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The RazorLite EDC Is a Pocket Knife for People Who Don’t Want to Sharpen Blades

A good pocket knife eventually creates another job: keeping it sharp. Cutting cardboard, opening packages, working around camp, and processing game gradually wear down an edge, and restoring it means having sharpening equipment and knowing how to use it. If…

The RazorLite EDC Is a Pocket Knife for People Who Don’t Want to Sharpen Blades

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Homelab census: 41 containers, one 6 GB GPU, and where my AI agents run

Today I asked my LLM box what it was doing, and it told me it had a 27-billion-parameter model loaded. Total footprint 18.3 GB. Amount of that on the graphics card: 0.5 GB.

  • 41 Docker and LXC containers running across four homelab boxes
  • One 6 GB VRAM GPU determines AI task routing
  • i7-10875H system with 6 GB GPU hosts AI agents

How I turned Docker incidents into game levels (with postmortems)

Every tutorial teaches you how to start a container. Almost none teach you what to do when one is down at 3am and people are waiting.

  • "DockerLinux" game teaches Linux and Docker troubleshooting in simulated server environment.
  • Game runs in browser, replaying solutions against fresh broken servers to verify fixes.

Premultiplied alpha didn't remove my cutout's white fringe

A background-removed PNG dropped onto a dark page often shows a thin grey-white rim. The usual advice is to composite with premultiplied alpha.

  • Premultiplied alpha didn't remove white fringe around cutout
  • White fringe appeared as luminance of 75.4 on test cutout
  • Fringe fixed by changing data to separate subject color from mix

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