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  • Go Rogue. Why Not?
    Going rogue doesn’t require breaking a single law. A case for exiting, competing, and documenting while the tools are still subsidized.
  • Chip components
    Build Your Own Faulty Compiler
    Build an agentic coding harness around a small local model and you find out where the capability lives: in the harness, the checks, and the reruns.
  • The Faulty Compiler
    Engineering has always worked with error that is bounded and specified. Today’s AI arrives without a spec sheet, and real decisions are being made in that gap.
  • Nine Polaroid frames in a row; eight are blank and greyed with labels like no match, expired, stale and duplicate, while one is lit and marked CONFIRMED. Caption: 9 frames, 1 confirmed match, every other one discarded.
    AI: Memento at the Keyboard
    Leonard keeps his memories on Polaroids and tattoos, and is steered by whoever controls his inputs. That is not a bad description of a production LLM pipeline — and it is why the harness matters more than the model.
  • Two overlapping wine-glass rings in deep red on black, labelled $400 and $89, beneath the title AI: Missing the Point.
    AI: Missing the Point
    A board member asked me how long until 11% unemployment. I answered the question I was asked — and that was the mistake. The timeline is not being set by what AI can do. It is being set by what capital decides to do.
  • AI: The Opportunity for Small Business
    AI is not just another tool — it’s the first time small businesses can build systems that work the way they think. But navigating it correctly matters. Here’s how Onyx Research and Engineering can help.
  • THE AI APOCALYPSE
    AI isn’t coming — it’s here. A breakdown of the five biggest players reshaping the game, the agent revolution, and how Onyx helps small businesses put it all to work.
  • OnyxCam Prototypes
    ONYXCAM
    I always wanted an extensible platform for prototyping my machine vision tests and a potential hardware product for tracking and volumetric capture. Here are my first three devices! The housings of the first three prototypes are printed 3 part PLA with an aluminum heatsink. You can see from the video above a simple flyout of… Read more: ONYXCAM
  • Rainbow
    SIMPLE SITE GUIDANCE FOR A SMALL BUSINESS
    More than likely you’re not in the business of design and that’s just fine. That being said, you should at least consider a few things regarding your business’ website and make sure whomever you’ve engaged to make or maintain your site is making good choices for your visitors. Here’s a quick checklist of the most… Read more: SIMPLE SITE GUIDANCE FOR A SMALL BUSINESS
  • PASSPORT DEV SETUP
    I’ve been on a bit of a Node.js kick lately. It scales well and is supported on every platform I’ve come across (Embedded, Cloud, and Server). Starting my new business app I decided to move from Django to Node.js for the project so I can leverage Google’s AppEngine platform. All of this is going smoothly… Read more: PASSPORT DEV SETUP
  • BUILDROOT SMOKE TEST
    Buildroot is simply my favorite step forward from the dark days of cross-compiling and bootstrapping in the blind. There are plenty of great resources out there that cover buildroot and initial configuration. Personally I’ve enjoyed George Hillard’s four-part series: Mastering Embedded Linux. I’m working on some lowcost image cameras for my own MR/XR/CV purposes, so… Read more: BUILDROOT SMOKE TEST
  • Onyx Research and Engineering banner for the post WP and Permalinks, dark background with gold lettering.
    WP and Permalinks
    Once in a great while when upgrading a site or when an administrator gets overly ambitions one way or the other a site’s permalinks break if they are switched from default. Googling this issue will yield a wild array of “fixes”, I’m a big fan of actually understanding and not incantations. So, I thought I’d… Read more: WP and Permalinks