Updated December 17, 2024

Skip to content #### Updated December 17th, 2024. **What’s Going On?** -------------------- * **I executive produced “Screens,”** a Japanese film about two long-distance lovers who find their screen addiction threatens their real-world bond. * **I recently spoke at Techsylvania 2024** * **Are you reading my WTF Journal?** – Every day, I ask myself, What’s The Future? Then I take detailed notes and store them in a journal. Writing ------- **The Japanese Handbook**— I’ve co-authored a book with Maria Telincho that takes readers on an immersive 90-day journey that blends language learning with rich Japanese cultural experiences. **The Metaverse Handbook** – I wrote the go-to guide for understanding the next big technological shift toward the metaverse. Crazy enough, **my book was** **featured in Harvard Business Review**! **Creating** ------------ **LearnJapanese.com** – I’m working on a platform to help people learn Japanese anywhere in a non-boring way with native speakers. **Famous Finder**: I’ve been building a Shopify app that allows you to quickly identify celebrities and influencers who order from your Shopify store. **Learning** ------------ **Japanese —** Most of my downtime is spent learning to speak and write Japanese. It’s a tedious language, but thanks to **LearnJapanese.com,** I’m sticking with it. **Google Gemini (and other Generative AIs)** **–** AI drives massive efficiencies in ways no other tech product can, I’m constantly learning how to utilize Gen AI in my everyday life. Occasionally, I even participate in a Gen AI hackathon.  **This is a now page** – If you have your own site, **you should make one, too**.

Updated December 15, 2024

I’m a full-time marketing advisor and this site is dedicated to paying forward what I’ve learned by helping my peers build successful marketing practices. Quick backstory --------------- Back in 2017, I came to the realization that I didn’t want to build a big agency. I was doing web design and digital marketing for B2B businesses with a team of distributed contractors. It was working, but it didn’t feel right. Like you, I was doing too much, burning myself out, and could never really turn off my brain at night. I was always on-call. Always thinking about the next due date. Always wondering why my margins weren’t higher at the end of the day. My niche—owner-managed B2B services companies—was too broad. I had no real competitive advantage. No negotiating leverage. I was making a good living but was working _hard_ for it. I knew if I wanted to grow I had to make a change. I _could_ use my skills to build a “real” agency—with employees, project managers, and an office to bring it all together. But the thought of that frankly didn’t appeal to me at all. **It was then I realized I could focus instead on the parts I enjoyed most—the _strategy and leadership_ part of marketing.** I could then _guide_ my clients to their goals as an impartial advisor and “producer” of sorts—that’s where the most value came from anyway. The model immediately felt more aligned with my clients’ interests. **That’s when I began to phase my work into advisory model and never looked back.** Since 2017, I’ve sold over ~US$1M.5 in advisory services with an average retainer value of under $3,500/month and an effective hourly rate of over $500/hour. There’s a fair few advisory miles—or kilometres, since I’m Canadian—in my shoes. And I still consult to this day, making up most of my time and income. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I do have experience to share and lessons to teach. And I’m still in the game, innovating on the model and sharing what’s working (or not working). I hope you will join us on this journey in the Mindshare community or subscribe to get my best ideas delivered semi-weekly to your inbox. —kw Fun facts --------- I was born in Ireland. In the 80’s, my family immigrated to Ontario, Canada, where we’ve lived ever since. My wife wishes I had stayed in Ireland long enough to develop an Irish accent. Sadly, I do not have an Irish accent. Claim to fame: In high school, I was the captain of most of my rugby teams (with the injuries to prove it) and lead singer of a metal band (which shall remain nameless). I have a degree in Philosophy which has surprisingly helped me a lot in my business work (and life, of course). I am a proud father of two amazing children, husband, and owner of a loyal and loving dog.🐶

Updated December 14, 2024

Twenty years ago, I bought a piece of the Internet by registering this domain, xavierroy.com. I know it has been neglected now and then but it has always been the playground for me to learn and experiment with various web technologies. Whatever I know about HTML, CSS, WordPress and other adjacent tools all come from this sandbox of mine. I just hope it still continues to do so over coming years too. Happy 20th!!! When fiction books star adding robots.txt in print versions 😂

Updated December 13, 2024

What I’m doing now ------------------ last updated: Friday 13th December 2024 Life is a hectic affair; To help keep me sane and to give me some guidance, these are my current areas of focus: Photography ----------- Improving my photography Work ---- Continuing to promote and improve both of the guilds I’ve Devoting time out to meetup regularly with my mentor(s) for a coffee Making a better effort to attend more local industry event ### Movies and TV **_In the queue_** Reading ------- **_In the queue_** Projects -------- Build both my photography, and my bucket list sites. ### This site Tweaking, improving, and growing my online home

Updated December 13, 2024

_Hello world_ 👋 * Me * 👉 /about me * Developer 👨‍💻 * welcome.rozendo.dev * Brazilian 🇧🇷 living in Portugal 🇵🇹 * He/Him * Resume: cv.Gabriel.Rozendo.dev * Entrepreneur 👨‍💼 * LinkedIn: _GabrielRozendo_ * Telegram: _@GabrielRozendo_ * About Ideas Now .com * /about * /ideas * /now * this * Made with Hugo * Theme: nostyleplease * rss * Goal: * Public space and index * List some projects * Posts 🔜 * 2024-12-13 Readeck * 2024-12-13 Hugo

