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Running a language model on an AMD Radeon HD 8330E iGPU

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What? Running Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 on a AMD Radeon HD 8330E at 7.1 generated tokens per second This GPU is a weaker cousin of the GPU on ...

Running a code companion on a 2080 Ti

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I've been looking for a model that can read code quickly and provide a summary. Mostly because at the moment I'm often digging into unfamiliar ...

Back to Mosquitto MQTT for v5

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why? My Home Assistant instance started throwing warnings about an upcoming deprecation of support for MQTT protocol version 3.1.1 and migration to MQTT protocol version ...

Ephemeral NATS MQTT broker in Docker

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why? Though I had gotten Mosquitto MQTT broker working and it was successfully passing messages back and forth from Home Assistant, I still had nagging ...

Ephemeral Mosquitto MQTT broker in Docker

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Setup It is possible to setup a nearly-stateless MQTT broker in docker, with password security. This required a few steps that were annoying to stub ...

Victor, a sprite-based SHMUP

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019 I wrote Viktor, a sprite-based shoot-em-up (SHMUP) drawing inspiration from 1942 and Galaga. (code is here , play it here .) This was ...

Asteroids in P5.js

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Back in 2018 I wrote an Asteroids clone using P5.js . (code is here , play it here .) The code was written in Javascript. ...