My interest in native prairies goes back to 2014 when I was graduating high school, but I didn’t start my first proper prairie until 2018, on an acre of exposed clay that even the weeds didn’t really want to grow on. That prairie is now a sea of thick grass, accompanied by other mixed prairies
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Continuous exterior insulation is this idea that we can reduce thermal bridging and make a “perfect wall” assembly in home (and commercial buildings). It’s really taken off in recent years as a understanding of building science has become more widespread that this is the right way to do things. The ‘classic’ (cheap) home wall here
For those of you who don’t know, ANT+ is a wireless networking protocol mostly used by running/cycling/etc sports gear. It was designed by Garmin (actually a company it bought, Dynastream) back when Bluetooth wasn’t nearly as good as it is now. I like ANT+ because it is simple and reliable. It is the kind of
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Introduction When I was about 14, my dad bought himself and I matching titanium bikes. I had been getting into cycling on his 70’s era steel frame with friction shifters, and this titanium bike would now be the first proper bike of my own. It was not my last bike, we’ve gotten dozens of mostly
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Introducing the state-of-the-art SPEED agentic architecture and speed-core, a fully open-source AI architecture designed to do everything: be fast, be smart, be secure, be reliable, and be easy to use on critical systems. Above all, speed-core was designed with one goal in mind: be reliable enough that you would trust it enough to launch a
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I am mostly here to brag a bit. I’m so proud of myself. For what? For making some SVGs. Icons to be exact, for my AutoTS forecasting project to use as launch icons for any associated apps. And to be fair, Claude and Codex did most of the heavy lifting on making the SVG code,
An IMU (internal measurement unit) is an device that measures movement, usually an accelerometer and a gyroscope. This is the thing that lets your phone know when you’ve rotated the device so it knows to rotate the screen, can count steps, and helps your phone autostabilize the focus of its camera. They also help guide
I actually want to live in the beating heart of the city, and not flee into the dull suburbs like so many do. But the city really does have crime issues, and no one wants to raise their kid in a neighborhood where drive by shootings occur. Somewhere between the multimillion dollar homes on the
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After a year and a half, I have finally gotten around to posting about my solar necklaces project. The first version was a lightsaber-inspired necklace. Using solar power to charge a supercapacitor, it also uses the solar panel to sense when it is dark, and turn on and glow. The second version attempted to overcome
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In the last several weeks, I have felt something. Not the ground shifting, it was already doing that, more a sense of certainty that yes this really will happen. The combination of the latest large language models with maturing agentic pipelines (often using MCP servers) mean that human level performance (or better) is achievable quickly
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