Updated December 11, 2024

Void Subject Matter Expert A few days ago, I was doing some Typescript work and went to search for a specific NPM package that I needed the docs for. I generally use DuckDuckGo these days, so I popped in my search and got back some results. These results were a bit odd: Having made a living off of writing C for a few years, I don’t like it when we get random looking byte strings in outputs. We’ve all seen the likes of (Heart|Cloud)Bleed and know that those random byte strings could be anything. Searching further, it’s not just the package I was searching for that has this issue (https://archive.is/gURQv, archived from the original): ... I’m procrastinating writing my Monitorama talk, so here’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while: Is there a space for Serverless applications in the Open Source world? We’ve built up a huge ecosystem of tooling to help us run serverless applications. We have platforms, we have observability, we even have databases, kv stores, queues, and everything else that we could possibly want to deploy an application. So why are there no open source serverless applications? ... Every now and then on my OS journey I find weird things. Today is one of those days. When implementing my login system, I was looking at the standard login files - /etc/group, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow. Those are all well known and normal, right? Well imagine my surprise when a file I’ve never heard of popped up: /etc/gshadow. For the uninitiated, on Linux you have a set of groups that your user is a member. You can see them with id: ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. Recently, I went about implementing a login system for our operating system. I had a general idea of how to do this - users are stored in /etc/passwd, password hashes are stores in /etc/shadow, so we should read a username and password from the terminal, check the password against the password hash, and log the user in if it’s correct. Sounds simple enough, right? Well… there’s a surprising amount of complexity in that “check the password against the password hash” step, and to reveal it we’re going to have to talk about crypt(3). ... In prepping for the next part of my OS journey (writing an init system!), I found a need to add pipelining to my shell. This entry is a quick jaunt into how that works. All the code we break down here can be found here. What actually is a pipe? Before we talk about a pipeline, it’s useful to know what a pipe is. Fundementally, a pipe is two File Descriptors (read: files, yes it’s a bit more complicated but bear with me), where what is written to one end of the pipe is readable in the other. Note that this isn’t a two way communication - one file descriptor is the input, and one is the output. ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. I had intended this entry to be a simple one. I really did. We were going to use the nix binding of the mount function to create a tiny binary that takes a device and a mount point and mounts it. Literally three lines of code. ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. I love a good shell. There’s really nothing better than the raw control of your computer that a shell unlocks. Running programs that do things is all well and good, but man, being able to get a good REPL going? Nothing better. ... We learnt previously that an initramfs in Linux is a “CPIO archive”, so I set out to write something that can read and write them, in order to learn more about the format. What I found was an interesting discrepancy between how GNU cpio and the Linux Kernel parse CPIO files. It seems pretty innocuous, but I thought I’d document it for posterity. The CPIO header CPIO is an exceedingly simple format. At its heart, CPIO archives are a list of entries where each entry comprises a header, a file name, and the file data. The header itself is basically a stat output: ... Let’s go on an adventure. I’ve learnt a lot more Rust over the last year, and I want to get back into writing properly, so my plan is to write a Linux Operating System. While writing it, I’ll be taking notes in my repo - https://github.com/sinkingpoint/qos/tree/main/notes . And every now and then formalising them into more structured blog posts over here, once I’ve learnt enough to make something interesting. Welcome to the first of such formalisations: Getting something booting. ... If you’ve used the ELK stack, you’ve probably had the joy of trying to share a Kibana URL with someone. If you were naive enough to just copy the link from your browser (rather than creating a shortlink), you’re faced with something that looks like this monstrosity: https://kibana/app/discover#/?\_g=(filters:!(),refreshInterval:(pause:!t,value:0),time:(from:now-15m,to:now))&\_a=(columns:!(\_source),filters:!(),index:ea073d70-8ed6-11ea-88e9-39648e0749be,interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'machine:%20164%20AND%20service:%20fun-times'),sort:!()) Discover is right Kibana URL, although we may have a bit of trepidation over what we’ve just discovered, because what are those ?\_g and ?\_a parameters? ...

Updated December 11, 2024

Welcome to Tea and Tech Time where all technology is met with a nice cup of tea. Below you will find a list of topics that I am interested in and for which I have created projects, software, tutorials, and electronics. Topics ------ * 3D Printing * Conference * Docker * Drones * DSP * EDC * Electronics * Film * FPGA * Image Processing * MATLAB * Photography * RF * SDR * Software Hi, my name is Tom Schucker, I am a Computer Engineer with a passion for new technology and making cool things! I wanted to start this blog to document my projects and to share my experiences with different gadgets and products that I use. I have a wide variety of hobbies that mostly revolve around… Continue reading About Feel free to get in touch via email or any of the social media links below! Email: tom@teaandtechtime.com Twitter: @tdsepsilon Instagram: @teaandtechtime or @hallowed\_halides Almost all of my blog posts are full projects but as I iterate on an idea I will list the related posts here for convenience. 36Exp Film iOS Camera App 2.4GHz Antenna Design I spent many hours in front of the computer running antenna simulations in Matlab and was able to successfully create my own… Continue reading Projects “I love reading this blog for all fun things tech with my cup of tea. Great addition to my morning routine.”

