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I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And…
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
A blog by James Adam, of lazyatom.com fame.
"System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Output to constrain the output to guaranteed valid JSON. While model prefills the input in one pass,
How I built a queryable video archive locally on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max using Gemma 4 31B in LM Studio. The build journey, the absurdity of 50GB of swap, and four bugs that taught real lessons.
The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch.
The Leica G9ii
Everything looks like Emacs now: personal, complicated, idiosyncratic, and shrink-wrapped around exactly what you want it to do. Does shipping software even make sense in the long run?
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email natively from your agents.
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Why I believe the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a better architectural pattern than the emerging “Skills” trend for LLM tool integration.
In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.
Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so …
Customize the look and feel of tmux
Lawyers should be able to read a statute as it stood on any date and see which law wrote each phrase. A history of nine titles of the US Code, built by replaying every amendment, as the example.
For many years VSCode has been my day-to-day IDE for everything: Python, Go, C, occasional frontend development, and what not. It was never...
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.
A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns the Anthropic team actually uses.
I’m going to make a bold claim: MCP is already dying. We may not fully realize it yet, but the signs are there. OpenClaw doesn’t support it. Pi doesn’t support it. And for good reason.
Android TV is full of ads, even in apps-only mode. Here's how I replaced the launcher, YouTube, and the remote's buttons to get rid of them.
One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing: Introducing Seedance 2.5
It's time to stop drawing user interfaces with punctuation characters. Native UI is a completely solved problem.
PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes
Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback. DHH’s Omarchy is made of three types of user interfaces: TUIs, for immediate feedback and bonus geek poi…
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
