The Weekly Sniff 005

A roundup of links (linkdump) from the optimistically last week but more likely last month.

Best in show

Do You Know What VAD Is?

Thoughts and commentary on VAD

Hard Refresh

This was rough, but a very good read.

Small web finds

I’m Tired of Being on the Network

You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the fork. Everyone

matduggan.comMathew Duggan

Yup trying to not be terminally online myself...

When Computers Became Appliances

Computers became easier to use when they started acting like appliances, but that convenience came with a loss of control.

Dead Parrot BBSnickb

With the APK sideloading ban incoming, I feel this more than ever.

A day is short, a life is long - overkill.wtf

I turned 35 today. I think I have figured out a few things. Happy birthday to me!

overkill.wtf

Been loving Kevin's stuff lately.

Unskilled and (un)aware of it - This is my blog now

Hiya! Does this serve any real purpose other than “SEO”? If you know, please tell me!

This is my blog now

Been struggling balancing life forever, but especially recently. I think whining is fine every so often.

Bug blindness

Is it a feature or a bug lolz. Anyways great rundown and I like how he got into people learning to hold things wrong on purpose.

People’s Old Saves Kinda Make Me Sad

When you load up someone’s old saves, you can’t help but think…

Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog

I think I overly enjoy watching people fix old Pokemon games .... Nostalgia is a helluva drug.

Rubenerd: Should you buy a ThinkPad?

By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.

RubenerdRuben Schade

Pretty much agree with everything Ruben says. I am an avid Thinkpad lover myself though and will happily trudge through the SKU hell.

Sad but happy

Played a gig with my band tonight. A gentleman came up and said he knew my father when they were young - teenage and early adulthood. Said he thinks my d…

GLÖNK

Tools and systems

Host Quartz Static Site on Bunny.net with Middleware Script

I wrote a note about an issue I was facing when trying to host my Quartz site on Bunny.net Storage and CDN (affiliate …

BurgeonLabNaty S

I love static sites and I love Bunny!

Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford

Seize the means of code production!

./techtipsyHerman Õunapuu

Fantastic write up on local LLM's with the below one being a good adjacent post

How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I’ve found

TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization

The AutodidactsCuriositry

GitHub - xammen/BetterTrumpet: eartrumpet fork. the best volume mixer on windows. nothing else.

eartrumpet fork. the best volume mixer on windows. nothing else. - xammen/BetterTrumpet

GitHub

Better sound settings on Windows.

The Website Specification

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.

The Website Specification

Made for LLM's but just good to have if you do any sort of web dev.

Loose links

Macbook Pro long-term report 3 - It’s a peaceful life

Long-term use report 3 of my Macbook Pro and macOS, including Tahoe 26.6 upgrade, excellent and peaceful system usability and productivity, great battery life, tiny problems and annoyances, and more

It's a peaceful life

Can you be friends with your competitor?

Murat Çorlu is the founder of Synaps Media – a managed Ghost host built, in his words, as "a calmer way to run Ghost." He's also a direct competitor to Magic Pages, and a friend, which is…

Pocket CastsPocket Casts

I love Synaps that's whats hosting this blog now. A fantastic conversation about collaboration opensource and small businesses.

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

<p>I’ve befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I’ve ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie…

Mr. Market

I think Ceos are always prone to being egotistical maniacs just based on the type of people who become Ceos. Pretty sure the 1 in 5 studies are disproven though....

OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before

OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.

OpenShot Video EditorOpenShot Studios, LLC

Old school opensource video editor getting great new features.

Have a great weekend!

This is day 42 of #100DaysToOffload