Around a year ago I got an M1 MacBook Air for work. At this point, a lot of people that I know use these Apple Silicon machines. While my personal machine is running FreeBSD, many times I’ve been in a … Read more
It’s rare, but sometimes it still happens that I forget to open a tmux or screen session when working with something that is supposed to be quickly done. However, it also happens that “quickly done” turns into “tedious and ugly” … Read more
The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. PyPI helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Learn about installing packages. Package authors use PyPI to distribute their … Read more
It came out of nowhere I’ve been watching the rapid evolution of art generated by machine learning, and the pace at which it’s moving is mind-blowing. It happened so fast that it almost feels like it sprung up out of … Read more
Insights on running a Home Area Network (HAN) nearly completely on open source software, including configurations and metrics. Over the past year or so I began to replace everything around me with more privacy-respecting, open source software. Not only have … Read more
The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer that runs a Linux-based operating system called SteamOS. The machine comes with SteamOS 3 (code name “holo”), which is in turn based on Arch Linux. Although there is no SteamOS 3 installer … Read more
I don’t really have much experience with microcontrollers. I’ve played around with some arduinos before and the main entry point for my home network is a Raspberry Pi, but that’s about it for recent experience. I did take a single … Read more
Today, PyTorch officially introduced GPU support for Apple’s ARM M1 chips. This is an exciting day for Mac users out there, so I spent a few minutes tonight trying it out in practice. In this short blog post, I will … Read more
8 minute read Updated: March 24, 2022 Adam Gordon Bell Most of the code I’ve had running on AWS’s cloud has been in docker containers, running in Kubernetes clusters. And from my perspective, AWS was invisible. … Read more
End-to-end tests and CI When you make changes to code in a repository, you usually want to make sure that you haven’t broken core user flows like the sign up button. To automatically check nothing is broken, people usually start … Read more