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Predictions on near-term AI inference spending

kube_ps1 is love, kube_ps1 is life

A fun puzzle game

People in tech business circles love this quote by Henry Ford: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. The idea is to think outside the box and create entirely new markets instead of just new products in existing ones. Like Apple creatin...

The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.

Yesterday we finally merged vector sets into Redis, here you can find the README that explains in detail what you get: https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/modules/vector-sets/README.md The goal of the new data structure is, in short, to create a new “Set alike” dat...

Richard White, the historian and author of The Republic for Which It Stands, explains what made the late 19th century gilded.

Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity, and surfing. At one point (~24:30) Johnson talks about his love for surfing and the beautiful flow state it puts him in: Sometimes I’ll see a friend riding a wave while I’m ...

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

Half Life and Half Life 2 are my favorite games. I've played them through multiple times. I played Half Life 1 for the first time in 1999 or 2000, can't remember. My computer at the time could barely run it. Nowadays, it's a struggle to play older PC games on a Mac. There ar...

Running the LAMP Stack in a Lamp Rack

I typically don't do anything for April Fool's Day, but this year I thought I'd unite a bit of a meme in the homelab community with something I wanted to make a video on anyway: a lamp rack.

What's a lamp rack? Well, you're looking at one! It's a floor lamp with an integrated mini rack!

I didn't want to make a video about a floor lamp, but more on the fact you don't need fancy racks or any new hardware at all to start a homelab.

Jeff Geerling April 1, 2025

You’ve been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner…

🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀

Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn.

Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of software underneath: microcode. With microcode, instead of building the processor's control circuitry from complex logic gates, the con...

Eleanor arranged her storybooks on the small wooden table, her arthritic fingers tracing the worn covers she’d carried to the local library every Wednesday for twenty-three years. The familiar room felt much colder today.

“We’re starting with ‘The Cloud Sailor’ since it’s Amy’s birthday,” she announced to the gathered children. Some weren’t listening, which was normal, but many were also staring at the gleaming white booth being installed in her corner.

Especially if you want a UX as good as Docker images give you.

Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns ...

I made a little puzzle game called Knight Ride. You can play it here: knightride.rakhim.org. A few months ago, I started learning game development with Godot and began building a chess-inspired game. Game development is new and unintuitive to me, so for some quick 'build-...

On some brilliant, idiosyncratic, and often ill-fated gambits to transform computer input. (New version of an essay originally posted in March 2023. 3,400 words.)

new and exciting ways to write buggy code

Towards the end of last year, I got the delightful opportunity to talk to Scott Carey for the Priority Zero podcast from LeadDev. LeadDev is such a wonderfully thoughtful community for people who think about how people create with code, and who manage teams who create technology at scale.

It's a wide-ranging conversation, and Scott was incredibly kind to indulge us covering so many topics, but I was particularly grateful to get to have the discussion at about 49:10 of the ways so many leaders in industry are trying to shirk responsibility, and I tried to articulate how those efforts ignore the awful, often immoral level of power that's vested in the hands of business leaders. We unfortunately can see exactly how that's being abused very plainly in every aspect of our society today.