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Wired up Twilio & Anthropic API on a Cloudflare Worker so I can chat with Claude via Garmin InReach during a 3-week backcountry trip to Alaska's North Slope. Location metadata is i…

Oh, you’re right, I do have the DM16L!

Treated myself to a SwissMicros DM16C [1] while waiting for HP to re-relase the original. [1] https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm16c

… and a M1 MacBook will source 5V/3A all day long to a non-PD negotiated sink. Somewhere between the M1 and M3 Apple decided to buy into USB-IF compliance and limit to 500mA. Has l…

IAM, Cloudfront, Route53, ACM, Billing...

Yesterday's discussion around Kagi[0] prompted me to poke through some settings there, as it had been a while. They've also added a "Exclude AI generated images" which they describ…

Can't mention Fibonacci and memoization in the same sentence without me breaking out my favorite Python party trick: def fib(n, cache = {0: 0, 1: 1}): if n not in cache: cache[n] =…

Very relaxing. Until impossibly small $15 Incabloc springs start flying around the room. I'm convinced these sublimate into a vapor the moment they fly out of view of your loupe.

During a recent move, I found my WikiReader [0] from 2009 at the back of a drawer. Tossed some new AAA batteries in it and it fired right up. It contains a fairly complete offline …

I have a shell function I use all the time to keep track of both calendar and timezones where our teams are located now() { cal -3 echo echo -n "Local: " date --rfc-3339=s echo -n …

Anyone seeing name resolution issues in AWS? Some internal monitors started failing about an hour ago with name resolution issues. Quad9 is returning SERVFAIL for status.aws.amazon…

I have an older iPad mini for this purpose (but an old iPhone without a data plan would work too). I setup a separate home@ iCloud account under my family plan and use it exclusive…

Kenji Lopez-Alt, of Seriouseats and “The Food Lab” fame, is coming out with his new book, “The Wok”, here is his travel rig: https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxbNwdvOTR/ . I’ve had a s…

I’ve divulged my camera & network setup. Sure, you could use that info to sneak up to my house, turn the gas off to my generator, cut the power, wait 3h for the batteries in my UPS…

I’ve been very happy with Ubiquiti’s Unifi Protect doorbell. It does mean having to buy into their whole ecosystem, but I was already most of the way there when I added the doorbel…

Looks like the author is running BSPWM, their configuration (in their dotfiles repo) is available here: https://github.com/siduck76/dotfiles/blob/master/thinkpad/bs...

Depending on the make, this could be something you could disable via app/ODB dongle. I use the Carista app/BT dongle and have used it to disable the panic button on my last two Toy…

Looks like the embargo just lifted today. reMarkable just sent out an email with links to reviews: https://mailchi.mp/remarkable.com/first-remarkable-2-reviews...

Couldn't agree more. My primary monitor is a 43" 4k LG at unscaled, native resolution. I can fit five 94 column wide terminals tiled across, each showing 140 lines of text. Is the …

Canon has their DO (Diffractive Optics) technology[1] which I think only ever made it into a 70-300[2]. Mirror lenses have been around for a long time. They fold the length of larg…

As mentioned, you'll need to ensure your /etc/fahclient/client.xml includes: If you check your logs in /var/lib/fahclient/logs, you'll probably see something like: CUDA Device 0: P…

The website lists a restaurant (Southern Proper in Boston) that shut its doors months ago. The space already has a new tenant, has been renovated and has new signs up. Edit: It app…

I was disappointed as well. But I get it. After three years, Pixel users still have to refer to a guide [0] or track down a Google Engineer's Amazon reviews [1] to find a 3rd party…

Tracking/jamming equipment is available [1] (and pretty cool). [1] https://www.aaronia.com/products/solutions/Aaronia-Drone-Det...

They're doing this so you (or other shared tenants) can't read your VMs or the host's memory (and vice versa).