
Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel from Thin Air
2 min read Alfred Poor is the former editor of Health Tech Insider and a contributor to IEEE Spectrum. Stanford University researchers tested their ammonia production device in different spots, including on campus. Lots of green energy experiments in the lab publish impressive results—but what’s more impressive is when those results come from an actual […]
No Calls
When I first started Keygen, I had this idea in my head that I could create a company where I never had to get on a sales call — or any call. Being an introvert, I absolutely hated calls. They’re not only awkward, but a 30 minute call takes up hours of my headspace. I […]
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
ZADZMO code This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it’s targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM’s – but really, like the plants it is named after, it’ll eat just about anything that finds it’s way inside. It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of […]
Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too
I waste too much time scrolling through social media. It’s bad for my health, so why do I keep doing it? Because once in a while, I’ll find a post so good that it teaches me something I never knew before, and all the scrolling feels worth it. But I’ve stumbled upon an old piece […]
Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
In May of 1694, in a lecture hall at the University of Cambridge, Isaac Newton and the astronomer David Gregory started to contemplate the nature of the stars, only to end up with a math puzzle that would persist for centuries. The details of their conversation were poorly recorded and are possibly apocryphal — it […]
Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian
The BananaPi M71 2 aka ArmSoM-Sige73 has attractive specs for use as an efficient but capable device for small-scale server deployment. As it’s performant enough to be interesting for real-world mixed workloads with some margin, it makes sense to consider it as a KVM hypervisor. Very relevant for setting up a small private cloud (雲立て […]
Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket
Early on Thursday morning, a Saturn V-sized rocket ignited its seven main engines, a prelude to lifting off from Earth. But then, the New Glenn rocket didn’t move. And still, the engines produced their blue flame, furiously burning away methane. The thrust-to-weight of the rocket must have been in the vicinity of 1.0 to 1.2, […]