Saul Tools

YouTube video by ExplainingComputers Explaining Agentic AI: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

youtu.be/Gvt4TwGpqOs?...

YouTube video by Letterman Grace Hopper Is The Computer Queen | Letterman

m.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2u... Grace Hopper is one of my favourite computing gods

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch I sit down with Grady Booch to put today’s AI automation claims in historical context and explain why software engineering is entering another golden age, not disappearing.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-third-... by @pragmaticengineer.com
GREAT episode (history of software)

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

It's important to note that it's not a short attention span, it's deliberately not being covered because media has been corrupted by fascist money. It's institutional, and deliberate.

Alien fan builds a better Raspberry Pi cyberdeck — The MU/TH/UR of all homages to a classic movie series In space, no one can hear you scream how good this cyberdeck is!

Tom's Hardware - Article
"Alien fan builds a better Raspberry Pi cyberdeck — The MU/TH/UR of all homages to a classic movie series"...

www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi...

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#librecanada #linux #opensource

Quick reality check:

My car's got a ~75 kWh battery. If that battery put out 1 kW of power, it could run for three days.

Get a thousand of those and you have a megawatt of power for three days.

Get a million of those and you have a gigawatt of power for three days.

Hyundai has sold 250,000

here is my friends link that gets you £ off: i.smarty.co.uk/2WKg1lx jus in case you feel like sharing too :)

I use Smarty (Three network) whenever i need extra data (I have the 50gig + unlimited calls plan for £8)
- payg 30 day contract, automatic renewals off by default)
- 12gb of free international roaming and free unlimited local calls in the EU
- was able to transfer my old number in + offer esims

Unexplainable podcast Unexplainable takes listeners right up to the edge of what we know…and then keeps on going. The Unexplainable team — Noam Hassenfeld, Julia Longoria, Byrd Pinkerton, and Meradith Hoddinott — tackles s...

episode name is “cloud atlas”: www.vox.com/unexplainable

A screenshot of text: “So I decided to start talking to a bunch of cloud scientists about this, and well, one of the first things you learn talking to cloud scientists is they really love clouds”

@nhassenfeld.bsky.social this made cackle today:

Somebody please find me 1700 PS5 boxes ASAP

An underappreciated point which I think got forgotten from older discourse is that one of the primary reasons ice needs to be shut down and abolished is that they are indistinguishable from random vigilantes.

And that is why now we must all act to protect people.

A Western Union telegram.

20 years ago today, Western Union discontinued its telegram service after 145 years.

Mozilla has the money to keep the open source Firefox browser going for decades, but instead it's going to burn through its cash on a brainless CEO's high salary and redundant AI development that will fail to compete with anything.

Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”

A picture showing an example output of the program on the city of Montréal and the autumn color scheme. You can see a map of the city with all the roads, trains, subways and light rail. At the bottom there the poster is titled MONTRÉAL - QUÉBEC. The latitude and longitude are also written under the title.

A picture showing an example output of the program on the city of Paris and the emerald color scheme. You can see a map of the city with all the roads, trains, subways and light rail. At the bottom there the poster is titled PARIS - FRANCE. The latitude and longitude are also written under the title.

A picture showing an example output of the program on the city of Tokyo and the japanese ink color scheme. You can see a map of the city with all the roads, trains, subways and light rail. At the bottom there the poster is titled TOKYO - JAPAN. The latitude and longitude are also written under the title.

A picture showing an example output of the program on the city of Berlin and the noir color scheme. You can see a map of the city with all the roads, trains, subways and light rail. At the bottom there the poster is titled BERLIN - GERMANY. The latitude and longitude are also written under the title.

Here is what I've been doing this past week: git.olaren.dev/Olaren/mapto...
A little python program that generates poster for cities! You might have seen stuff like this around lately, but I modified it to put an emphasis on rail infrastructure :3

will you write a blogpost detailing the build and specs or make a longer yt vid?

Do you loathe snap packages? me too!
I made this little bash script that lets me keep a close eye on them: gist.github.com/saultools/39...

(this script does not install or modify anything on your machine - it just reads existing data and advises you on managing it)

YouTube video by TechteamGB Matter vs ZigBee vs WiFi vs Bluetooth vs Thread vs ZWave - Which is the BEST Smart Home Network?

want to learn the differences (and great recommendations) between modern IOT protocols? then this is the video to watch. youtu.be/RX7nGsvw1M0?... #zigbee #matter #esphome

It’s 20026: Mooxford university open-sources designs for an electro-moochanichal vacooom tube cooomputing experiment:
the research design project aptly named: “COWMPOOTER”

20126: First crewed bovine space-flight

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

A workflow diagram: Have great idea Finish project Start project Tell everyone The finish project is missed out.

Morning

the wii has been up for 52 DAYS!?

Fujitsu Oasys 30AF (1986)

Mac OS 8 (1997)

basic electronics desk and tools set up to test a small battery charging board

saturdays are for electronics tinkering, if you ask me…

Intertapes — Main Obscure tape finds and their stories

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Allow me to connect some dots for you:

Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more.

Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

a red original Mini Cooper parked between two Tesla Cybertrucks

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)