Yesterday, Stability.ai finally released their Stable Diffusion model to the public. Having played with NightCafe, Midjourney, and getting access to Dall-E 2, I was excited to be able to run this locally on my own computer. I have a AMD Threadripper 2990WX with an AMD Radeon 6750XT video card. I figured this was plenty powerful enough to get local generation so I didn’t have to pay others when I have plenty of horsepower at home eating up electricity as it is. Read more

Many that conversed with me in the cryptocurrency world know that I am a huge fan and supporter of SONM. After reading their whitepaper, I quickly saw that they had a very adoptable design to their tech. Now, its not purely blockchain. It uses the blockchain to distributed tasks, send messaging, and other things like that, the actual tasks get run on standard compute devices using Docker. So to put it long story short, SONM is a distributed docker runner with blockchain to handle distribution. Read more

Since I feel that the Dart Plugin in IntelliJ is at a point where it can do most, if not all things that the Dart Editor can do. I thought I would show how to setup debugging of Web Applications. Primarily because a certain few on IRC wanted a step-by-step guide because they were too lazy to figure it out (you know who you are….. Don). Seeing how I have been Evangelizing IntelliJ/Webstorm on IRC, I decided to just help out the community with this mini-guide. To save on typing IntelliJ/Webstorm everywhere, I am going to us IW as a short for refering to both. I will be using Spectre as my test project, because I do not have any of my own personal projects that are Web Apps, I mostly do backend stuff. Plus this also shows that this can handle large complex applications. Read more

Disclaimer: After reading through this a few times, I realized my train of thought jumps around a lot on this. There is just so much going on in my head on this topic, its hard to not jump around. I apologize for the all over the place article. Hopefully my point is still conveyed. Update: I just want to clarify that when I refer to JVM/CLR I include their primary language and their standard libraries. Read more

This is an opinion and a rant based on my opinion and observations, you have been warned. As a programmer, I see this a lot. People so engrossed in their language that they don’t see its problems or shortcomings, and in turn think every other language, new or old, is bad and will never match up. I sit in a lot of programming language channels on Freenode, and the way I see people defend their language of choice or completely dismiss other languages is baffling. Read more