thoughts of kmaasrud
AI vs. an extra minute in the shower The sustainability of large language models is no new topic. I think most of us have heard of how immensely energy demanding the training process of these models is; Training GPT-3 consumed ~1.3 TWh [1] , producing greenhouse gas emissions of around half a thousand metric tonnes of CO 2 [2] . However, we know that they are also quite energy demanding during…
OPML is underrated As a response to the general enshittification of major platforms, I would say we are seeing a resurgence of the old web’s ethos, with personal blogs gaining traction and the concept of the small web on the rise. That might be colored by the digital communities I hang around in (which are mostly dominated by programmers) but it does at least empirically feel like a trend 1 . That…
You should track your finances in TOML No, really! Let me explain. I am quite particular with my finances. Having a proper accounting system helps me keep control of my spendings and what I am saving. Being a pretty nerdy guy, I quickly gravitated towards the plain text accounting movement, with which I ensure that I can control my data, switch systems if I want and do custom scripting around my…
Optimizing the hell out of my website I considered my old website to be pretty minimal. It is mostly static and includes almost no JavaScript, but I wanted to go extreme . Previously, my site weighed in at a pretty respectable 1.82 MB. That is not bad, and the size mostly comes from fonts which are easily cached. However, in my testing, it did take around 300 ms to load. That is not optimal IMO,…
My experience with Nix At the beginning of this year, I had read a lot about Nix and felt pretty confident that this wasn’t something for me. That was, until I did a voicecall with my good friend Victor . He was showing me these really neat tricks on how I could use Nix and Nix Flakes to handle configuration files, build software reproducibly and define my own development shell for each project…