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  • Some Favorite Recipes

    I’m hoping to be better at documenting which recipes we really enjoy – along with actual ingredients and instructions. But for now I thought I would list off some all-time favorites:

    December 4, 2025
  • ASUS ROG Laptops for AI Development

    Say you want a laptop with decent power for local AI development. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money, and you want a portable, sleek laptop (not a clunky “portable desktop”), consider the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14. You can get one of these from BestBuy, on a deal, for under $2000. It…

    September 2, 2025
  • tts Text to Speech with Conversion

    May 16, 2025
  • Cargo build freezing…

    Occasionally cargo build freezes near the last step (26/27 for me) and i ctrl-c. Then running cargo build again I get this error: “Blocking waiting for file lock on build directory” Searching the internets people claim this can be fixable by clearing out the package-cache (“rm -rf ~/.cargo/.package-cache”), however this doesn’t work for me. What…

    October 17, 2024
  • rust cxx crate: linking to external c++ shared lib

    I have a custom c++ shared library. I also have a rust application that needs to use that library. I had no problem making a build.rs using bindgen, however I wanted a little better c++ support so I turned to the cxx crate. All went well until link time as I was getting “unresolved symbols”……

    October 17, 2024
  • Tesla Model Y After 4 Years

    About 4 years ago I bought an early edition of the Tesla Model Y. I immediately loved it. I still think it is the best car available. When I purchased the car I also paid for Full Self Driving (FSD). It was understood that FDF wasn’t actually ready – but that it would mature over…

    September 28, 2024
  • Apple Watch Solo

    Apple makes some good products… I’m not so sure the Apple watch can be counted as one of them. Reasons: the battery life isn’t stellar, and, most importantly, it is an utter pain to set one up for family member. The setup problem is because apple requires an iphone to set up the apple watch…

    September 8, 2023
  • Note to self: Even rocky 9.2 uses bridge-utils

    Sometimes I decrypt LUKS volumes via dracut/dropbear (ssh). To enable this I follow the instructions from the dracut-ssh project. However since I usually use my linux boxes as hypervisors, and vms need a bridge, I end up with bridged networking. Now for the problem: if your dracut networking config does not align with your normal…

    August 14, 2023
  • Disneyworld sucks

    It’s not magical – no matter how many times they say it is. It is as magical as having a pickpocket empty your wallet everyday and giving you back only lost days of your life and a sunburn. I hope someone starts a new theme park that is actually based on some new ideas and…

    July 11, 2023
  • Review of Starlink Internet

    I have been using starlink for several months and have been thoroughly impressed! I switched to Starlink even though I live in an area with multiple high-speed internet options: Verizon FIOS, Comcast xfinity, etc… The “big boys” of internet. They all tout multi-hundred Mbit/sec internet downlink; in the case of fios symmetric uplink. Starlink, in…

    July 8, 2023
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