Bringing AI to the LoRa Mesh: Building a Smarter MeshCore Bot with Ollama
I’ve been experimenting with LoRa mesh networks, AI agents, and running local LLMs with Ollama. At some point, it occurred to me: why not bring them together? Both Meshtastic and MeshCore…
Dynamics N5 Resources
Resources for the N5 Dynamics Topic. Let’s start with a couple of videos to get you ready. I can’t condone where the guy places his hands in the first video but it is a good song.…
Tu 20 October 2026
A few weeks ago I linked to Rich Hickeys Gist-Post about open source. Yesterday, Konstantin pointed me to the CultRepo-Youtube-channel and their playlist Documentaries for Developers. Concidentally,…
Mark 13:32: Can We Choose What God Already Knows?
Jesus knew who would betray him and who would deny him, yet said he did not know the day or the hour. What that tells us about free will. Giotto di Bondone, Kiss of Judas, fresco, Scrovegni Chapel,…
XSS in yarr
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Response to Paolo Pedercini's stance on AI usage
I'm stepping into Da Discourse again
Record: Omul Cu Șobolani - Distopia (Povești De Adormit Părinții)
2026 • LP, Red, Gatefold • Cassette • CD To see all 8 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at:…
Goodbye, Lara ★★★★☆
In the opening scene, when Lara is being born, her sisters already know that she’s going to be a princess, but argue about if she will be a blue or red, as if mermaid gender is colour-based, and her…
Experts: Before You Can Increase Revenue or Impact, Stop Making This Mistake
A few years ago, I was having coffee at a conference with a friend and fellow speaker, when someone approached with a question."Jay!" she said. (A fine opening, I thought. For that, dear reader, is…
On top of the world, III
Washington, September 2026. From the video I finally found the image I was looking for in the mountains of Washington.
Post-It Dungeon for October TWO !!!
WE'RE DOIN' IT AGAIN!!! This dungeon can be either standalone (in which case there is an area for a potential entrance marked with a large E on the map above) or it can serve as a lower dungeon level…
From the Human Gut Archaeome to Marine Salterns: A 0.21 Å Dark Proteome Structural Lock Across Halophilic Families
How pg_bio's autonomous Swarm expanded to 139,601 edges and uncovered a 0.207 Å RMSD (0.982 TM-score) DUF7538 structural ortholog shared between human gut archaeon Haloferax massiliensis and marine…
Chase delight
Writing challenge: Week 11
The Real Lesson from a Flying Tesla: Derivative Doesn’t Mean Unoriginal
Tesla shows off a Roadster that can lift itself into the air, and somewhere an aspiring entrepreneur thinks “I need to invent something even more spectacular to be successful”. I admire the ambition…
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Sandboxing Ai Agents On Linux
Sandboxing untrusted AI agents on Linux
6FPS V8#1: My Year Without Chocolate
The January issue of my monthly newsletter is out!
6FPS V8#2: Not a Diet
The February issue of my monthly newsletter is out
Why aren’t we talking about growing the economy?
The UK’s political conversation is almost entirely focused on how to find money and how to spend it. We debate taxes, borrowing and public service budgets while neglecting the economy that generates…
The Second Explosion: Why Multi-Agent AI Defies Traditional Engineering
I have worked in software engineering for more than thirty years and witnessed several combinatorial explosions firsthand. The AI-driven explosion now under way is different, and that distinction…
Cocktails in Jaipur: The Good, the Bad and the Overpriced
Updated: 20 October 2026 From inventive Indian flavours to questionable service, a few years of Friday nights in Jaipur’s cocktail bars. My cocktail arrived in a delicate floral china cup. The…
Just a Lot of Multiplication: What's Actually Inside an LLM
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C.
Boredom
[YouTube embed] Kya writes: “Parents think this is boredom. Parents think infants need all the toys and colorful stimulation. They don’t. ” * This video was not created by me. It...
INtegrated New Mathematical Breakthroughs From Nuclear Force to Universe
When I worked at NSF (198-2015), my PhD in applied mathematics, in the school of Von Neumann, let me probe the front lines of more disciplines than anyone else there. But the NEW tools, from LLMs to…
DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Engine Behind Its Models
DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework it uses to serve its own models, under Apache 2.0. What it does, what it leaves out, and why it matters more than it looks.
