August 18, 2026
Qwen3.8-27B on an M4 Pro
Throughput, memory and benchmark scores for Qwen3.8-27B at 4-bit on a 48 GB MacBook Pro, and the generation cap that was setting most of the accuracy numbers.
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August 18, 2026
Throughput, memory and benchmark scores for Qwen3.8-27B at 4-bit on a 48 GB MacBook Pro, and the generation cap that was setting most of the accuracy numbers.
Read articleAugust 18, 2026
Unlocks with Philosophy
The doctrine of karma set out school by school: ritual potency, subtle matter, intention, seeds, an unseen quality of the self, and the deposit that ripens as birth, lifespan and experience.
Read articleJuly 26, 2026
Delayed gratification is treated as a cause of good outcomes. The research points the other way: delayed gratification appears to be downstream from stable wellbeing.
Read articleJuly 15, 2026
The instruction files I use to make Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol delegate execution to cheaper subagent models: the tiering rules, the executor definitions, and the briefing format.
Read articleJune 18, 2026
Anthropic's July 2026 privacy policy describes a Claude product where chats, code sessions, integrations, safety review, training, and legal demands all touch the same data flow.
Read articleJune 12, 2026
An interactive reading of Japan's Family Income and Expenditure Survey, 2007-2024: where the monthly budget goes, the rise of the Engel coefficient, and what workers' households keep.
Read articleMay 30, 2026
Every scaled system carries ongoing costs in infrastructure, operations, coordination, and debugging. A calm architecture is one that keeps those costs in plain view.
Read articleMay 29, 2026
A safe deploy has a scope, a rollout plan, health signals, rollback criteria, and database changes that work across versions.
Read articleMay 29, 2026
Four places where human energy still compounds in a world full of capable machines, consciousness, the body, relationship, and the ground where the map runs out.
Read articleMay 28, 2026
Structured logs turn operational facts into queryable records. The shape, volume, retention, and identifiers matter as much as the messages.
Read articleMay 22, 2026
A network call adds timeout, retry, partial failure, and reconciliation work. Treat each call as a boundary with a contract.
Read articleMay 21, 2026
Strong consistency serves the paths where correctness depends on one current answer. Bounded lag serves the product paths where the promise is explicit.
Read articleMay 20, 2026
Caches make reads fast by letting the system be wrong in controlled ways. Keys, TTLs, invalidation, and stampede protection explored.
Read articleMay 19, 2026
Rate limits, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and the controls that keep APIs available under pressure.
Read articleMay 18, 2026
How data enters your system quietly decides latency, durability, retries, consistency, and every read model that follows.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
The schema, indexes, and read model quietly decide how much work each request creates. Shape the work, and the database follows.
Read articleMay 11, 2026
Quantitative analysis and arithmetic as the foundation for scaling decisions and architectural choices.
Read articleMay 11, 2026
Extending the blog's component surface with interactive quizzes that still feel like markdown to write.
Read articleApril 21, 2026
I looked into GameSir's GameHub emulator and found device fingerprinting, servers in China, a Windows installer that raised corruption concerns, and enough tracking to spawn a privacy-focused fork.
Read articleApril 21, 2026
An interactive look at Kyoto's peak cherry blossom record, the extreme modern shift toward earlier bloom dates, and why this may be the cleanest seasonal climate archive humanity has.
Read articleApril 17, 2026
Anthropic is pitching better long-running coding and vision. Hacker News readership comment about consistency, token burn, and whether Claude still feels reliable from one week to the next.
Read articleApril 7, 2026
I read through Apple's end-user license agreement and found a $250 liability cap, silent system updates you can't disable, and an AI disclaimer that shifts all responsibility to you.
Read articleMarch 31, 2026
How I added a static MDX blog to this repo without giving up predictable builds or lightweight writing.
Read articleMarch 26, 2026
A small rendering checklist for keeping GPU demos responsive without flattening the visual style.
Read articleMarch 15, 2026
How I kept a WASM-heavy demo compatible with Next.js static export and GitHub Pages.
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