IT Systems Engineer · Fort Lauderdale, FL
Systems engineer who writes the software. 7+ years as the sole or lead technologist for multi-site networks, Linux and Windows systems, Microsoft 365 and endpoint fleets, and the Python and JavaScript automation that ties them together.
Now building LLM tooling for operations: Zendesk ticket triage and an RMM troubleshooting agent. I isolate a fault to the layer it lives in, fix it there, and script the fix so it stays fixed.
What the nerds are reading. Refreshed every 15 minutes.
Running vintage DOS games using CPU-based software renderers on fast modern hardware delivers sharp, uncompressed graphics that outperform early 3D acceleration.
StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 evaluates LLMs by giving them one hour to write C++ StarCraft bots and measuring their win rates against human-written opponents.
eBay restricted certain radio equipment listings to comply with FCC rules regarding national security threats, but exempted gear operating exclusively on amateur radio frequencies.
Current Affairs has adopted a strict anti-AI policy under its new union contract, banning AI-generated text and art from the magazine to protect human creativity.
The Simons Foundation, Anthropic, and OpenAI launched a $15 million initiative to fund programs, computing resources, and tools helping mathematicians adapt to artificial intelligence.
A developer used AI agents paired with a hardware test harness to reverse-engineer drivers for unsupported Linux devices by diffing Windows and Linux USB traces.
An Oxford physics student reflects on how the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT degraded collaborative learning and problem-solving among graduate peers.
After four years of development and pivoting from an IPFS implementation to a QUIC and BLAKE3-based toolkit, the team has released Iroh 1.0.
A guest post on Terence Tao's blog satirizes the automated generation of massive volumes of unreadable scientific and mathematical papers by AI systems.
This tutorial explains how to use POSIX command-line tools and ImageMagick to convert the text of Moby Dick into an animated 88x31 pixel GIF.
A benchmark of image formats for the web concludes that AVIF generally produces smaller files than JPEG XL for lossy photos, screenshots, and transparency.
A developer shares three modern C23 coding conventions—using [[maybe_unused]], relying on C23 union zero-initialization, and explicitly typing enums—to avoid common pitfalls.
Community members share their personal technical projects, weekend plans, and hobbies in a periodic forum discussion.
Rust 1.99.1 is now available, fixing regressions related to missing wcslen symbols, FFI bool return value miscompilations, and rust-lld loading issues on macOS.