Updated December 10, 2024

Dec 10, 2024 ### Should you have a hackweek? Should the company really go on pause to play around? Aug 9, 2023 ### Simple Rust Patterns Me playing with Strategy and Factory in Rust Jun 29, 2022 ### A Staff-shaped Hole Almost nobody has an effective Staff+ program Jan 29, 2021 ### On Hiring Staff Engineers Pitching & Hiring at the higher levels of engineering Oct 28, 2020 ### Extreme Debugging Debugging without source or symbols, alternatively, "Where there's a will there's a way" Jul 10, 2019 ### You Too Can Build A Kernel/Hypervisor Part 1 — Preliminaries I built the skeleton of an arm64 kernel on qemu to (at least attempt) demystify it. Jul 3, 2019 ### My Hugo SciFi Reader (1953–1963) My reviews + recommendations of the first decade of Hugo Aware Winning books! Jul 3, 2019 ### Certificates: A Primer A handy explanation for the fields in a digital certificate. May 14, 2019 ### I Have A Binary, But Where Is Main? Exploring the innards of an ELF binary to find the physical location of main. Apr 13, 2019 ### Manually linking Rust binaries to support out-of-tree LLVM passes Sometimes you want to support some crazy LLVM features in Rust and need manual control over the linking process :-). Aug 27, 2018 ### Translation Workbench I built a tool to help make translating Japanese easier. Jun 29, 2018 ### Network Managed Raspberry Pis for a Shippable Datacenter In a former life I spent a lot of time thinking about how to turn an empty room with chillers, some dark fiber, and a pallet of blank servers into a functioning production datacenter. Apr 6, 2018 ### Toward a better technical interview Technical interviewing doesn't have to be so broken.

Updated December 8, 2024

* Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18 Posted Dec 8, 2024 As with previous iOS versions, let’s analyze the built-in apps of iOS 18 to answer a few questions: How many binaries does iOS 18 contain? Which programming languages were used to develop these apps? How many apps are written in Swift? What percentage of apps use SwiftUI versus UIKit? * Apple’s use of AppKit, Catalyst, Swift and SwiftUI in macOS Sonoma Posted Nov 28, 2023 Last month, I analyzed the programming languages and UI frameworks used to create iOS 17. This month, let’s analyze macOS from OS X El Capitan 10.11 to the latest macOS Sonoma 14 and answer a few questions: What is the total count of binaries within macOS Sonoma? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? How many apps are using Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI versus AppKit? * Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 Posted Oct 19, 2023 Now that iOS 17 is available, let’s analyze its built-in apps to answer a few questions: How many binaries are in iOS 17? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? What is the percentage of apps using SwiftUI versus UIKit? * Charts in Markdown using Apache ECharts Posted Jun 27, 2023 With this blog approaching 15 years of existence, it was time to add support for the long overdue Dark Mode. As part of this update, I also made significant changes to the charts that help visualize the data in the different posts. The content of the posts, including this one, are written using Markdown, and processed using Hugo, a popular open-source static site generator. * Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 16 Posted Oct 5, 2022 iOS 16 was just released so let’s analyze its built-in apps. Like in the past years, I will try to answer a couple of questions: How many binaries are in iOS 16? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? What is the percentage of apps using SwiftUI versus UIKit? * Apple’s use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS Posted Aug 18, 2022 The WWDC 2019 had a major impact on the UI toolkit landscape: while the venerable AppKit APIs remained available, Apple removed the old Carbon APIs and introduced 2 brand new frameworks: Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI. Apple sporadically mentioned some apps built with these new UI toolkits. In this article, I try to bring a better overview of Apple’s use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in the different versions of macOS, from macOS Mojave to macOS Ventura. * Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15 Posted Dec 19, 2021 iOS 15 was released a few months ago in September 2021. In this article, I analyze the built-in apps composing iOS 15. How many binaries are in iOS 15? Which programming languages are used to develop these apps? How many apps are written with Swift? Has Apple adopted SwiftUI for some built-in apps? * SwiftLint for Swift Packages Posted Oct 3, 2021 SwiftLint is a great tool to enforce Swift style and conventions. Thanks to the Xcode Build Phases, integrating SwiftLint in an Xcode project is simple: a Build Phase automatically triggers swiftlint when compiling your project. Sadly at the moment, you can’t easily integrate SwiftLint with Swift Packages: A Swift Package has no Build Phases and no way to automatically runs scripts. This article explains how to use a post action script in Xcode to automatically trigger SwiftLint afer a successful Swift Package compilation. * Mac App Store: Embedding a Command Line tool using paths as arguments Posted May 16, 2021 A couple of months ago, I released a new app called Dependencies on the Mac App Store. You can download and try it for free at https://apps.apple.com/app/dependencies/id1538972026. In this article, I explain how I built the command line support and released it in the Mac App Store. Implementing this feature turned out to be tricky, mostly due to the lack of documentation on this specific subject. This post might be of interest if you are planning to add a Command Line tool to your app distributed on the Mac App Store. * Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps Posted Nov 22, 2020 If you followed the recent Apple events, you probably saw a picture of the A14 and M1 dies… that got me thinking about what you would see if you could pass iOS under X-Rays… In my previous article about the evolution of the programming languages from iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14, I analyzed iOS based on the number of binaries and their programming languages. As I pointed out in this past post, the size of the binaries were not taken in account. In this new article, I look at iPhone OS 1.0 and iOS 14 from a size perspective using tree maps.

