eGPU & Local LLM Inference

Running local LLM inference at home: a mini PC, a USB4 riser, and a second-hand RTX 3090 - the kernel-level quirks that make external GPUs on Linux more painful than they should be, and why it's still worth it: you understand exactly what's going on, and nothing you type leaves the building.

LLMs are making me lose my savviness

Things are getting boring - using LLMs is making software development not fun anymore

Use Your Brain: Engineering Standards in the Age of LLMs

Software development is not a niche anymore. The advent of LLMs made it possible for everyone to write their own software - and this is a good thing. However, I see a huge number of software engineers (the real ones!) falling into the vibe-coding trap. Those people were used to design - think! - and later implement. Now, instead, they are just producing a huge amount of dubious quality code, something that I would expect from the average Joe, not from a qualified software engineer.

Paying Google to Hack macOS Users?

Installing software with curl | sh is a bad habit - unfortunately common nowadays. This is an attack vector exploited through malvertising. The article describes what happens when someone blindly installs a tool from a sponsored website.