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Coding with ChatGPT

As I’ve written about before, LLMs are an amazing tool for programming. In addition to IDE plugins / autocomplete integrations (Github CoPilot, Qodo) I’m finding utility in a pattern of ‘running conversation in ChatGPT in dedicated app.’ I can ask anything there, snippets and one-offs and what-ifs. The full -o1 model is really good. Anyway, …

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Smokeping and Caddy 2: hard but worthwhile

Spent a few semi-pleasant hours today to get this working: That’s Smokeping, proxied by Caddy2 on my love-it-to-bits Raspberry Pi4 web server. Smokeping lets you track not just the yes-we-are-connected / no-we-are-not, but latency and packet loss and jitter. My network and ISP are generally solid, but this is an easy tool to have around. …

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Reddit on iOS minus ads

So a while ago, Reddit enshittified after taking PE money. Turned off the APIs, blocked third-party apps, etc. And the official app is a really shitty ad-laden experience. So. Do you have The details would take ages to type out, thus numbers 2 and 6. Drop a comment if this is useful and I’ll write …

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Beware of censored LLMs

I’m a huge, huge fan of all things Simon Willison, but this latest post prompted me to write. Models trained by Alibaba, ByteDance and other Chinese companies have to adhere to Chinese censorship, and the companies have found a so-far secret solution to removing information from them. Qwen, for example, and the new DeepSeek-R1. Simply …

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Wildfire intensity scale

Years ago, during the 2016 Fort McMurry wildfire, I read an article that I should have bookmarked that discussed wildfire in physics terms – watts per square meter. Above some threshold, you literally and actually cannot douse the flames. Today, with the LA fires raging, I went searching and found this PDF by Joe H …

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Comment on More Scurfa awesomeness by Paul Hubbard

In reply to <a href="https://ultracrepidarian.phfactor.net/2021/08/14/more-scurfa-awesomeness/comment-page-1/#comment-8922">Karl</a>. I liked the Treasure Seeker automatic in white. Since sold, along with all the others, but I will probably buy another Scurfa at some point.

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<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I have both a Scurfa D1 Ti, and an SNE573. Love them both, especially the Scurfa. I’ve owned a lot of mid-priced divers, and the Scurfa is more comfortable than almost all of them. The titanium watch is NOT heavy, or cumbersome at all. <br>I rotate my several watches, and the Scurfa is the one I feel the least. <br>Bezel is phenomenal. Great alignment. <br>personally, I enjoy the dome. <br>+2or3/month. <br>Highly recommend it. <br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Which did you prefer? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

New theme and a bit of housekeeping

After reading some posts on Steve Grunwell’s blog, I was admiring his theme and how much I liked it. I have been running the WP22 theme, but his is better. It’s called “Lovecraft” and Steve was kind enough to share the link. So here we have it – what do you think? It’s immediately better …

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Music service playlist migration

It will not come as news to anyone streaming music via Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, etc – the playlist is the proprietary bit. The music is identical but your curated playlists are a barrier to moving. Today, I saw a Spotify playlist in this Cool Tools post:  I’m in love with this “Halloween” playlist …

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Status games

Mother Jones today has an excellent story on Arlie Russell Hochschild’s book “Stolen Pride.” This quote in particular: “We live in both a material economy and a pride economy, and while we pay close attention to shifts in the material economy, we often neglect or underestimate the importance of the pride economy. Just as the …

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LLMs can solve hard problems

We’re a couple of years into the LLM era now, and the Gartner hype cycle from last year seems relevant: The purpose of this post is to share two hard problems (in the CS sense of the term) that I and a friend solved with an LLM. The problem and impetus I’m friends with a …

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Umarelling

That’s an actual word. Construction on the pipeline by UCHS. Morning bike ride. Not only is umarelling a thing, it was a contest. With winners. And honorable mentions with decent poetry. And a logo: No, I didn’t enter, but I adore the idea.

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Comment on Controlling the Logitech Litra on MacOS by Paul Hubbard

In reply to <a href="https://ultracrepidarian.phfactor.net/2022/03/09/controlling-the-logitech-litra-on-macos/comment-page-1/#comment-8906">jeshii</a>. Awesome. Glad I could help.

Comment on Controlling the Logitech Litra on MacOS by jeshii

So amazing. Worked like a charm. Ended up making my own ~/.lightfunc and sourcing that from my zprofile, but otherwise, followed the instructions and it worked great. You are a lifesaver. Now to see if I can get it to run automatically when I open zoom.

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Comment on Controlling the Logitech Litra on MacOS by Colin Lord

Paul, thank you so much for this! I was looking for a way to control my Litra through a Stream Deck, and this got me almost all the way there! I used what you provided here to create two shortcuts in the Mac shortcuts app. And from there, set up Stream Deck to run each shortcut. Now I can turn on/off my light with just a simple button press on the Stream Deck. Appreciate you!