Rui Carmo← 2024
January 2025
- Apple Photos phones home, but doesn't actually tell Apple anything about you (links)
- Can LLMs Write Better Code? (links)
- Happy New Year 34.46.236.210! (notices)
- Notes for December 30-January 5 (notes)
- DOOM: The Gallery Experience (links)
- Nvidia's Project Digits: A Personal AI Supercomputer (links)
- Gemini
- Lenovo Unveils Legion Go S Handheld with SteamOS (links)
- Rodney Brooks' Predictions Scorecard (links)
- Notes for January 6-12 (notes)
- How I Use LLMs for Coding and Writing (blog)
- 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 (links)
- Brainwash An Executive Today! (links)
- The Supernote A6X2 Nomad (blog)
- Notes for January 13-19 (notes)
- Daring Fireball: BrikTok (links)
- Trump Promises a Golden Age in Inaugural Speech (links)
- Bambu's Promises After Controversial 3D Printer Update (links)
- Zed (apps)
- Notes for January 20-26 (notes)
- Nvidia falls 14% as China's DeepSeek sparks tech sell-off (links)
- LeaderKey (apps)
- Repebble (links)
- Deepseeking The Bing Image of The Day (blog)
February 2025
- The Sipeed NanoKVM Cube (blog)
- Notes for January 27-February 2 (notes)
- The Return Of Doomscrolling (blog)
- Apple Invites... Why? (links)
- UK Government Orders Apple to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor (links)
- Notes for February 3-9 (notes)
- Cerebras CS-3 (links)
- Hades
- Adventures in VDI (notes)
- Back to Mac (links)
- Notes for February 10-16 (notes)
- The Generative AI Con (links)
- Apple Unveils iPhone 16e, dropping the "SE" moniker (links)
- Obsidian Now Free for Work (links)
- Framework’s first desktop: A unique mini ITX gaming PC (links)
March 2025
- The iKOOLCORE R2Max (blog)
- M3 Ultra/M4 Max Mac Studio (links)
- Notes From An Unspecified Time (notes)
- Mercury Diffusion LLM (links)
- AI Progress: A Bear Case (links)
- The ArmSom AI Module 7 (blog)
- Apple Intelligence: The Emperor's New Clothes (blog)
- New PebbleOS Smartwatches (links)
- The JetKVM (blog)
- Notes on MCP (notes)
- Lumon Terminal Pro (links)
- Apple Needs a Reset (links)
April 2025
- Microsoft at 50 (links)
- Apple gets caught in a trade-war nightmare (links)
- The Chuwi Larkbox S (blog)
- A Classical Evening (photos)
- LinearMouse (apps)
- AI Does Not Spark Joy (blog)
- Cirque du Soleil (photos)
- The Polyphemus Filament Dryer (blog)
- DBeaver (apps)
- Easter Break (photos)
- Synology wants to sell razor blades too (links)
- Solvespace (apps)
- Horseless Carriages (links)
- A bit of a personal update (blog)
- The HomePod Mini
- Perplexingly Better Than Siri (links)
- Spain-Portugal Power Outage (links)
- Microsoft Digital Commitments in Europe (links)
- The Kingroon KP3S Pro (V1), Two Years Later
May 2025
- Model Context Protocol
- Large Language Models
- AI Speech Technologies
- AI Image Generation
- The Great AI Breakdown (notices)
- On The Apple U.S. App Guidelines Update (links)
- My Quest For Home Automation, Part 6 (blog)
- New 12-Inch ARM Surface Pro (links)
- Xogot: iPad Game Dev with Godot (links)
- Notes For Recent Weeks (notes)
- The Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V SBC
- The Vibes (blog)
- Microsoft Cuts 3% of Workforce (links)
- The Chuwi MiniBook X N150
- AMD Ryzen AI Max+ on Linux vs Windows (links)
- Early Summer Musings (blog)
- pico-mac-nano: a tiny Macintosh replica (links)