New Post: Are my GPUs being used? markjgsmith.com #
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them - Some interesting context about environment variables, what they are, how the operating system implements them, and a comparison of how they are accessed in Bash, Python and C. They do feel a bit antiquated, but central to everything. allvpv.org #
AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui - "A web interface for Stable Diffusion, implemented using Gradio library." - It’s one of the UIs supported by Open WebUI to do image generation. Totally not obvious how you would get this working in Docker with vulkan, or if it’s even possible. github.com #
comfyanonymous/ComfyUI - The other image gen app supported in Open WebUI. I watched a tutorial on this which was pretty interesting, but ultimately seems like it wouldn’t work in containers with vulkan. github.com #
FluidInference/fluidtop - Installed this today, works great to view your realtime CPU and GPU utilization. github.com #
Apple unveils new 14‑inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip, delivering the next big leap in AI for the Mac - Given that Apple never stops banging on about how incredibly super awesome their machines are at all things AI/LLM, it’s really very disapointing to discover that actually it only really is super awesome if you install the AI/LLMs super dangerously. apple.com #