As a web engine, Servo primarily handles everything around scripting and layout. For embedding use cases, the Tauri community experimented with adding a new Servo backend, but Servo can also be used to build a browser. We have a reference … Read more
Recently, I’ve been wondering if I should migrate from my current web app stack (FastAPI, HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of JavaScript) to a modern web framework. I was particularly interested in FastHTML, Next.js, and Svelte. FastHTML: Many folks have … Read more
July 14, 2024 Thistle Tea is my new World of Warcraft private server project. You can log in, create a character, run around, and cast spells to kill mobs, with everything synchronized between players as expected for an MMO. It … Read more
If you’d like to spend a few hours this weekend to dive into Large Language Models (LLMs) and understand how they work, I’ve prepared a 3-hour coding workshop presentation on implementing, training, and using LLMs. Below, you’ll find a table … Read more
0. Intro In the words of its authors Bubble Tea is a “powerful little TUI framework” for Go. It may be little but I found it had a steep learning curve before I could get truly comfortable with its power. … Read more
The GATT database¶ A GATT client doesn’t know anything about the information stored on a server to which it connects. It must learn about the server’s contents by asking it questions and listening to its answers. In order for this … Read more
How I Trained Neural Networks with Brainwave Data from a Children’s Toy. Introduction: In February of 2024, I began investigating ways in which I could interpret the learnings of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural networks. The objective was to generate training … Read more
If you’ve ever built a web service or a web app, you know the drill: pick a database, pick a web service framework (and in today’s day and age, pick a front-end framework, but let’s not get into that). This … Read more
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, that uses SQLite as its storage engine. Development for 9.0 has started, with the main goal of reducing disk usage by approximately 50%. This goal will be achieved through … Read more
[embedded content] Brick Technology’s new video features increasingly powerful Lego machines designed to topple ever stronger towers. I love their iterative engineering videos (and those from Brick Experiment Channel). As I’ve written about these videos before: They’re not even really … Read more