architecture
A Quarter of the Card Is Not a Quarter of the Capacity
Passthrough, time-sliced vGPU and MIG do different things to the thing that actually limits you. And fractional slices don't divide capacity the way the spreadsheet says.
architecture
Your GPU Is Not Slow, It Is Waiting for Memory
Inference behaves like two workloads with opposite requirements, sharing the same silicon. Once you see that, the strange utilisation numbers start making sense.
architecture
Tenancy Design
Of all the decisions in a VCF build, tenancy is the one made worst. Not because it's hard, but because of when it gets made.
Deen
Ramadan and Fasting in Australia
The same rules as my parents' Ramadan, in very different circumstances: what the Qur'an says, what breaks a fast in each school, why Sydney mosques start on different days, and the likely 2027 dates.
Deen
Prayer (ṣalāh): How and Why
What actually happens on the prayer mat, five times a day: the words, what they mean, the times in Sydney, and where the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī, Ḥanbalī and Jaʿfarī schools do it differently.
Deen
Belief in God, the Prophets and the Unseen
Every Muslim creed starts with one God, unlike anything. The arguments begin after that: His hand and Throne, seeing Him, the created Qur'an, free will. Five schools of theology, set side by side.
Deen
The Five Pillars and the Six Articles of Faith
Where the five pillars and six articles of faith actually come from: one conversation in the mosque at Medina, set beside the Twelver roots and branches.
Deen
The Sunna in Daily Life
How the Prophet greeted people, ate, slept, dressed and spoke, habit by habit, with every report linked and graded, and the famous sayings that turn out to have no reliable chain.
Deen
Halal Food in Australia
What the Qur'an forbids, how slaughter works, where the five schools differ on stunning, seafood, gelatine and alcohol, and what a halal logo on an Australian product does and does not tell you.
Deen
Sufism: Origins, Orders and Critiques
What Sufism is, where it came from and how the orders work, from al-Junayd and al-Ghazālī to Konya, Ajmer and Broken Hill, with the critiques from Ibn Taymiyya to the Salafis and the Sufi replies.
Deen
Women in Islam: Texts and Interpretations
The verses and hadith every argument about women in Islam comes back to, read three ways: by the classical commentators, by traditional scholars today, and by reformist scholars. Sources for each.
Deen
Death, the Grave and the Afterlife
What the Qur'an and the sound hadith say about dying, the grave, the Day and the Garden and Fire, and what a family actually does, from the bedside to burial in NSW and Victoria.