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Code and Life·31 Aug 2026

AI inference efficiency keeps pushing on. A few years ago the wisdom was that the human brain is WAY beyond the efficiency of GPUs in data centers.

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Code and Life·3 Aug 2026

I have a 2 TB backup drive that was written on Linux: LUKS2 encryption, ext4 inside. Plugging it into a Mac gets you the "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" dialog, with...

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Code and Life·3 Aug 2026

I got to do some data recovery work with an old HDD that used to be in the office machine of a small nonprofit. The PC was decommissioned, but the files needed going through.

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Code and Life·10 Jul 2026

Vibe coding has left me with quite a few small development apps. Starting any one of them is easy, but first I need to remember where it lives, whether it uses Bun, npm, uv or something else, and...

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Code and Life·26 Feb 2026

KittenTTS is a neat open-source text-to-speech model that packs a surprising amount of punch in sizes as low as 25 MB.

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Code and Life·4 Jan 2026

tl;dr Wrote a HTML based debug tool and two mini games for Novation LaunchPad, try it out on Chrome if you have one: Longer version (templated with Claude Sonnet using the github commit): I've been...

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Code and Life·17 Dec 2025

After setting up tools.codeandlife.com last week, I needed to actually create some tools for it. Simon Willison's detailed example of using LLMs for code inspired me — his...

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Code and Life·16 Dec 2025

I released the JUnzip library back in 2014 as a minimalistic C library for reading ZIP files without heavy dependencies.

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Code and Life·11 Nov 2025

After about 6 years in hiatus, AI vibe coding finally enabled me to update my JavaScript-based Go board rendering library, jGoBoard.

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Code and Life·9 Dec 2024

***Update 2025: I've had more trouble with this fish binding than it is worth. I've crippled my fish shell irrecoverably a couple times and had numerous issues trying to adapt for bash and zsh.

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Code and Life·9 May 2024

After a bit of AI hiatus, I noticed that llama 3.0 models were released and wanted to try the models. Sure enough, after a week the weights we re available at the official site.

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Code and Life·10 Feb 2024

Continuing the awesome and not so unique stream of ideas on what to do with ChatGPT, here's a bit modified take to my previous post on self-running ChatGPT generated Python code.

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Code and Life·4 Apr 2023

I previously covered how to run your own ChatGPT script with Python and Golang. But what if you want to create a script that automatically runs the ChatGPT generated code?

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Code and Life·25 Mar 2023

OpenAI came out with ChatGPT, and wow, that is quite something. What is also remarkable is the load the ChatGPT client is under, and how often it is "experiencing high demand".

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Code and Life·15 Feb 2023

Having done 433 Mhz radio signal recording with PicoScope 2208B MSO and Raspberry Pi 4, Arduino Uno and regular USB soundcard, I figured, why not add one more to the mix: Let's try the RP2040!

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