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I got tired of rebuilding my diagnostic USB on every machine, so I fixed it once

very IT tech I know has the same ritual. New machine lands on the bench, or you're at a client site, and before you can actually fix anything you spend twenty minutes assembling the same handful of tools. Download this. Extract that. Oh, this one wants .NET. Oh, this box has no internet. Oh, the client's policy blocks installs. I did that dance for years. Then I got tired of it and built a portable kit that lives on one USB stick and installs nothing. This post is mostly about what belongs on th

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Stop Asking AI to "Write Code". Teach It How to Work.

Most developers use AI like autocomplete. The best developers use it like a software engineer. Over the past year, AI coding assistants have become part of our daily workflow. Whether you're using ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, they can generate code in seconds. But here's the problem: Most of us are still writing prompts like: "Build me a login page." or "Fix this bug." But what is the result? After exploring Matt Pocock's open-source Skills repository, I realized some

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Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store

Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store Most well-known mpv-based Mac players, including IINA, distribute outside the Mac App Store. When I built Reel, a local-video player/library app for macOS, I wanted to know why, and whether it could be done. It can. It took a month from first commit to approval, and almost none of the hard parts were about playing video. This is a field report of every wall I hit: a JIT crash that only happens under the App Store's rules, LGPL complianc

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You Don't Need MIDI-OX Anymore: Building a SysEx Librarian with the Web MIDI API

You Don't Need MIDI-OX Anymore: Building a SysEx Librarian with the Web MIDI API If you own a Yamaha DX7 or a Roland Juno-106, you already know the ritual. Install a utility from 2003. Fight USB-MIDI drivers on Windows 11. Open MIDI-OX. Configure ports. Pray the SysEx buffer doesn't choke mid-dump. Save a .syx file with a name like backup_final_v3_REAL.syx. Lose it anyway. I built knob.monster to kill that ritual. It's a browser-native cloud librarian: plug in your synth, capture a bank, see p

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Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home

The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11. 44-year-old Michael Butler was arrested on Wednesday and claimed to have been driving his Model 3 using Tesla's Full-Self Driving (FSD) system at the time of the crash, according to an arrest affidavit. The court document includes the officer saying that data extraction from Butler's phone found several FS

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Hardware-Rooted AI Security That Won’t Slow You Down

AI has transformed how organizations operate, driving unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. However, AI adoption can be impeded by concerns... AI has transformed how organizations operate, driving unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. However, AI adoption can be impeded by concerns surrounding data privacy, sovereignty and how to secure data while it is in use, or during inference and engagement with AI models. NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) was engineered to be

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