Friday, Jul 10, 2026
I am curious how LLM/AI has affected my cognition and behaviors. Many animals learn to adapt pretty quickly; humans are no different. I’m pretty sure there’s going to be some adaptations found in my own behavior. Here’s the pocket notebook for my experiment.
Figure 1: AI Free 72 pocket notebook
In this notebook I’ll write down every question I had for AI, every urge to reach for AI, and whatever else I noticed about myself during these 24 hours.
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Wednesday, Jul 8, 2026
I cloned my Debian 13 libvirt template VM and named the clone “occ”. This’ll be where I run weird OBD-II code without careful analysis.
You see, I decided to pivot away from SocketCAN/raw CAN and toward ELM327-based OBD-II diagnostics. Seems a bit easier to accomplish within the timebox. Besides, this way I can run ELM327-emulator in the VM, and run the DOS QEMU guest nested within the same VM. Keeps life simple.
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Tuesday, Jul 7, 2026
The Old Computer Challenge started last Sunday. Have been real busy so all I’ve done so far is brainstorming ideas and research. If I had infinite time, I’d consider OpenVMS + CAN bus silliness. CAN bus, a.k.a. controller area network, is used to interconnect bits and pieces of car electronics. (Imagine plugging OpenVMS into your car for diagnostics!) Buuuut, OpenVMS has been hamstrung by HP corporate overlords’ action against the HP hobbyist community.
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Saturday, Jul 4, 2026
By a guest automaton. Written by ChatGPT in a mock-medieval style.
FYI: Every post on blog.winny.tech which has AI content carries a madewithai tag.
Read on: Racket Yet Vexes Me Long ago, Winston wrote that Racket frustrated him. Years passed. The code slept. The ache endured.
A small pull request came to `toml-racket`: inspect, test, merge.
Yet Racket took toll.
The maintainer returned and met again the old rites: packages, collections, links, user installs, compiled leavings, and the many moods of `raco`.
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Sunday, Oct 12, 2025
As a studious GNU Units user, I have a small body of notes documenting various ways to perform calculations with unit conversions. Here are a few select ways that I found use of GNU units.
But first, a word about using GNU Units GNU Units is a powerful, free calculator that performs unit conversions for you. Please check out the examples on GNU Units’ homepage to see what it is capable of.
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Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025
Python 3.14 was released today and I caught myself reading the Python 3.14 release notes so figured I’d type up what changes caught my eye.
Installing Python There are probably better ways to do this. I opted to manually build and install Python 3.14:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/python3.14 && make -j && make install export PATH="$HOME/python3.14/bin:$PATH" which python3 # Should print out a path equivalent to $HOME/python3.14/bin/python3 python -m json This is a nice way to pretty-print JSON (both indentation and color).
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Monday, Oct 6, 2025
I am curious regarding how many packages existed on my system. Then I got to wondering how many are Google projects? How many are Apache projects? Are all packages fully installed?
Get a list of packages into sqlite First, one needs to create the sqlite3 file. The following bash script generates a .csv file with a header (that’s the echo command on the third line) and a dpkg-query incantation. Then the script prepares a sqlite file and imports the .
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