Updated December 6, 2024

What I’m doing now ------------------ I’m on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast doing… #### Editing Book A: Cut In Half * Final manuscript back from my developmental editor and am working on finishing touches before it goes into production for March 2025 release #### Reading * 12 Week Plan, a non-fiction planning book and also the Daily Stoic #### Other ventures * Several affiliate sites slowly building their worth #### Health/Fitness * Actively building fitness, been able to run again for first time in 15+ years, albeit with a little injury delay #### Selling Books 1, 2 & 3 #### My Agency * Busy as always, new projects, and some new side projects #### Non-Fiction * All versions of the book are selling well you can see more here #### New Fiction Project: One Man * This one is on hold at the moment as it needs a fresh approach Check out other /now pages here. Current as of Dec 06, 2024

Updated December 5, 2024

Updated: 2024-12-05 from Port Vila Vanuatu Worked at Evolution Marketing Services since 2008, which has from November 5th 2024 merged with Optimate.me, which where I am still working, so change of name, but still the same work, which I enjoy. I’ve been fully remote since 2018 and my current role is as a Senior Solution Consultant. I help our clients understand and solve their problems using CRM and Marketing Automation using Agile methods, see about and tools for more info. My primary interests are family, health, travel, productivity (making effective first, efficient second), Personal Knowledge Management, archery, and of course, motorcycling. Current Projects: * Project improving the workflow for staff in SugarCRM for a company specialising medical properties. * Project updating how subscriptions are handled in SugarCRM for an Australian organisation that provides services to educators. Also doing: * Playing with local LLMs and training them on information local to the device, I see locally trained LLMs as useful to both individuals and businesses, where their IP is kept local and not sent to the cloud * Helping with some community work in Vanuatu. * Riding a KTM 250 in Vanuatu, and a Suzuki Bandit 1250 when in Australia. * Visiting more islands in the Pacific The countries I’ve visited, in order of first visit are: 1. **Australia** (One of the two places I live) 2. United States of America (Colorado was fab. New York better than expected) 3. Malaysia (so. many. people.) 4. Thailand (Chang Mai. Felt like home) 5. Germany (Münster, Berlin, Selters Tanus, and more) 6. Denmark (enjoyed the train ride) 7. Sweden (Old Town Stockholm was great, company was even better) 8. Norway (Hurtigruten! Fjords! Dog sleds! WOW!!) 9. Austria (awesome snow) 10. Switzerland (beautiful) 11. **Vanuatu** (The other place I live, message me if you visit) 12. Nepal (mountains are amazing, people beautiful, I _really_ miss the Moo Moo) 13. Spain (Mungia, Bilbao, and more) 14. Croatia (Brač, Dubrovnik, Plitvice Lakes, and Split) 15. Bosnia (would have liked more time here) 16. Italy (Tuscany, Rome) 17. Fiji (Caught up with friends, I’ll be back) I don’t count countries where I didn’t leave the airport, so New Zealand and Qatar haven’t yet made the list (yet) but even with them, I’ve still visited fewer countries than one of my kids, she is the real _globetrotter_! Places on my shortlist to visit next (or again) are, in alphabetical order: * Antarctica * Australia * Botswana * Croatia * Fiji * Germany * India * Madagascar * Mauritius * Mongolia * Nepal * Norway * Spain * Vanuatu (because, you know, that’s where home is) * Zimbabwe See what I use to do my work on the tools page. This page is a direct result of seeing this /now page. You should create your own.

Updated December 4, 2024

Brad Lander ----------- Ricky Robinett and I are cohosting a fundraiser for Brad Lander's Mayoral campaign on Thursday December 12 in Churches -------- My dad was a pastor. Growing up, we lived in the parsonage next to the church he served. I spent Photos from OpenAI DevDay ------------------------- Originally posted over on my other blog at HaiHai Labs, but felt like this post paired nicely with my previous What I talk about when I talk about photography ----------------------------------------------- Thoughts after half-a-million photos. How to fix datapacks "Unknown function" error in Minecraft 1.21 --------------------------------------------------------------- 1.21 changed the name of the functions directory Wes Mak ------- Wes Mak passed away yesterday. He was 39 years old. He leaves behind his wife, three year old daughter, and FDR --- As Rachel drove us out of Brooklyn and up the FDR, I snagged some shots out the window. AI Hack Night Vegas (and David Blaine) -------------------------------------- Last week I was in Vegas for AI Hack Night, hosted by Cloudflare and Coding Scape. I gave a short Low Back Pain ------------- I'm 44 years old, which apparently means that it's time for me and a bunch of Last Days In New York --------------------- Photos from our farewell tour

