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My writing focusses on machine learning, computer science and other topics that catch my fancy.

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Fix audio delay in CachyOS

Do you have a delay when playing back audio from your AMD GPU over a display port cable? This should help fix it:

Engineering Transformers

Various notes on engineering with Transformers.

Undervolting the Steam Deck

Undervolting the Steam Deck can make it run more efficiently and extend its battery life. Here’s the setup I used.

Porting GPT-2 to MLX for fun!

what is MLX?

Using OpenCode with local LLMs via LM Studio

OpenCode is an open source, terminal-based AI coding assistant – think Claude Code or Cursor but you can hook it up to your own models. By default it uses cloud providers, but the interesting bit is pairing it with LM Studio to run everything locally.

TIL: `ctop` - think `top` but for containers

See: https://ctop.sh/, described as:

How to compute the size of Pytorch tensors

It is fairly simple to compute the in memory size of Pytorch tensors with two handy methods: numel and element_size:

Reverse engineering PCB schematics using willpower and some sand paper!

Why does every browser pretend to be Mozilla?

I’ve finally completed GTA V

12 years after launch, I’ve finally completed the story mode of GTA V.

How to subscribe to GitHub Gists Atom feeds

While reading hackermondevs writeup on deanonymization attacks, I wondered if it was possible to subscribe to a Atom/RSS feed of GitHub Gists.

Time Machine backups over SMB

TIL: Firecracker VM

TIL about Firecracker VM, the underlying software powering AWS Lambdas and Fargate.

TIL: V8 Isolates

While reading How Workers works on Cloudflare’s blog, I learned about V8 Isolates.

RSS feeds can have styles (sort of)

While reading https://boehs.org/node/dark-web-security, I noticed something weird with their blog feed page.

How to setup multiple admin accounts on Immich

This guide assumes you’re running Immich using the recommended installation method.

Setting up `mitmproxy` on iOS

install the mitmproxy server

Who registers your domain names?

Most of us register and renew our domain names through various registrars such as Namecheap, Godaddy, the late Google domains etc. But how do the fortune 500 companies do it? I am glad you asked!

`tar` is fun?

Have you ever wondered why the unix command tar is a cryptic mess and everytime you need to use it you need to head back to the man page to look them up? Well fear no more – you could just remember these mnemonic flags instead and make your life easier!

Netflix: Stats for Nerds

Netflix on desktop has a hidden debug menu. The key combinations to trigger it are