Alasdair Allan
@alasdairallan.com
Scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. Writes, speaks, and builds. An accidental privacy advocate.
Nobody will ever have nostalgia for the nGage.
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Nobody will ever have nostalgia for the nGage.
Yes. Entirely normal to grieve its loss, even as it comes into the world... and congratulations.
July 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Yes. Entirely normal to grieve its loss, even as it comes into the world... and congratulations.
Flash generally won’t start to loose synchronisation till you push past 260 to 270MHz.
February 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Flash generally won’t start to loose synchronisation till you push past 260 to 270MHz.
Should just be a rebuild of the MicroPython binary with SYS_CLK_MHZ=200 set shouldn't it?
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Should just be a rebuild of the MicroPython binary with SYS_CLK_MHZ=200 set shouldn't it?
Released into the wild in April last year, the Humane AI Pin, that's a $699 device, is dead less than a year after launch. Although the reality is that it's really been dead for six months or more. www.hackster.io/news/the-dea...
The Death of a Salesman
Have products like the Humane AI Pin or Rabbit R1 failed? Or are they the next underlying model around which our computing will be built?
www.hackster.io
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Released into the wild in April last year, the Humane AI Pin, that's a $699 device, is dead less than a year after launch. Although the reality is that it's really been dead for six months or more. www.hackster.io/news/the-dea...
So I'm unsurprised by the news that we're now seeing a drop in average CPU performance after 20 years of increasing benchmark results. Most people don't need more performance, and manufacturers know it. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results
After the MHz and multi-core wars, performance drops.
www.tomshardware.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So I'm unsurprised by the news that we're now seeing a drop in average CPU performance after 20 years of increasing benchmark results. Most people don't need more performance, and manufacturers know it. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Currently about 2,000 words into a piece putting the return of the Pebble into some sort of context. While I've always had a soft spot for Pebble, it's an interesting move with some real potential to disrupt the market.
January 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Currently about 2,000 words into a piece putting the return of the Pebble into some sort of context. While I've always had a soft spot for Pebble, it's an interesting move with some real potential to disrupt the market.
Was it though? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282...
CEO of Scale said Deepseek is lying and actually has a 50k GPU cluster. He said ... | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Was it though? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282...