Updated December 3, 2024

Who? ---- This site is the blog and webcomic of Matt Maldre, a graphic designer and public spaces artist in Chicago. * Encourage creativity in everyone. * Finding the joy in little things. * A new idea every day. * Always be learning, and share what you learn with others. What’s on this site ------------------- This site is a place to share interesting thoughts. Whenever I have an idea for an art project, I’ll post it here and the feedback from others really helps the idea to grow and be much more. I love it when people leave feedback on my ideas. What does “spudart” mean? My approach to street art; and a list of my art projects. Subscribe --------- Join over 500 people who receive creative blog posts once a week (or every day, or every month. You pick the frequency). Social Media ------------ * Bluesky (@spudart.bsky.social) * Facebook Page (Spudart) * Flickr (Spudart) * Mastodon (@spudart@mastodon.social) (don’t use anymore) * Threads (@spudart) (don’t use anymore) * Instagram (@spudart) (don’t use anymore) * Substack Notes (don’t use anymore) * Twitter (don’t use anymore) My websites ----------- * Sharing interesting & creative thoughts on spudart.org for 23 years (first post on September 28, 2001) * Fun with baseball cards, stats, and scorecards on 57hits.com & podcast * Design portfolio on mattmaldre.com (formerly a 12-year-long blog about how to use media better) * Blogging about creativity and faith on christiannotebook.com Day job ------- Senior Designer/Web Marketing Strategist for Tribune Content Agency in the historic Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile of downtown Chicago at home. Some occasional illustration work for them, too. (More details on my LinkedIn profile) Interviews ---------- * The interview with Sixty Inches from Center said, “Matt Maldre who creates probably some of the most non-intrusive, non-defacing, hyper-curious yet completely obvious forms of public art.” * I was the Gapers Block feature of the week for the Arts + Culture section in July 2008. * Chicagoscope interviewed me about my baseball scorecard techniques in August 2006 _(podcast no longer available online)._ * Another interview by Chicagoscope in December 2007. This time, we discussed a handout I designed to help save public transit in Chicago _(podcast no longer available online)._ If you’d like to interview me, I’m open anytime. Let’s get in touch. Influential artists ------------------- * **Joseph Beuys** (The great teacher and artist. Warmth over coldness) * **Jörg Immendorff** (German artist who coined the phrase, “Painting must assume the function of the potato. He makes great paintings too.) * **Christo** (A fantastic installation artist who involves the community and all aspects of life in his art. When he can get the cashier ladies at the grocery store to discuss what art is, oh, dude! That is incredible) * **Edward Hopper** (Great moods established by his work. Amazing colors) * **Jackson Pollock** (The studly artist himself.) * **Starn Twins** (Their work is totally my aesthetic) * **Laszlo Moholy-Nagy** (The master of transparency and structure) * **Erik Maldre** (creative work, my twin) * **Mati Maldre** (my Dad the photography professor) * **Andy Goldsworthy** (incredible arrangements made in nature from rocks, sticks, leaves, etc.) Favorite characters ------------------- Spongebob Squarepants, Balki Bartokomous, and Buddy the Elf are my heroes. Wishlists --------- My Amazon wishlist. It’s got a bunch of books, CDs, games, and other fun things that I’d like to get. Do you have a wish list? Personality Type ---------------- According to the Myers-Briggs personality test, I’m either an INTJ (the Mastermind) or INTP (the Logician, Philosopher). Go ahead and take the personality test. Contact me and let me know what you are. What I like ----------- Theology, croquet, art (art theory, public art, oil pastels), design, structures, stats, metaphors for life, libraries, predicting fog, digging holes, toys, Chicago cubs, how things are made, benches instead of chairs, observing solar flare activity, big thick furniture, wool, welding, wrapping gifts in wacky ways, the color gray, macs, paper airplanes, dirt, window washers. View over 500 of my favorite things. Quick description of my art --------------------------- * About creativity and using everyday objects in a new and interesting way. * Offer a moment of pause and reflection, whether it’s to enjoy the beauty of nature, appreciate the passage of time, or simply be mindful of the present moment. * Suggests that we can find joy and meaning in the simple things in life. Favorite books -------------- * Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art * Mere Christianity * The Monumental Impulse: Architecture’s Biological Roots * Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference * Synectics: the Development of Creative Capacity * Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture * Thinking about Exhibitions * Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary * Dictionary * Thesaurus » **Contact me, I am happy to talk.** -------------------------------------

Updated December 3, 2024

Home ---- What I am doing right now ------------------------- I’ve been living back in the US for the past 9 months! It’s been a _huge_ adjustment being back in the United States after living abroad for almost a decade. I don’t think I’ll stay, but I will be here until next year. These days all, I do is work as I try to get my business making money. What I’m doing right now: Sharing art with the world with–https://randomdailyart.com and https://randomdailyart.ai * Waiting around for Google to not approve the extension I made! https://ufe.email/ * Build AI agents and a tool to kick them off from your inbox https://aichat.email Random ------ I have become a bit obsessed with personal health data. I’m sort of on a personal mission to get my resting heart rate down over time. What I am excited about ----------------------- * Launching new products! _Updated: December, 3rd, 2024 - Clovis, California, USA_

Updated December 2, 2024

Hi I'm Emmy. I'm a Masters student in mathematical biology at the University of Melbourne. I did my undergraduate degree as a double major in developmental biology and pure mathematics and minored in history and philosophy of science (HPS). I like exploring the regularities that explain how life as we know it works. Naturally, that makes me interested in evolutionary theory, mathematics and philosophy of biology. Recently I've been thinking about biological agency, perspectivism and developing mathematical formalisms for both of those frameworks. A good place to start with the math has to be Robert Rosen's seminal work _Life Itself_ expressed in the language of category theory. I really enjoy living in a cosmopolitan and inter-disciplinary world so wouldn't box myself into any one field. But maybe we could call it philosophical biology (a mostly forgotten branch of theoretical biology) or organicism. I'm still unsure if I really want to go into academia because, well, it doesn't seem like such a good place to do theoretical research in the 21st century (also this). Plus, I really love teaching and sharing these ideas with a wider audience. They don't get a lot of coverage in typical popular science. So while I'm still young (and perhaps naïve), I may as well try to figure out YouTube and if it doesn't work out, then the academy isn't going anywhere. My email is emmy 'at' subanima 'dot' org.

