Curiositry

As the mind calcifies and becomes less perceptive with age (and myelination), clever tactics are required to outfox it, remain open to wonder, and continue to learn. As usual, I stumbled upon the most basic solution, and wrote about it: autodidacts.io/selective-atte…

@curiositry I used a drill as a scroll saw today on 1/8" plywood, then filled the backing with gap foam - from the front it looks perfect #thereifixedit

I’ve often tried to think of examples of “function over form” thinking. Today I cut my floss with a lighter.

If you imported from Pocket CSV into Wallabag, and it didn’t include your favourites, here’s a script that bulk stars Wallabag entries by URL: autodidacts.io/star-entries-b… #100DaysToOffload #ReadItLater #Wallabag #Pocket #Python

While working on KOReader plugin development, I hacked together a script that repacks & restarts an AppImage every time I hit save: autodidacts.io/hotreload-an-a… #100DaysToOffload #KOReader #Lua #AppImage #Tutorial #Kobo #ReadItLater #Bash

Emacs IS an age verification scheme. Nobody under 40 uses it.

My free Silver price API now has an RSS feed with the day’s bid price Also, I now know about RFC-822 dates, which is not something I was interested in learning about autodidacts.io/free-daily-sil… #100DaysToOffload #Silver #RSS #Projects

We are in a computer literacy filter bubble: autodidacts.io/computer-liter… #100DaysToOffload #Culture #Tech

Someone I know started teaching a podcasting course at a better-than-average high school in one of the richest parts of one of the richest countries. After his first day, he told me, with wide eyes, some of the students don’t know how to move or copy a file.

An obvious solution to a simple problem, overlooked due to previous experience: autodidacts.io/i-fixed-my-cra… #100DaysToOffload #AWS #Swap #Linux #SystemAdministration

It’s 2026 and LibreOffice Calc still can’t parse JSON API responses without a plugin (I check every year or so) autodidacts.io/parse-filter-j… #100DaysToOffload #Rant #Spreadsheets #API #LibreOffice

My Free Daily Silver Price API is Live (albeit pre-alpha-ish) autodidacts.io/my-free-daily-… #100DaysToOffload #Silver #API #Projects

Sometimes reading the classics feels like being in on a secret. And the secret is that reading the classics is *fun* 🤯 autodidacts.io/dostoyevsky-is… #100DaysToOffload #Books #Reading #Dostoevsky

Yesterday @MistralAI released an open weights transcription model able to work in real time, Voxtral Mini 4B. Today, following the Whisper.cpp lesson, here is a C inference pipeline ready to use as a library, I hope you'll enjoy it: github.com/antirez/voxtra…

@VikParuchuri Would be cool if there were smaller versions that could run on middle of the road consumer hardware (~16gb RAM, older GPUs or decent CPUs) and compete with deepseek-ocr, Qwen3-VL (best I've found), or glm-ocr!

Let me know if you have any thoughts on this model - very excited to have it out.

I'm excited to announce that Chandra OCR is open source! - Full layout information - Extracts and captions images and diagrams - Strong handwriting, form, table support - Works with transformers and vLLM

I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I decided to make a super basic one. autodidacts.io/free-silver-pr… #100DaysToOffload #APIs #Silver #Preciousmetals #Finance

A guide to devolving your handwriting: autodidacts.io/personal-short… #100DaysToOffload #Productivity #Handwriting #Notetaking

A paean to splashing through puddles, and the joy that is unlocked by overcoming fear of rain and bad weather: autodidacts.io/human-beings-a… #100DaysToOffload #Health #Lifestyle

Overall, I'm really impressed. It’s so pleasant using software like Readeck that oozes craftsmanship at every step of the way. autodidacts.io/readeck-open-s… #100DaysToOffload #Readeck #Readitlater #Kobo #Reading #Opensource

I have updated my post about my experience with #Readeck so far, adding more information about using it with #KOReader (either OPDS or a plugin), article fetching success rate compared to Wallabag, etc.

they don't want you to know this but every gap in your resume is actually an opportunity to write “stealth startup” and then refuse to elaborate