Corviont runs MapLibre UI, vector tiles, Valhalla routing, and SQLite geocoding entirely offline on edge or on-prem devices - with a local map updater shipping next.

Sirius is a GPU-native SQL engine to accelearate DuckDB and other SQL databases, delivering order-of-magnitude faster analytics by fully unleashing the power of modern GPUs.

Turn a cheap Motorola Moto G 2025 into a portable Linux dev environment. What Can You Do With This? Host a website — See walmartphone.stetsonblake.com for a live example running on a Moto G 2025 Vibe…

I have tested the XIAO ePaper DIY Kit (ESP32-S3) – EE04 from Seeed Studio in depth. While its 6-color Spectra 6 display is impressive out of the box, I wanted to see if software could overcome hardware limitations. In this post, I’ll share how I’ve pushed…

I started tinkering with Ableton and MCPs over the holiday break and ended up creating 70+ automation tool calls and a mashup track.
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Finding ableton-mcp
While looking...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into perception in your brain.

SwifDroid documentation (Android framework for Swift).

Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has filed for an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, seeking to raise up to CNY 295 billion (about USD 42.2 billion) to upgrade DRAM manufacturing, advance next-generation memory technologies, and strengthen…

Xr0 is a verifier for C that eliminates undefined behaviour, like use-after-frees, double frees, null pointer dereferences and the use of uninitialised memory.

On a catchup call, I told my friend Nick Wignall how someone had trained an AI model to write blog posts in my style. It was a pure research exercise on their part. The idea was to train the tool on my past work, then give it the headlines and opening paragraphs…

A new series of research cruises will study rare abyssal species in areas slated for mining

Pickle Expose: Sliced and Diced

The image Tim Cook posted on Twitter/X (and which the Apple TV account retweeted) is ugly and awkward. It either *is* AI-generated slop or it looks like AI-generated slop for no artistic or thematic reason whatsoever.

Think smaller–then act.

Modern LLMs are trained to "think" primarily via explicit text generation, such as chain-of-thought (CoT), which defers reasoning to post-training and under-leverages pre-training data. We present...

Automatic differentiation implemented in python, inspired by Pytorch (easily extensible) - obround/mytorch

I made substantial changes in the KDE Developer Platform documentation over the years. I am effectively its docs maintainer and have the largest number of commits in the repository. This is due in large part because I started contributing to it in 2021, applied…