The author poses a sundry of text generating tasks aiming to test various abilities and evaluated them on various models. The result is posted on this site. It's a lot more intuitive than just a scoreboard.

On the techniques required to circumvent YouTube's download rate limit.

This article explained the ActivityPub protocol (used by Mastodon and others) by describing the essential endpoints which may be served simply in static json.

I love this approach of explaining things by reducing a complex thing into the minimalist essentials.

A utility to find subdomains for a domain.

Also see https://crt.sh.

Search the transcripts of PBS Space Time.

• How to find the scancode of a key (evtest),
• And map it to some known keycode (setkeycodes).

How to avoid texts shifting around with changing values in a variable pitch line?

1. use U+2007 FIGURE SPACE to pad numbers (not space, which may have different width to the digits)
2. use U+2212 MINUS SIGN instead of the ascii '-' character.

A book on the working of a Query Engine as part of a database.

A nice wayland protocol explorer.

A feature-rich search service for Reddit. Capability includes searching removed posts and comments.

Nice 8x8 bitmap fonts freely available.

A really interesting demo on visualizing on perplexity of a LLM. I knew about perplexity metric from the theory, where it's the average log-likelihood for the distribution of current tokens given previous tokens. The demo makes the idea more intuitive by showing the perplexity for each token and how they're calculated.

Self-hostable client side PDF tool set.

Search Wikipedia entries by meaning. It builds an embedding database for each Wikipedia articles. The search is done locally in the browser with onnx sentence transformer. The author has a post on how it was made possible with quantization to compact millions of vectors to manageable size (megabytes) for offline use.

Turns out there are, expectedly, people who look for alternative to Calibre. This is a comprehensive post listing the replacement for various features of Calibre.

I currently don't have a satisfactory solution yet.

Another iceberg explain post, this time for postgres!

A quick and easy to remember estimation.

Explore ffmpeg filters visually via a node editor.

Interesting negotiating tips.

A rather interesting short article on the tidbits in early Linux source code.