How I Learned to Give Up Programming and Accept AI
Thirty years of loving to program, a six-year-old at a qBasic prompt, and why I've mostly handed the keyboard to AI — not because I wanted to, but because it's no longer practical.…
AI Isn't the Dark or Light Side
AI is not inherently good or bad. But after a year of building with it, it sure feels like the Force.…
Turning Two Years of TikTok Bookmarks Into a Reading List
I turned roughly two years of saved TikTok book recommendations into a real reading list with OCR, STT, and a bunch of small agent passes.…
The Many Iterations of my Smart Home
tl;dr - OpenHab v3, SLZB-06, Proxmox, Dell PowerEdge R730xd Server, various zigbee devices. I've managed some semblance of a smart home for the past 7 years. This began as most things like these do - a toe in the water, then a foot, and then suddenly you'…
Bare Metal Zig
Lately I've had a nagging interest in working on a minimal OS again using Zig. To do that, seemingly I need to compile a freestanding Zig binary and then extend it into a Zig kernel capable of being ran by some bootloader.…
Migrating from Docker for Mac
So you don't want to use Docker for Mac anymore, huh? First, let's install docker and virtualbox. brew install docker docker-machine brew install --cask virtualbox Now let's create a "docker machine" using docker-machine. This wraps around virtualbox to spin up…
Making a Wi-Fi Smart Fan (Part 1)
A few years ago I started slowly transforming my house into a "Smart House". It started with some friends of ours showing us their smart bulbs and how they could tell Alexa to turn them on and off. I'll admit, I was skeptical of how smart…
Properties in C++20
C++ doesn't support getter/setter style properties. But you can get pretty darn close with templates or macros. #include <iostream> #include "properties.h" using namespace std; class User { private: int mId; int mWeight; int mPurse; int mBank; public: // Non-auto property only supporting get…