I’ve been working since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used , as well as a number of other Qwen variants like across like raw llama.cpp with llama-cpp-python Ollama llamafiles and LM Studio Where are local models now? Early on, models were slow, hard to use, and just not that accurate for most programming tasks. The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the re... Read more ›
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OverviewA long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to mo… Read more ›
About a month ago, I made a note titled "Switching back to Laravel". The idea was to make of my website what I wanted it to be, a place for me to create and collect stuff that I like and that makes me feel things. In that post I was asking about how long I was going to be able to keep up without feeling the need to change it all over and now we have an answer, about a month. And when I wrote that note, I really had the hope of being able to keep my thing going, to make it evolve with me and t... Read more ›
In a stunning turn of events, the US Senate has passed a measure forcing the Trump administration to retain an ocean monitoring system. CC-licensed photo by Oregon State University on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start … → Read more ›
The Blank Canvas Problem When you write new code, you get to define the problem. You choose the data structures, the assumptions, the failure modes you care about. The context lives entirely in your head, fresh and complete. You know what you intended. You know what inputs you tested. You know which edge cases you decided weren’t worth handling. Debugging a production bug strips all of that away. You’re working backward from a symptom to a cause across a system you may not have written, in a ... Read more ›
This article explores the topics and issues that trended in academic libraries over the past two years. It draws on research and initiatives from librarians across the profession, highlighting the challenges libraries face. To focus on the most pressing current trends, topics that have been covered in previous Top Trends or Environmental Scans are specifically excluded unless new and significant developments warrant review; see the 2024 Top Trends and 2025 Environmental Scan for previous topi... Read more ›
The upcoming iOS 27 update that Apple unveiled last week includes some new features and enhancements for Apple's Notes app on the iPhone. iOS 27 is currently available as a developer beta, with a public beta to follow in July. The update is expected to be released to all users in September. Below, we have outlined four additions to Apple's Notes app on iOS 27. Siri AI On the iPhone 15 Pro and newer, the more intelligent and personal version of Siri known as "Siri AI" can create notes with gen... Read more ›
Copernican reviews Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints which was reprinted in an English translation by Robert Laffont earlier this year: It is time that I throw my own hat into the ring regarding this particular piece of polemic fiction. It’s particularly topical given the recent events in the UK and the Western World. […] Related posts: Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints Paul Johnson on Jean-Jacques Rousseau Karine Jean-Pierre’s “tell-nothing tell-all” memoir of the Biden White House Read more ›
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As a dev I have VS Code open all day anyway. Recently I found out about Foam and moved my note taking there The post appeared first on . Read more ›
A 25-line text file with 13,600 stars makes AI agents write 80 to 94 percent less code. It is the clearest proof yet that the binding constraint in agent coding is no longer capability but a trained-in verbosity the model cannot remove from itself. Read more ›
I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest frie... Read more ›
How we built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall and zero tenant leaks
Discover the architecture behind a persistent, multi-tenant agent memory layer on Elasticsearch: three indices, hybrid retrieval with RRF and a reranker, supersession, decay, and per-user DLS isolation. R@10 0.89 across 168 questions. Full open-source implementation included. Read more ›
A hand-picked directory of website submission sites. Find the best places to submit your website, startup, or product, earn quality backlinks, and rank higher across search engines and AI answers. Read more ›
Original research from 2,000 decision-makers and consumers on AI brand visibility, content trust, and what brands need to do as the web feels less human. 74% say the internet feels less human than it did 10 years ago. Read more ›
I'm the developer of Trace, a non-intrusive, shortcut-driven Mac app that records and transcribes your meetings on-device. I know, another meeting transcription app. Please bear with me though, I'm confident that this is at least a little novel. Read more ›
With the rise of AI Agent workflows, many developers this year have started letting AI handle the summarizing and highlight-picking, absorbing WWDC announcements at a much faster pace. Apple has been accommodating too — releasing all Sessions, transcripts, and sample code at once, making it even easier for AI to process everything. Read more ›
Andreas Krennmair has a new book out focusing on ‘Bavarian white beer’, AKA Hefeweizen, AKA wheat beer. And it’s reminded us to check in with this intriguing style. Out and about in Bristol’s pubs yesterday one thing that struck us was that German wheat beer is a style that’s become quite mainstream in the UK […] originally posted at Read more ›