Devlin Bentley
@thedevlinb.bsky.social
I make things. Compilers → Microsoft Band → HBO Max → LLM/AI. https://www.tinytown.ai/
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Devlin Bentley
@thedevlinb.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Let's Do Some Actual Innovative Sh*t
Remember back before everything was SaSS and companies had original ideas? Back when tech companies designed cool stuff under the expectation that they’d sell cool stuff to customers for money and the...
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev
Remember when tech companies had wild ideas for a future that benefited everyone? In this blog post I pretend that's still how things are. Locally hosted LLMs running a (offline) smart house. Because we should dream big.
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some...
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some...
Lost my 12+ year old reddit account to a bot take over. Stole my account (old PW, my fault, no 2fa, also my fault), did vote manipulation, got me banned. Appeal denied. Irritating.
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Lost my 12+ year old reddit account to a bot take over. Stole my account (old PW, my fault, no 2fa, also my fault), did vote manipulation, got me banned. Appeal denied. Irritating.
Everyone says phonics is best for teaching reading, but I grew up surrounded by classmates who learned to read with phonics and almost all of them were terrible readers. It is sad we are trying to return to the good old days of kids being merely incompetent at reading instead of actively bad at it.
October 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Everyone says phonics is best for teaching reading, but I grew up surrounded by classmates who learned to read with phonics and almost all of them were terrible readers. It is sad we are trying to return to the good old days of kids being merely incompetent at reading instead of actively bad at it.
2 for 2 on PopOS package updates bringing down my system and requiring a hard reboot. #popos #linuxdesktop
September 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
2 for 2 on PopOS package updates bringing down my system and requiring a hard reboot. #popos #linuxdesktop
The weirdest thing that ever happened in my tech career has to be the time the white house called and asked us to help keep America safe from ebola. meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/that-time-ob... #ebola #obama #wearables #microsoft
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev
September 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The weirdest thing that ever happened in my tech career has to be the time the white house called and asked us to help keep America safe from ebola. meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/that-time-ob... #ebola #obama #wearables #microsoft
That thread on the HN front page right now where people who cook bland food are confused about why stove vent hoods are needed.... 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🐟 🐟 🐟
September 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
That thread on the HN front page right now where people who cook bland food are confused about why stove vent hoods are needed.... 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🐟 🐟 🐟
I haven't read any fiction with religious undertones since Narina in grade school. The literary depiction and underlying themes of Buddhism in the Nexus Trilogy by @ramez.bsky.social are fascinating, because of both their beauty and because of how novel religious themes in literature are for me.
September 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I haven't read any fiction with religious undertones since Narina in grade school. The literary depiction and underlying themes of Buddhism in the Nexus Trilogy by @ramez.bsky.social are fascinating, because of both their beauty and because of how novel religious themes in literature are for me.
It never ceases to amaze me that as an industry we finally solved home printing as a technical problem, just in time for people to stop caring about printing at home. But hey, good job, at least we (finally) did it!
September 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It never ceases to amaze me that as an industry we finally solved home printing as a technical problem, just in time for people to stop caring about printing at home. But hey, good job, at least we (finally) did it!
Before I became part of the eternal September of 1995 I posted on local BBSs. Once I got yelled at for not using paragraphs. I was 9 and they hadn't been taught in school yet. I wanted to be accepted so I learned how to write properly. `course nowadays paragraphs are an outdated skill. #charlimits
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Before I became part of the eternal September of 1995 I posted on local BBSs. Once I got yelled at for not using paragraphs. I was 9 and they hadn't been taught in school yet. I wanted to be accepted so I learned how to write properly. `course nowadays paragraphs are an outdated skill. #charlimits
The fact that Spotify doesn't have visualizers on its Android TV app is proof that there is no one left in this field doing stuff just because it is awesome and needs to be done.
#docoolshit #milkdrop #winamp
#docoolshit #milkdrop #winamp
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The fact that Spotify doesn't have visualizers on its Android TV app is proof that there is no one left in this field doing stuff just because it is awesome and needs to be done.
#docoolshit #milkdrop #winamp
#docoolshit #milkdrop #winamp
I made the mistake of accepting all system updates on my PopOS install and then the screen went blank and my fans started blowing 100% but a YT video is still playing in a FF tab!
Thankfully KDE came back after a hard reboot. The Linux update experience unchanged for 20 years!
#linuxdesktop #popos
Thankfully KDE came back after a hard reboot. The Linux update experience unchanged for 20 years!
#linuxdesktop #popos
September 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I made the mistake of accepting all system updates on my PopOS install and then the screen went blank and my fans started blowing 100% but a YT video is still playing in a FF tab!
Thankfully KDE came back after a hard reboot. The Linux update experience unchanged for 20 years!
#linuxdesktop #popos
Thankfully KDE came back after a hard reboot. The Linux update experience unchanged for 20 years!
#linuxdesktop #popos
TIL Firefox on Linux doesn't support Nvidia's driver's API for HW video decode, which is why the entire browser slow to hell when any tab with video is open.
