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What's in the Garden? 2026 Edition.

Some plants and things growing in my garden this year.

Rich Infante · EN

Compaq SLT - Battery Power

With off-the-shelf parts, I've hacked together a battery for my Compaq SLT/286.

Rich Infante · EN

Hardware Review: AirCube Pro

I purchased this tiny air quality monitor after seeing it on social media - let's try it out!

Rich Infante · EN

Home Automation Macro Pad (WIP)

A macro pad board I designed for the Seeed MG24, to integrate with my smart devices

Rich Infante · EN

Installing Mac OS X Mountain on my old laptop

I don't use my old laptop anymore. Let's restore it to its original-ish software!

Rich Infante · EN

The Quest for Night Mode

Implementing a Pebble Watch Night Hiking App, and the quest for similar on my Apple Watch.

Rich Infante · EN

Retro Christmas Lights Reviews

Comparing several popular "retro glow" style LED christmas lights.

Rich Infante

Easily create cool random images in python with randimage

I was planning to add profile pictures to my now defunct social-app for musicians Riff on That and I wanted to offer a randomly generated picture as a default option. I had a look around for existing solutions in python and couldn’t find anything to my liking, so I came up with randimage. This is… The post Easily create cool random images in python with randimage appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

Topic modeling with transformers: farewell LDA

Topic Modeling is an unsupervised learning procedure similar to clustering. In this post I give a brief overview of Topic Modeling, present my library transformertopic and apply it to scraped news about COVID The post Topic modeling with transformers: farewell LDA appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

COVID news topics

Topic Modeling is an unsupervised learning procedure similar to clustering. In this post I give a brief overview of Topic Modeling, present my library transformertopic and apply it to scraped news about COVID The post COVID news topics appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

If you take away the hype, blockchains remain mega-cool

I’ve heard some valid criticism of blockchain tech: it is a very inefficient database, there’s nothing substantially new people are doing with it, DeFi is self-referential. All of these have some truth in them. On top of this the industry is over-hyped and inundated by startups with millions in funding and flashy websites with a… The post If you take away the hype, blockchains remain mega-cool appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

Reimagining LLMs: one industry they will change forever (and no one will complain)

DE is hard and often requires for ad-hoc code changes to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the specific dataset. LLMs could offer a big help in assisting and eventually automating these tasks. The big players to watch out for are those with established low-code DE solutions, especially those already intimate with ML such as anomalo. The post Reimagining LLMs: one industry they will change forever (and no one will complain) appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

zkPass.org: a technical deep dive

zkPass allows to unlock web2 data for web3 applications, with privacy. Scroll down to get the full technical deep dive. What is zkPass? zkPass is a protocol that uses Zero-Knowledge proofs to let you prove facts about your private Web2 data (from any HTTPS website) to Web3 applications. You can verify your identity, reputation, or… The post zkPass.org: a technical deep dive appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

Vault Bridge: a permissioned MCP middleware for agentic workflows

TL;DR: Giving LLMs access to a knowledge base is easy. Giving them scoped, permissioned, read/write access without handing over the keys to the kingdom is hard. Vault Bridge is a Rust middleware layer that sits between an Obsidian LiveSync database (CouchDB) and an MCP client, enforcing policy-as-code boundaries. The code is available at https://github.com/nareto/vault-bridge. The… The post Vault Bridge: a permissioned MCP middleware for agentic workflows appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN

How to stop trading safety for speed

Five checks to keep your AI coding agents' speed and stay safe, with a 5-minute checklist. Read it here or download the free PDF. The post How to stop trading safety for speed appeared first on Renato Budinich .

Renato Budinich · EN