Toa Heavy Industry

A Technical Malaise

Ralph Wiggum testing

So, with all the fuss about Ralph Wiggum loop I thought I would give it a try but I was also trying to run some smaller LLM on very old hardware and a NVIDIA 1050 ti card. Yeah, old stuff. While not speedy I was able to get ollama and deep seek 6.7B running. I use Claude for a lot of small functional script in bash and python. Usually just small infrastructure processes and not very complex. However, I got a simple Ralph Wiggum loop (RWL) from Claude to prompt ollama to generate a CSV with some sample data, process the various columns and try to correct things like phone formatting, states abbrieviation and such. Very basic stuff. The thing I like was that I was using Claude Code to monitor and tweak the orchestration script while the local ollama developed the code. ...

January 24, 2026 · Matt

Uncomfortable Convenience

Review I recently received the Furi Labs FLX1s Linux phone. This is presently the most usable Linux Mobile phone on the market. I used it for a week and I’m documenting my overall thoughts about it here. I haven’t done any extensive testing but I did change some services around in regard to my stack to make it as effective as I could and used it as much as possible. I’m still using it but not with my sim in it. ...

January 14, 2026 · Matt

The Slow Bullet

A gun fires in the distance. When I was young I read a lot and didn’t get out too much. It was a lot of sci-fi and fantasy. I feel reading this content, in part anyway, gave me a general positive sense of the future. I wasn’t conscious of this connection or that I was being influenced this way. It was just an assumption that humanity, in general, was headed to a better future. Maybe an amazing future and if I was lucky I might see some of it. ...

January 13, 2026 · Matt