Note: I initially drafted this before my last post on how Claude Code is getting worse. I’m putting it out now so I can reference it in a future post on OpenCode. As you can imagine my opinion on Claude … Read more
Table of Contents If you only use social media and video hosting frontends – getting fed by algorithms and visiting the same 5 sites everyday on constant doomscroll, then the internet has never been alive for you. That experience is … Read more
Ollama is the most popular way to run local LLMs. It shouldn’t be. It gained that position by being first, the first tool that made llama.cpp accessible to people who didn’t want to compile C++ or write their own server … Read more
I still use it and find it helpful. My OpenClaw instance uses an Obsidian project as its memory. Mainly, it’s just my main day-to-day LLM that I access via WhatsApp, but instead of the memory being locked away with a … Read more
Using calculus to do number theory ← back February 2, 2026 Calculus is the mathematics of approximations of continuous quantities; number theory asks exact problems about discrete quantities. These seem, therefore, to be unrelated studies. Yet Kurt Hensel made a … Read more
Dear web designers: Please, for the love of Glob, stop using grey text. And especially do not use grey text on an off-white background. It doesn’t make you look more “design-ey”, it makes you look inept. Why‽ Why use grey … Read more
FreeBSD 15 comes with a new bridging implementation which has native support for VLANs. They have also soft-deprecated the ability to have any layer 3 addresses on member interfaces which makes it behave like a real hardware switch. The net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs … Read more
One of my core software engineering practices is writing, by hand, in a physical notebook. It’s one of the most important things I do to remain productive and effective. Maybe the single most important. And it’s a practice that I … Read more
An interesting anecdote from this month’s Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve’s Steam Deck… On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually … Read more
It’s probably fine–unless you care about self-improvement or taking pride in your work. To be clear, when I write “using AI generated code” in this opinion, I’m referring to letting an AI write code for you–I’m not addressing the use … Read more