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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Cycling is an amazing activity. It is great for physical/mental health and fitness, a practical form of transportation, and a great sport (technically a whole family of bike-based sports). One thing to know is that aerodynamic drag is the primary force slowing down a cyclist. Meanwhile, a primary nuisance on the bike is getting covered
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As I am designing a house, I have gone down the path of the ‘perfect wall’, working towards thick layers of continuous insulation and no roof overhangs. No roof overhangs really points towards using standing seam metal over rainscreen as siding. You might arrive at using standing seam metal siding for other reasons, simple longevity
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