Everything I own, owned

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me

How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.

Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel

I’ve had a Synology NAS for a very long time, and recently I started moving its ...

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

Fable and the end of the free lunch

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.

What Is a Harness?

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo

Kinshasa—One hundred days have passed since the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the ongoing Ebola outbreak, which has now become the country's fastest growing. Transmission is outpacing control efforts, requiring a substantial scale-up across all areas of response to halt the spread of the virus.

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.,How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease

The blood-based biomarker test is based on technology developed at WashU Medicine by Randall Bateman, MD, and David Holtzman, MD.

AI Chip Architectures

A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.

New EU-wide product repair rules come into force

New EU rules have come into force aiming to tackle the 35 million tonnes of waste the premature disposal of consumer goods generates across the bloc.,New EU rules have come into force aiming to tackle the 35 million tonnes of waste the premature disposal of consumer goods generates across the bloc.

Executable Is a SQLite Database

I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas are well suited to each other.

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It’s delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units.

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law. 

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to.

OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM

Chrome extension: pin a screen region once, then hotkey your way through a paginated document. OCR runs 100% offline via bundled Tesseract. - thiagotigaz/ocr-it