Serial RS232 + Crossover Keystones
Good times with RJ45 patch panels, Cisco rollover cables, and custom cable pin-maps.
Engineering
Sunday Homelab TPM OMGOSH
an overwhelming sense of looming project management overload
LLM Variants - Purpose Tuned Models
A minor primer on choosing specialized LLM variants for agentic workflows
Saturday Morning Inference
A bit more focus on LLMs, Ai Perf, and some Acronyms for Optimizing
Good Morning from the Glossary
Words have meaning - requirements for 'Continuity of Shared Reality'
On FOSS, OSS, and Give Me Money
Thoughts on the evolution of FOSS into $OSS, man pages, and the great un-learning
System Migration Complete, and Now it's Cherry Time
ZFS sync from box to box, impatience, performance, routines
Need more PCIe slots, not more lanes, but slots.
Staring at this board, mentally converting PCIe lane count to device requirements, only to consider that yet again... It's 2025. We're still using the PCIe slot standard for most motherboards, even on enterprise boards. Who's doing this right, at least marginally so? ASRack (brain, please grow up and stop making elementary jokes) has been putting four physical x16 slots on their "Deep mini-ITX&