TL;DR Converting Markdown to PDF on the Ubuntu desktop should be one command. Instead it took pandoc, a 295 MB LaTeX install, a Unicode error that killed the build, an LLM that recommended the wrong package manager, a 328 MB install I cancelled, and a tool called typst that apt flatly refused to install. I […]
Funny how the "miracle of LLMs and AI" makes debugging and troubleshooting worse. With fewer people documenting their struggles on platforms like Stackoverflow and online spaces – the slop-machines are hallucinating potential fixes and often failing. A human operator gets stuck in prompt and debug hell, struggling to learn the simple correct way of doing […]
I have been using opencode (and other agent harnesses) on my local Ubuntu machine. I usually give permission "always allow" once it asks for things like "ls" and "cat". Recently after doing this it went and read some personal documents and most definitely sent that over the internet to the model provider. This is the […]
Here is a list of private for-profit companies that provide elderly living services: accomodation, property, care facilities, Frail care and more. None of them are publicly listed. TotalCare Living Faircape Auria Senior Living TotalCare Living Totalcare provide lifestyle living, assisted living and frail care. Focused 100% on caring for the elderly as a for-profit private […]
This is an AI updated revision of the original post A stock update endpoint takes 5-14 seconds, blocking customer requests and locking up workers. The obvious fix is a background task queue – but which broker and Python client should you use? This post benchmarks Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Redis across reliability, throughput, and […]