I've never heard a song so packed with ultra geeky science and programming references. AI Music and video production have problematic effects. And they are also opening a world of art to niches, interests, individuals that couldn't afford to be expressed or experienced in art like this before.
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Local LLM benchmark: 7 model/host combos, 3 passes each, one agentic task
Seven local model/host combinations on an M5 Max with 128 GB, three passes each on the same agentic coding task, averaged: prefill, decode, memory, MTP acceptance, cache hit rate and…
How to use custom UI with Jetpack’s newsletter signup
You can replace Jetpack’s newsletter signup UI — the Subscribe block or the popup — with your own form, and keep driving the exact same…
Qwen Flash Preview is exciting
I’m lucky enough to have an M5 Max MacBook with 128gb of Ram, and I’ve been spending a lot of sweat this summer trying to…
The GreenPT Cache Problem Fixed Itself
A month ago I published a post about burning €11 in 18 minutes on GreenPT. The session logged 10 million input tokens with zero cache…
€11 for 18 Minutes: My GreenPT Experiment Hit 10M Input Tokens
I’ve been trying to figure out how to make my AI usage less damaging to the environment. Most of my experiments so far have been…
The Two-Model UX Review: Stop UI From Sucking (on a Budget)
I’m building a side project — an offline-first PWA called Starchive where teams track appreciation with stars and hearts. Stars are admin-given points (gold, cashable).…
Giving command-tab a break
The other day while waiting for Claude to process prompts, I watched this video: (I know, the irony isn’t lost on me) It highlights the…
Watch out for Hades
According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: [Link] Looks like it’s marked at this time by: If you find…
We’re zooming out a step
I’m slowly watching, feeling out the shape of this wave that we’re all riding together. I’m sensing an order-of-magnitude zoom-out when it comes to the…
Professional Existential Dread
Yesterday, like many of you, I read about Jack Dorsey announcing the end of employment for 4,000 people at Blocks after a strong year of…