Updated December 1, 2024

photo by Oliver Potratz Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Haage started playing music on violin from age 5, but switched to guitar about eight years later. As a highschool exchange student in Portland, Oregon he started playing jazz regularly and continued to do so back home. He started his college education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, but soon transfered to Berlin to succesfully finish his studies. Over the years his travels playing and studying music took him to places like the Center of the Arts in Banff, Canada, and New York City where he had the chance to play and deepen his studies with Bill Frisell, Brad Shepik, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi and many others. In Berlin he has been a very active member of the vital young jazz and improvised music scene since moving there in 2002, playing with many different musicians like Ben Kraef, Tobias Backhaus, Phil Donkin, Heinrich Koebberling, Philipp Gropper, Richard Koch, Oli Steidle, Simon Bauer, Brendan Dougherty, and many more. Besides the many loose collaborations and gigs as sideman he has been leading his own groups such as Johannes Haage´s P.O.5, the Slowtrio, and the Johannes Haage Trio (with Andreas Lang on bass and Sebastian Merk on drums), which released an Album in 2010 featuring their original cover versions of songs that Marlene Dietrich was known for. Currently his main band is the Trio DRIFT with Drummer Joe Smith and Matthias Pichler on Bass - to date they have four LP albums out on shoebill music, an independent Vinyl /digital record label directed by Haage. Their latest Album “Cycles” came out in December 2024.

Updated December 1, 2024

Bugasnoo: rock your baby to sleep with Lego ------------------------------------------- I have recently become a dad, which is sometimes amazing, and sometimes suffering, such as when the baby is in a fussy mood and refusing to sleep. Some friends were very enthusiastic about a $1.5k smart crib that makes white noise and rocks your baby to sleep. You know what also makes noise, rocks your baby to sleep, and doesn’t cost $1.5k? That’s right, this Lego model. This is already by far my most useful Lego creation, and we’re using it regularly to great effect. At the core of this creation are two bogies, driven by Lego motors, strapped to the wheel of a stroller with rubber bands. Each bogie is driven by two motors for a total of 4 driven wheels and 4 motors for maximum traction and power. You could honestly get away with two motors and maybe gear them down 12:20. This design has excess torque and velocity and is limited by traction. The traction is provided by the rubber bands, and kept straight with coaster wheels. This particular design uses parts from the Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit, which has been discontinued. It should however be possible to construct a similar model from Powered Up motors using the Technic Hub. ps: bugasnoo is obviously from buggy and snooze and not from any similar sounding trademarks ;) pps: I have considered turning this into a product but I’d need a cofounder who’s more into Industrial Design Engineering and business. Claude by the token in Open WebUI --------------------------------- Last month I subscribed to Claude Pro, but was dismayed to learn it doesn’t give you API access to use it in VS Code or Home Assistant or whatever. So I didn’t renew my subscription and instead bought API access, thinking I’d just use some chat app. Turns out it’s not that easy to find a good chat app where you can just plug in your API token. The solution I settled on is to use LiteLLM with Open WebUI. Open WebUI is a great chat interface that is primarily used with Ollama, but it also supports OpenAI compatible APIs. LiteLLM is a proxy that translates a ton of LLMs to a unified OpenAPI compatible API. Badabing badaboom, give LiteLLM your Anthropic key, plug it into Open WebUI and bob’s your uncle. It’s actually great if you are a very heavy or very casual user because you pay by the token. That means if you use it only a little, it’s cheaper than Claude Pro, and if you use it a lot, you aren’t limited to a certain amount of messages. Surprisingly it also does better RAG than Claude, letting you do web searches and include more and bigger documents than would fit in the context window. Here is my Docker compose file to set it all up. It is modified from ollama-intel-gpu to include LiteLLM with an Anthropic config.yaml. But if you’re on team green or red, you can just change the first image to use `ollama/ollama` I suppose. services: ollama-intel-gpu: build: context: . dockerfile: Dockerfile container_name: ollama-intel-gpu image: ollama-intel-gpu:latest restart: always devices: - /dev/dri:/dev/dri volumes: - ollama-intel-gpu:/root/.ollama ports: - "11434:11434" ollama-webui: image: ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:latest container_name: ollama-webui volumes: - ollama-webui:/app/backend/data depends_on: - ollama-intel-gpu - litellm ports: - ${OLLAMA_WEBUI_PORT-3000}:8080 environment: - OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://ollama-intel-gpu:11434 - OPENAI_API_BASE_URL=http://litellm:4000 extra_hosts: - host.docker.internal:host-gateway restart: always litellm: image: ghcr.io/berriai/litellm:main-latest container_name: litellm volumes: - ./litellm_config.yaml:/app/config.yaml ports: - 4000:4000 environment: - ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=YOURKEYHERE restart: always command: --config /app/config.yaml volumes: ollama-webui: {} ollama-intel-gpu: {} JPEG compress your LLM weights ------------------------------ So quantization is kinda bad lossy compression right? JPEG is good lossy compression. This may sound stupid, and maybe it is, but hear me out. I’ve read that LLM performance is usually constrained by memory bandwidth, and for us plebs also by memory size, and there is a precedent in for example ZFS compression which has shown to _increase_ disk performance because you’re IO constrained rather than compute constrained. So it might be beneficial to decompress LLM parameters on the fly, and if you’re doing that you might want to use a good lossy compression algorithm instead of blunt quantization. It is said that compression is equivalent to general intelligence, so in that sense lossy compression would be expected to reduce intelligence, so you’d want to get a good compression ratio with minimal loss. The way JPEG works is basically * break down the pixels in chunks - after decompression chunk boundaries are visible as JPEG artifacts. * Discrete Cosine Transform them - lossless transformation in the family of Fourier transforms * quantize them - data loss happens here, creating longer runs * Run Length Encode them - compression happens here RLE is a lossless compression technique, which gets turbocharged by discarding some data to create longer runs. In the case of image data, the DCT concentrates most information in the low frequencies so you can quantize high frequencies with minor loss in image quality. Now, I don’t expect LLM parameters to be “smooth” like image data, so naive JPEG compression of LLM weights is not likely to be effective. BUT! You can reorder the columns and rows of a matrix without affecting the result. It’s like \\(a+b+c=d \\rightarrow c+b+a=d\\). So you could reorder your rows and columns to maximize clustering of similar values. Not sure how you’d do this, maybe just sort by vector sum, or some genetic algorithm, or other cleverness. So my proposed LLM compression would work like this * reorder the matrices to improve value clustering * break down the values in chunks * DCT them * quantize them * RLE them And then inference would * RLE expand a chunk * inverse DCT it * perform the multiplications So the compressed data would exist in VRAM and be decompressed on the fly chunk by chunk to perform a matrix vector product. It’d take more compute, 11 multiplications to be precise, but if you’re memory constrained it could be worth it. I guess the real question is if you can obtain any useful clustering in LLM data. In a sense the parameters are already compressed(=intelligence), but there is no information in their order, so reordering and transforming parameters could improve RLE compression without incurring extra quantization loss.

