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...
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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.
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Random things I use chatgpt for this week:
Checking kernel hardware support, known driver issues, validating FB market deals are a good value, checking driver support status for handheld PCs, Kodi folder layout, shoe brand suggestions, recipes, plant care instructions. #chatgpt #randomstuff
Checking kernel hardware support, known driver issues, validating FB market deals are a good value, checking driver support status for handheld PCs, Kodi folder layout, shoe brand suggestions, recipes, plant care instructions. #chatgpt #randomstuff
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Random things I use chatgpt for this week:
Checking kernel hardware support, known driver issues, validating FB market deals are a good value, checking driver support status for handheld PCs, Kodi folder layout, shoe brand suggestions, recipes, plant care instructions. #chatgpt #randomstuff
Checking kernel hardware support, known driver issues, validating FB market deals are a good value, checking driver support status for handheld PCs, Kodi folder layout, shoe brand suggestions, recipes, plant care instructions. #chatgpt #randomstuff
Chatgpt 4.x could come up with amazing recipes but the proportions would be wrong. GPT 5 has amazing recipe suggestions and bang on ingredient proportions. You can even feed it existing recipes and ask it to check the ratios of ingredients to make fixes. These are the improvements no one mentions.
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Chatgpt 4.x could come up with amazing recipes but the proportions would be wrong. GPT 5 has amazing recipe suggestions and bang on ingredient proportions. You can even feed it existing recipes and ask it to check the ratios of ingredients to make fixes. These are the improvements no one mentions.
Why aren't there a bunch of board games friends can sit around and play on smart TVs? I have an android phone, an android smart TV, but the ecosystem just doesn't exist.
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why aren't there a bunch of board games friends can sit around and play on smart TVs? I have an android phone, an android smart TV, but the ecosystem just doesn't exist.
Don't A/B test ads with your paying customers as the guinea pigs... #wtf #thisshouldbeobvious
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Don't A/B test ads with your paying customers as the guinea pigs... #wtf #thisshouldbeobvious
Verbify verbifies verb.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Verbify verbifies verb.
Everytime someone outside the AI field says AI has no profitable uses I think of the dozen+ profitable AI companies I've talked with who have build solid businesses on tech that didn't exist 5 years ago.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Everytime someone outside the AI field says AI has no profitable uses I think of the dozen+ profitable AI companies I've talked with who have build solid businesses on tech that didn't exist 5 years ago.
I know it is too late for this PSA but - Make your own eggnog. It is orders of magnitudes better than store bought. The raw eggs won't kill you. It tastes amazing.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I know it is too late for this PSA but - Make your own eggnog. It is orders of magnitudes better than store bought. The raw eggs won't kill you. It tastes amazing.
capriBlue Apple Cider Social is flat out the best holiday candle. One small candle on my mantle makes my entire house smell great, no black smoke, and one tiny candle lasts all season.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
capriBlue Apple Cider Social is flat out the best holiday candle. One small candle on my mantle makes my entire house smell great, no black smoke, and one tiny candle lasts all season.
Booted up Batocera on my Intel Mac mini. After boot it started playing loud music, WTF. Went into Kodi, I had forgotten to setup wifi, so I exited Kodi. The entire system locked up. #linuxdesktop
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Booted up Batocera on my Intel Mac mini. After boot it started playing loud music, WTF. Went into Kodi, I had forgotten to setup wifi, so I exited Kodi. The entire system locked up. #linuxdesktop
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
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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?