Dense grid of audio waveform thumbnails in phosphor blue with a blinking terminal cursor

2026-08-26

Making a MacBook Pro sound like a MacBook Pro on Omarchy

coding audio recording experiment

The speakers were fine. Apple runs an EQ curve and Linux does not. Measuring it, fixing a PipeWire realtime bug along the way, and a skill so an agent can do it for you.

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Close-up of the Nvidia GB10 board, the same box now running DeepSeek V4 Flash

2026-08-10

A bigger model on the same box

coding experiment

The third post about the GB10 box. A model five times the size, a third of the speed, and a 3090 sitting idle because of it.

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Digital Porch wordmark on a dark grain-textured field, standing in for an article with no photograph

2026-08-10

Prompt Injection: A Live Canary on This Site

writing experiment

A disclosed prompt-injection canary running in the open: what it is, how it works, and why the payload only ever emails the site owner's own honeypot.

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Ink illustration of five systemd unit blocks fed by one shared template, with two signal traces fading out

2026-08-09

Agents that stay up when the laptop does not

coding experiment

The built-in agents ran on my laptop, so they stopped when it did. Moving them to an always-on box let me run Claude, Pi and Hermes side by side.

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Close-up of the Nvidia GB10 board, the same box revisited for the NVFP4 upgrade

2026-08-02

The Same Box, Twice as Fast

coding experiment

A follow-up to the DGX Spark writeup: swapping FP8 for NVFP4 nearly doubled single-stream throughput on the same GB10 box, with room to spare for concurrency.

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1985 VW Quantum shot on the Sony a6700

2026-07-16

Shopping for a Camera: Sony a6700 vs Fujifilm X-E5

writing video

Instead of agonizing over spec sheets I ordered both the Sony a6700 and the Fujifilm X-E5 and shot them side by side for a while.

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DGX Spark workstation running a vLLM inference stack reproduced by an AI agent from a markdown file

2026-06-28

I Gave My Brother a Markdown File and an Agent Did the Rest

coding experiment

How a single markdown file plus an AI agent reproduced a full vLLM inference stack on a DGX Spark.

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Two completed AML EZ1073 mic preamp units on the studio workbench, warm light catching the front panels

2026-05-01

AML EZ1073 — Stereo Mic/Line Preamp Pair

electronics audio recording

Two genuine Neve 1073 reproductions built from the Audio Maintenance Limited EZ1073 kit — Carnhill transformers and inductors, Grayhill switches. Wired as a stereo pair (or dual mono) with toggleable EQ, also bound for the stereo bus of my summing mixer.

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