GLM on an A100, in Vx
The decoder of GLM-5, a mixture-of-experts model of about 750 billion parameters with sparse attention and 256 experts per layer, runs on an NVIDIA A100 through 28 GPU kernels written in Vx and…
Optimizing for the common case, in language design
Hardware designers make the common case fast. A language can make the common case need no extra words. The most common parallel loop starts one task per index. Go, C# and JavaScript first made that…
Traveling for the First Time at 27
I know this might sound silly to some people, but in my 27 years of living in this world, I had never been on an airplane until this year (2026). And now, I've flown twice in the same year! I'm truly…
stagehand
Samson Dauda, 2026Just to start off with a concrete example, there was a disembodied stagehand’s hand backstage that reached up and helped the center stage doors close almost every time a…
(18+) I played Saya no Uta for the first time
MASSIVE Content Warning. This is an adult visual novel with gruesome imagery, and mature and unsettling themes, including sexual violence and suicide. (Also, this review does not contain any major…
Overtime: When the Plan Runs Out, Credits Take Over
My harness stopped Claude Code and Codex at 95% of their plan windows, even when usage credits could have paid for more. Now it checks for usable credits first, keeps working until they run low, and…
Mitigating CVE-2026-111943 in OkHttp
I just learned that some private keys leaked for a widely-trusted certificate authority. This is bad: it makes it possible for attackers to impersonate HTTPS services.If you’re shipping a mobile app…
Second Violin Advisory
I'm trying something new:Second Violin Advisory | Engineering leadership coaching and advisoryCoaching and advisory for engineering leaders: executive coaching, engineering organization reviews…
Woke Berkeley Bakery Nabolom Can’t Stick to One Closure Story
Anti-Israel Berkeley bakery Nabolom closes after 50 years, with its owners blaming political backlash among a host of other problems. Continue reading Woke Berkeley Bakery Nabolom Can’t Stick to One…
Home offices
A non-exhaustive list of home offices (hopefully still) available on the internet: Stefan Didak: https://www.stefandidak.com/wp/ and https://www.stefandidak.com/office/ Mitch's Crazy Office:…
RAG and Microsoft Agent Framework Step By Step (2)
In a previous blog post I walked through a RAG example using Microsoft Agent Framework so that we could do a semantic search against our documents. However, Bruno Capuano (Microsoft) and I went over…
Voting is the Way
Yesterday I was able to vote early at my local town hall. I had to go there to pay my property tax. The process could not have been easier or...
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Divya Srishti
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the administrative body for Tirumala Temple , commissioned Darshan International of Bangalore to create incense sticks using recycled temple flowers as part of…
Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026)
Today's links The death of history's most successful publisher: Google has a scorching case of "main character syndrome." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Civil War x 4,400…
Review: Angel Olsen on Mobile Fidelity
Today I’m reviewing Angel Olsen’s 2016 album My Woman, which has been given an impressive 10th-anniversary pressing from Mobile Fidelity. But first...A quick reminder that our October…
Dolphins Are Laughing At Me
In an effort to quell the needs of my tyrannical overlords, who insist that I pay my mortgage and bills every month, I work about four different jobs. One of those jobs is writing tests for the UK…
I Won’t Be Alone In The Voting Booth And Neither Will You. (So Get There.)
Like hundreds of millions of Americans, I am preparing to go to the polls to cast my vote in the most consequential election of my lifetime, perhaps of this nation’s lifetime. And while I will enter…
Dynamite
These days I'm always behind the curve, so it seems. I was recently offered this blue vinyl copy of the Dynamite 'Settle The Score' 7" and thought I was keeping myself up to date... only to realise…
New Documentary Reveals 1966 "Practice" Run for Famous 1967 Bigfoot Film
​A new documentary streaming on Prime Video today for $19.98 claims to have definitive proof that the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax, as skeptics have long maintained. Marq…
Meet Fanny Tunison, the Woman Who Sewed with Her Tongue
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Fanny Tunison of Sag Harbor, New York, (September 1867 – March 1944) made a living sewing, painting, drawing, and embroidering. But unlike other women who may have…
A Mac user’s adventures in Linux land
I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux…
Beatober 2026
Oh hey there. ö/ It's been a while. Long story short: things n stuff. I do have an upcoming blog post titled something along the lines of "Getting on Stage for the Very First Time to a Completely…
Women’s Health Advocates in Chicago: Breast Cancer, Latinas, and the Gaps We Can Close
Two panels at Women's Health Advocates in Chicago shared personal stories of breast cancer, maternal health, and fighting to be heard, plus a reminder to vote with women's health in mind.
Water rights legal defense preparation by AI
I was up against a very short deadline to defend my water rights the last few days. I called around to several water rights attorneys for help, and every single one of them recommended the same guy.…