Kaspars

@kasparsd
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I'm a maker interested in #passivehouse #buildingscience #homelab #homeassistant #esphome #electronics #opensource #wordpress #docker, #automation and #personalfinance

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KasparsMay 22

The Jetpack monorepo is 767MB 🐡

Mostly because of the tracked build files (roughly 360MB) which are not even part of the current work tree.

KasparsMay 20

Would you trust AI to run this?

Will it actually apply those single quotes when running it?

It created the ~ directory itself during previous runs so it is trying to clean up.

Show threadKasparsMay 20
I first heard about this concept from Adam Jacob on the Changelog podcast covering his Swamp project https://changelog.com/friends/130
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Changelog & Friends #130)

This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five and shipped Swamp 900 times in four weeks, why he brought User Acceptance Testing (UAT) ...

Changelog
KasparsMay 20

Here is a crazy idea -- pull requests will get replaced by issues or feature requests as the primary way of contributing to open source projects.

Pull requests require that we trust the code offered for merging. Yes, we can ask AI to review the code but there is still a lot of risk associated with it.

As humans we can reliably control only the inputs to the AI models which is the issue or feature request describing the desired outcomes.

Show threadKasparsMay 15

@py2toz with a 6V panel you don’t need MPPT since it is so close to the voltage of the board.

I would connect it directly to Heltec’s 5V pins since the onboard TP4054 can handle 6.5V per datasheet.

Wrote about my experience here https://kaspars.net/blog/solar-lora-meshtastic

Building a Solar Powered Lora Meshtastic Community Network

Meshtastic is a wonderful project for creating decentralised text-based communication networks for local communities using low power (and low cost) Lora radios. Fun fact -- the Meshtastic logo appears to reference the chirp modulation used by Lora. The best way to learn about the project is to explore the forum, join the Discord server and...

Kaspars Dambis
KasparsMay 4

Federated and independent web is a user experience and usability challenge.

Here is a great list of known issues and how they’re being addressed across the ecosystem. https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card/

The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card

Six months after an initial analysis, two Fediverse experts come back to examine where user experience has changed. Are we on the path of redemption, or repeating the same old sins?

We Distribute
KasparsApr 21

Funny how macOS search (both Finder and Spotlight) is so bad that I don’t even think of using it.

Imagine how bad AI would do if it couldn’t search properly.

Are there recent Mac apps that are trying to solve this?

KasparsApr 20
Somebody should unleash AI agents on the WP trac backlog, have it track all steering decisions and see where we land. We sure could get a core committer skill out this 😅
Show threadKasparsMar 30
A sidecar approach might work better but it would require polling for filesystem changes and parsing the cache files which do have the response headers in there.
KasparsMar 30

Spent the Saturday afternoon exploring ways to add surrogate-key (also known as cache tags) support for Nginx fastcgi cache which is otherwise great with state-while-revalidate support, etc.

Considered creating an Nginx module but there don't appear to be any hookable events when the cache files are written. The idea would be too keep an index of tags mapped to cache files on disk and have a route for invalidating by tags.