September 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
TIL Firefox on Linux doesn't support Nvidia's driver's API for HW video decode, which is why the entire browser slow to hell when any tab with video is open.
I've been try to stick to FF on my Linux box but it performs so badly. 9700X, 64GB RAM, and the entire browser just feels sluggish. Chrome is so snappy in comparison. I can watch FF stick to one core and chug along at 15fps if a YT video is playing. #firefox #linux #linuxdesktop
September 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I've been try to stick to FF on my Linux box but it performs so badly. 9700X, 64GB RAM, and the entire browser just feels sluggish. Chrome is so snappy in comparison. I can watch FF stick to one core and chug along at 15fps if a YT video is playing. #firefox #linux #linuxdesktop
Linux machine is mostly stable. Switched to KDE. Learned sometimes "not waking from sleep" can be fixed by changing to a virtual console and back to X. Occasional gfx corruption. Webgl perf is very hit or miss, e.g. 100fps or 5fps depending on the site.
September 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Linux machine is mostly stable. Switched to KDE. Learned sometimes "not waking from sleep" can be fixed by changing to a virtual console and back to X. Occasional gfx corruption. Webgl perf is very hit or miss, e.g. 100fps or 5fps depending on the site.
Day 2 of Linux desktop: waking from sleep the lock screen isn't up so I can see the desktop and interact with it for ~1 second then the lock screen appears. Keyboard input goes to apps. I thought this was solved years ago. W-T-F. The distro has default disk encryption but the lock screen does this?
August 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Day 2 of Linux desktop: waking from sleep the lock screen isn't up so I can see the desktop and interact with it for ~1 second then the lock screen appears. Keyboard input goes to apps. I thought this was solved years ago. W-T-F. The distro has default disk encryption but the lock screen does this?
Today's the day I'll leave windows and go to Linux. Everything works first try! All HW detected. One minor version kernel update later and my wifi and BT don't work. Linux - celebrating over 3 decades of drivers breaking themselves on minor updates.
August 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today's the day I'll leave windows and go to Linux. Everything works first try! All HW detected. One minor version kernel update later and my wifi and BT don't work. Linux - celebrating over 3 decades of drivers breaking themselves on minor updates.
Asked claude code to add .dotenv support to a project. It proceeded to write a parser for .dotenv files. No, please don't do that.
August 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Asked claude code to add .dotenv support to a project. It proceeded to write a parser for .dotenv files. No, please don't do that.
Yes or no, is this food? Cruel cruel product design. #confusingfood #donoteat
July 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yes or no, is this food? Cruel cruel product design. #confusingfood #donoteat
Who the heck thought it was a good idea to make a product "Astronaut ice cream - do not eat"?
July 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Who the heck thought it was a good idea to make a product "Astronaut ice cream - do not eat"?
The final endgame isn't Hollywood using AI to generate movies, it is personalized addictive videos generated on your phone delivered directly to you. Grab 80% of the population and none of the existing media business models work anymore.
May 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The final endgame isn't Hollywood using AI to generate movies, it is personalized addictive videos generated on your phone delivered directly to you. Grab 80% of the population and none of the existing media business models work anymore.
Python is the solution of 50 different problems hard coded as syntax and hammered into one language. JavaScript is 2 pieces of syntax (functions as first class objects, and object maps) hammered into place for 50 different problems.
March 6, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Python is the solution of 50 different problems hard coded as syntax and hammered into one language. JavaScript is 2 pieces of syntax (functions as first class objects, and object maps) hammered into place for 50 different problems.
LLMs are only as good as the material they train on.
Claude writing TS: adds type annotations by default, suggests type guards.
Claude writing Python: # type: ignore
Claude writing TS: adds type annotations by default, suggests type guards.
Claude writing Python: # type: ignore
March 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
LLMs are only as good as the material they train on.
Claude writing TS: adds type annotations by default, suggests type guards.
Claude writing Python: # type: ignore
Claude writing TS: adds type annotations by default, suggests type guards.
Claude writing Python: # type: ignore
Remember when tech companies had wild ideas for a future that benefited everyone? In this blog post I pretend that's still how things are. Locally hosted LLMs running a (offline) smart house. Because we should dream big.
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some...
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some...
Let's Do Some Actual Innovative Sh*t
Remember back before everything was SaSS and companies had original ideas? Back when tech companies designed cool stuff under the expectation that they’d sell cool stuff to customers for money and the...
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev
February 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Remember when tech companies had wild ideas for a future that benefited everyone? In this blog post I pretend that's still how things are. Locally hosted LLMs running a (offline) smart house. Because we should dream big.
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some...
meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some...
No American company is incentivized to make affordable models. Engs need to justify large budgets and salaries, CEOs want to raise lots of capital to help valuation, and Nvidia wants to sell massive GPU clusters. Similar happened with mainframes in the 70s/80s. Incumbents don't want efficiency!
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
No American company is incentivized to make affordable models. Engs need to justify large budgets and salaries, CEOs want to raise lots of capital to help valuation, and Nvidia wants to sell massive GPU clusters. Similar happened with mainframes in the 70s/80s. Incumbents don't want efficiency!