Windows

Making Powershell more Bash-like

I realize powershell is its own thing and I’m not trying to turn it into Bash. But I work on windows, mac and linux machines throughout my day and often end up typing in bash commands into powershell to get the dreaded error message: Then have to translate it into something that works for powershell. To be fair, I am really happy [...]



Helpful Mac CLI Settings

Mac tries to be the os where everything just works, but there are actually a lot of really powerful and useful settings that do not appear anywhere in the UI. This is a growing list of the hidden options that I use. Show hidden files Open finder to a folder Press Command + Shift + . (period key) Avoid creating .DS_Store files [...]




AI

InvokeAI GPU Memory Usage

InvokeAI is a powerful tool to run Generative AI like Stable Diffusion easily on your own machine if you have a dedicated GPU. How much GPU memory do you need? All of these results were with a Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti with 8GB, with a target of 50 iterations. 512×512 = 3.5GB in 7s1024×1024 = 5.4GB in 35s1280×768 = 5.4GB in [...]




Networking

WIFI Signal Degrades More Than You Think


Node-RED

Using Node-Red to send commands to Wifi LED Controllers