Updated December 1, 2024

This is a Now page | **Updated:** December 2024, Smithfield, NC ### Full House Mrs. H's cousin and family living in Goldsboro experienced a family tragedy, the upshot of which is we have a full house, now! We've added our uncle, cousin, her son, and 5 month old baby to the permanent mix, and host another relative on weekends. It was quite the adjustment at first, especially in terms of space. We reorganized the rooms around, made the garage a hang-out area and put the drums there, moved our "offices" to the main bedroom, and got things set-up in the other two bedrooms for everyone. It's a little hectic at times, but we've settled into a routine and having the family around is really nice. We try to have meals around our giant table several times a week and that's been lovely. We've gotten the 8 year old into the local school and involved in a couple of different activities. ### Playing Drums, Still! I'm working on original music in two bands at the moment, practicing with them couple times a week and every day at home. Sadly, the bass player for Power Child, the band I had been focusing on for the past 2 years, retired with his wife to Spain, and the band has been what I would consider defunct at this point, although there's been no official break-up. It's a bummer because that was one of my favorite bands I've been in. Maybe it will come around again, or I'll get to play with members of that band again in another context. Copyright © Phillip Harrington. All rights reserved. Made with in Smithfield, NC This website doesn't set any damn cookies

Updated November 30, 2024

_Last Update: November 30, 2024_ I’m Aman Mittal, a documentarian and developer. I love to explore and write about different technologies. My journey in the tech world started as a consultant and a Developer Advocate and has evolved through various roles in content development and technical writing. Work history ------------ I’ve worn many hats over the years: * 🚀 Software consultant and documentation lead at Expo (2022 — Present) * 📝 Senior Content Developer at Vercel (2022) * 🥑 Developer Advocate at Draftbit (2021 — 2022) * 💻 📝 Software consultant and Tech Writer for Crowdbotics (2018 — 2021) * Logrocket (Tech Writer, 2020 — 2023) * Heartbeat (a.k.a FritzAI) (React Native Technical Writer, 2019 — 2020) * Jscrambler (React Native Technical Writer, 2018 — 2022) Open source and me ------------------ In 2018, I made my first open-source contribution by writing a Twitter Bot for freeCodeCamp’s #100DaysOfCode campaign, which now has over 200k followers. Over the years I’ve made some contributions to some projects and organizations such as Node.js, Gatsbyjs and freeCodeCamp both as a contributor. and I was recognized among the Top 200 Open Source Contributors by freeCodeCamp.org in 2018. Technical writing ----------------- My journey in technical writing started on Medium in 2017. Since then, I’ve: * Become an AWS Amplify Community contributor in 2019. * Reached over 2 million views on Medium by July 2020. * Been recognized as a Distinguished Author and moderator by Dev.to in December 2020. * Had my work featured as an official resource by Google’s Dev Library in 2021. * Written over 100 articles and tutorials for more than 30 organizations and tech publications by 2022. You can find my work in publications like LogRocket, Jscrambler, freeCodeCamp, Expo.io, Sentry, AppSignal, FlyCode, Crowdbotics, Educative Edpresso, Heartbeat.fritz.ai, Draftbit, Dzone, Open Replay, HarperDB, Hackernoon, Alligator.io/Digital Ocean, Newline.co, Geek Culture, JavaScript Plain English. Other notable publications and organizations: Rising Stack, Codeburst.io, ZeoLearn.com, Art + Marketing, 42hire.com, ITNext, Eduonix, The Startup, JavaBeginnersTutorial.com, LevelUp Gitconnected, Better Programming, React Native Training, Pusher, Instamobile, Soshace, and Transifex Native. Some of my blog articles and tutorials have featured in esteemed Newsletters: Node Weekly, React Status, Mobile Dev Weekly, Daily.dev Weekly Picks, Mobile Developers Café, and React Native Newsletter. Speaking engagements -------------------- I’ve shared my knowledge at various events: * **2023:** Workshop on developing and deploying React Native apps with Expo and EAS at App.js 2023. * **2021:** Talks on Build Low-Code Apps using Hasura & Draftbit, Building Attractive UIs with Draftbit at Explore Hacks, Getting Started with Drafitbit- Aman Mittal at Hack The Mountains 2.O, The Rise of No-Code and a Guide to Using Draftbit. * **2020:** Session on writing consistently at Hashnode’s Technical Writing Bootcamp. * **2018:** Podcast on setting up and getting used to Gatsby with Charles Max Wood, Cory House, Tara Manicsic, and Kent C. Dodds. Awards and recognition ---------------------- I was awarded as the Most Authentic Developer Advocate of the Year 2022 at #Noonies2022 by Hackernoon.

