Leo's Blog, and other thoughts and writings
Blog-wise it's been a quiet Q2, unfortunately! Work has seen a step change in intensity, largely driven by AI initiatives, themselves driven by various middle-and-product-managers that are eager to prove themselves Capable of Shipping; we will yet see if they Capable of Maintaining. I am skeptical, but open to surprise. This quarter, my media consumption habits have drifted dramatically compared…
The end of Q1 is almost upon us! May all your OKRs be strategic, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timebound! This year, I'd like to try a slightly different pattern for writing about media that I enjoyed over the course of year. Usually, and for books in particular, I have a year-end compilation focusing on books. But, this takes a long time to write and compile, and I sometimes find myself…
This is a delightful indieweb thing from Mouseling that I found by way of Ruben Schade ! 1. Please introduce yourself. I'm Leo! I like computers and making computers do weird things. 2. How long have you been making websites? I made my first website in 6th grade! 3. And what got you into the hobby? My first website was a freewebs.com website whose main purpose was to use their hosted chatroom…
Well, it's happened again - I've become hyperfixated on a recipe. This time, as you may guess from the title, the object of my interest is rice krispie treats. So, just like the last time , or the time before that , or the time before that , I have some thoughts to share, and you get to read them! But first, the recipe (written in a style reminiscent of the challenge days on Great British…
Last, I installed a custom firmware on the Latitude 5430 Chromebook (device codename: CROTA) using the RW_LEGACY method , and installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. That was a very valuable learning experience, and I recently found myself interested in trying out touch experiences on Linux again, and so I returned to this device for this experiment because it has a large glass touchscreen. I am also…
Context (no pun intended) Over the past few months at work, we've implemented a LLM-based data analysis agent in a public (to the company) slack channel. The overall performance is pretty good, but of course, it makes the occasional mistake or misunderstanding. Generally, the process of implementing a new piece of tooling usually goes introduction -> calibration -> normalization, and this tool is…
I write this sitting at the gate in the Pittsburgh airport for my flight back to LAX, 5 hours and 10 minutes before departure. Those of you who know me have probably heard me say that I would rather wait inside an airport than outside one, and I so far have found that the Pittsburgh airport is an excellent place to wait. Especially in January, I think that it succeeds in delivering the Medium Size…
Once a year, I spend upwards of 24 hours (over several days) watching mostly German people talk about their antics with computers. I'm talking, of course, about the annual Chaos Communication Congress (C3), which religiously posts recordings of their talks, and slowly mirrors them to YouTube. This year's iteration was the 39th, hence 39C3. It's always a delightful time, and this year was no…
I just returned from a five-day trip to Denver, visiting some family for Christmas. I had planned on gifting a Tool Wrap after Tom Bihn announced their Holiday Debuts , and one of the things that they also announced at the same time was the Big Bantam in Periwinkle X-Pac. I already had a Bantam in Navy 420 Parapack and really liked it, so trying out the larger variant in a pretty color was of…
Since I last wrote about my favorite books for 2024 , it's been one year and one day. In that time, I've read 64 books totaling about 19,000 pages. I sometimes feel that my perception of time is very slow, but only gets faster when I'm having a good time, and y'all, while there are bright spots, this has not been, on balance, a good year. As a result, this year feels like it's dragged on for a…