MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018 Instructor: Patrick Winston Students shouldn't go out in life without the ability to communicate. That is because your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order. Quality = Function of knowledge, practice, ... Read more
Updated 06-Aug-2026 Ebikes - E-Bikes are many and varied. This article attempts to discuss them in terms of technology, use case, and laws pertaining to them. The main point is that there are two kinds of ebikes, those treated as bicycles, and those treated as motorbikes, based mainly on the technology (motor size, maximum speed, ... Read more
Separate from image, video, or music creation, AI chat bots are generally not trying to make things up, but should be seen as text-analysis and reasoning tools. They don't get things right all the time, and sometimes need to be corrected multiple times. However, this is no worse than - and in many cases much ... Read more
Rice is one of the most important crops, but it is grown highly inefficiently in Thailand. SRI is a method to decrease inputs (water, fertilizer, pesticide) and increase yield. Observations of SRI in Nakorn Sawan, Thailand SSR Rice - Thailand Greenhouse gas emissions abatement in rice crops (video)
There are many different variations of solar power - utility-scale, large business, and home use - and many friends of such, making things easier and less expensive, or providing more opportunity to deploy. Solar fences Not just rooftops, but fences (and also of course vertical on walls). Europe install solar fences. Wall mounted (fence-mounted) solar ... Read more
If only we could combine: Soleva AOSAGI Solarky Details needed Needs to be < 3.5 metric tons (3,500kg), for ordinary driver's license. Solar panels and batteries will add a lot of weight, though battery capacity could be less due to on-demand solar charging. Basically 5m length 2m width, 3m height. Current Aosagi has 120 horsepower ... Read more
Updated 22-Jul-2026 Caddy is a high performance web server. It is actually 11 years old as of 2026. Strangely enough, Nginx is now 21 years old, and Apache web server is now 31 years old. Caddy is built with Golang. Just as we migrated from Apache to Nginx, now it is time to migrate to ... Read more
The 125cc equivalent electric motorbike is important because of the vast market and usefulness of these vehicles. From Europe or North America this isn't so clear as they are simply not present in the vast numbers they are in Asia. China and India alone account for the manufacture nearly 35 million new motorcycles per year, ... Read more
There are several parts of this but the path is fairly clear with China and Australia leading the way. On the Utility-scale solar, wind (and other) power generation, and utility-scale batteries (including pumped hydro, and Energy vaults. On the Home scale there is home solar, home batteries (Australia is championing this), EVs, ebikes, induction cooking, ... Read more
Updated 12-Jul-2026 See also Audiobooks - Mono in a Stereo World OBS Studio Podcast Platforms Podcasts Introduction To be honest I looked into podcasting about 7+ years ago and never really got into it. Only recently have I found two podcasts that truly engaged me, and that I watch (on YouTube). But it is clear ... Read more
See also: Go development This is mainly about developing with Go and AI code assistants. It includes tooling and configuration options. AI coding agents This focuses on affordable and open source models: Deep Seek (V4 Pro Max) Kimi (K2.6/K2.7) Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Go libraries go-deepseek/deepseek-go aicli dsk VSCodium extensions Cline (AI assistant that can ... Read more
Updated 11-Jul-2026 Legumes are the plant and pulses are the flower (e.g., peas to a pea pod/bean). These are an ancient source of nutrition. Apparently humans ate wild legumes for tens of thousands of years and started domesticating them between 11,000 and 10,000 years ago. Many legumes were consumed in a traditional Roman diet, and ... Read more
Updated 06-Aug-2026 Claws is a 25-year-old email client that is still getting updates. It started as a fork of Sylpheed, and is now using GTK3. The look is a bit old-fashioned, but it does have a reasonable dark mode, and is good at managing IMAP messages and folders. Claws Mail Features Great dark mode (looking ... Read more
Updated 25-Jun-2026 See also: Music distribution Music royalties Generative AI in Music All articles in the Music category The many royalties Besides royalties from streamers (see music distribution), there are a lot of royalty parts out there. This is clearly a legal minefield. Note that there are no royalties if there are no plays, so ... Read more
See also: Music distribution Music royalties Generative AI in Music All articles in the Music category Distributors The main music distributors are fairly well known. Probably all of them have some kind of problem with them. Many are dealbreakers. The biggest issue is (as is the case with most online services) response time and response ... Read more
Scraping bots (AI and otherwise) have increased to the point where they have become virtual denial-of-service attacks. I'm not against AI in general, as I use it in several areas, but those in charge of these bots engage in unconscionable behavior, a kind of *destruction-of-the-commons" phenomena. Anti-bot mitigation Anubis Zip bombs go-away Note that sourcehut ... Read more
This is my latest watch, replacing the Xiaomi Mi Band 8 Pro. I'll be comparing these directly. To be honest, this isn't something I planned on doing anytime soon (switching to another watch) but late one night there was an online shopping urge (and a very nice discount) and well, what can one say. Samsung ... Read more
Updated 05-May-2026 Great idea, though they really went overboard with the additional technology, making the cost somewhere around 7,500 USD in the United States. In Thailand, there are ebikes, configured like regular moterbikes/scooters, and three-wheel mobility between 20-30,000 Thai Baht (less than 1,000 USD). To make this cheaper: Optional components Roof/body Side view mirrors Windshield ... Read more
Updated 18-Jun-2026 This article was originally published on 08-oct-2024 on the Ruizu x52. Now it is expanded and mostly about the Ruizu x62. See also Ruizu mp3 player Sandisk Clip Jam mp3 player mp3 players and Linux Updated Ruizu x62 The updated Ruizu x62 improves upon, stays the same, and has degraded from the previous ... Read more
Audacity is an audio editor useful for a variety of things, though in no way a DAW (nor will it be). It is great for simple and fast functions, such as exporting in different formats, noise reduction, high- and low-pass filtering, and normalization, etc. Audacity tools Noise reduction (if needed) High pass filter Low pass ... Read more