Updated November 30, 2024

I’m Simone, a gen X with a straight to the point attitude. Based in the UK, I play bass and design sound under the moniker _Minutes to Midnight_. It's a reference to the _Doomsday Clock_, a connection with the world I grew up in during the Cold War. In previous lives I worked as a game audio designer and a web developer. Today my day job is with the University of Cambridge. To dig deeper, I wrote a personal manifesto.

Updated November 29, 2024

Ga naar inhoud What am I currently working on?Martijn Verheij2024-11-29T15:58:54+01:00 On this page I will keep a list of things I am currently working on. The idea of this page is inspired by an inspiration from Derek Sievers from nownownow.com ### Professional * Working on a new IT advice process for a customer for a couple hours in the week * Working on a book about the first usage of Microsoft Outlook (more wil come) ### Hobbies * During the weekend I like to fire up the BBQ to prepare tasty meat and fish dishes * Wachting Formula 1 (now season stop till the end of February 😟) ### And Personal * Building my own business * The most ideal man and (bonus) father for my partner Suzanne, our daughter Froukje (9) and the bonus daughter Lieke (15) * Helping my wife with her own webshop (www.dehuiswinkel.nl) * Working on sharing productivity and digital knowledge * Reading books ### Volunteer * Co-organizer and presenter of ExpertsLive Radio * Upcoming presentor on a Dutch commercial radiostation Hot Dance Radio Together with my partner we are addicted to series, and also regularly watch a movie via Apple TV. When I am on my way to clients and / or office I listen to one of the podcasts below: * Digitale fitheid (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Come Get IT Podcast (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Ik weet je wachtwoord (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Vurige verhalen (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * F1 aan tafel (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Racing News 365 Formule 1 (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * The working with: Podcast (English) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify At the moment I am reading: Ik (k)en mijn ikken by Karin Brugman, Judith Budde & Berry Collewijn Updated November – 2024 Page load link Ga naar de bovenkant

Updated November 28, 2024

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Updated November 28, 2024

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Updated November 28, 2024

My name is Nima Badizadegan, a software and hardware developer in the Northeastern United States. I am passionate about building computer systems to solve problems, and I like to examine the underlying assumptions of computer systems, from hardware to numerics, to build systems with durable advantages in their field. I am a Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic. A combined interest in computer systems, numerics, and other foundations of computing has brought me to the most exciting supercomputing project of the 2020's: AI training. All views on this site are my own, and they do not represent Anthropic in any way. I like to write, and recently wrote a book on floating point. I wanted to help software writers who rely on floating point understand how floating-point numbers work so you can chase down your weird bugs and take advantage of the properties of the number system fully. ### Interests and Blog Topics This blog should generally focus on technical topics, based on my interests. Topics you should expect to see represented include: * System-level software engineering * FPGAs and design of hardware-accelerated systems * Computer system performance * Micro-optimization of algorithms * Data structure and algorithm internals, and hardware implementation of algorithms * Time synchronization * Numerical algorithms and computer math * High-performance computing technologies * Fundamental physical limits of computer systems I am also fond of several less-technical topics including the following: * The culture of hardware and software engineering * Organizational psychology and corporate structure * The goings on of the financial markets * Goings on in intellectual property and IP law (not a lawyer) ### How to Get in Touch The best way to get in touch with me is through email, but you can use any of the social links on the right. If you are reaching out about employment, I am not interested at this time. Otherwise, feel free to shoot me an email about anything you find interesting at \[email protected\]. If you would like to receive an email when a new post goes live on this blog, you can sign up for my email list using the email link in the top right.