Building a Distributed GPU Cluster for LLM Inference on Idle Apple Silicon Macs
A single M2 Max Mac Studio can serve 8‑token‑per‑second Llama‑2‑7B inference, yet most developers leave that compute idle overnight. ## Inventory an…
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Godot Movie Maker and screenshots on macOS without --headless
I wanted Godot to write screenshots and short videos from a script on my Mac, the way it does in CI on Linux. Godot 4.7.1 on macOS 26.5.2 can't do i…
ulimit doesn't cap memory on macOS: stop a job before it swaps
On Linux a job's memory can be capped with ulimit -v , systemd-run -p MemoryMax= or a cgroup, and a job that grows too big fails on its own instead…
I run Claude Code with permission prompts off, so I put it in a VM
I use Claude Code every day, and I run it with permission prompts off. It's much faster that way. You give it a task, go do something else, and come…
Azure Pipelines' GitHub-hosted agents go GA, and your pool label now spends money
Picture a pull request that changes one line of azure-pipelines.yml . The build logic is untouched; only the vmImage value moves from a stock label…
Why Your Mac App Keeps Running After You Close the Window (and How I Fixed It)
If you came from Windows, you've probably noticed this: you click the red close button, the window disappears, but the app is still running . There'…
RKE2/K3s on macOS + Apple Containers
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Ubuntu Cloud Images on a Mac: Why the Disk Is 3.5 GB, Why You Can't Log In, and How to Fix Both
Ubuntu's cloud images are the quickest way to a Linux VM I know. There's no installer to click through, the download is under 1 GB, and they boot in…
We shipped Spare for Mac: describe a plugin in one sentence and it gets built and installed
Hi DEV, we're a small team in Montreal, and we just shipped Spare for Mac : a desktop app where you describe a little tool or toy in one sentence, a…
Run a Local GUI Agent on Your Mac in 10 Minutes with Mano-P and Cider
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fs.cpSync copied the framework and left every symlink pointing at the cache
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LLM Quantization Explained for Mac Users
The RAM math post treats quantization as an input — "4-bit is roughly 0.5 bytes per parameter" — and moves on, on purpose. This is what's actually b…
My battery kept dying at coffee shops, so I built Junction
I usually build stuff sitting in coffee shops. I just get way more locked in when I'm out of the house than at home. So this isn't some rare thing,…
agent-usage NEW8: agents can torch a 5-hour window with no estimate
Agents that spawn agents can torch a 5-hour window with no estimate and no confirm. agent-usage keeps a local honest dashboard — by agent, billing d…
Six things about WKWebView the docs don't tell you
I have spent the last few months building a browser on WKWebView. Not a wrapper around a single web view — a real one, with tabs, separate cookie ja…
Wi-Fi Was Dead for 5 Hours While Chrome Kept Working: 4,960 DNS Failures and the 5-Minute Probe That Catches Them
Last time I wrote about how many jobs you should re-run the moment your quota comes back . This post goes back a few days earlier, to a quieter and…
agent-usage 0.10.0: charts by agent, billing domain, and model
agent-usage 0.10.0 is live on npm — a local multi-agent usage dashboard with charts split by agent / billing domain / model . Honest local dashboard…
SSH Tunnel Manager in Rust: CLI vs Native GUI Trade-offs
🔧 The Problem A few weeks ago a Swift-based macOS SSH tunnel manager started making the rounds here — a menu bar app that lets you spin up local/rem…
4 Ways a 'Retired' launchd Job Kept Running on a 160+ Job Fleet — and the 3 Commands That Actually Stop It
I run more than 160 launchd jobs on a Mac that almost never reboots. That fleet is what carried me from a ¥100k/month student side gig to ¥600k jugg…
Real Bot: persistent AI teammates on your Mac (local multi-bot · MIT · BYO)
Not affiliated with xAI or Grok. I built Real Bot for local multi-bot teammates on your Mac — named bots with duties, groups, @ mentions and handoff…
Putting Apple's Virtualization framework under a Flutter app
I maintain WSL Manager , a Flutter desktop app from 2021 that saves you from typing wsl.exe flags. Version 2 runs the same app on Apple silicon, whe…
Zero-Tax Virtualization: Running AI Agents Safely in Velo Workspaces
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Brewwery a native macOS GUI for Homebrew
Homebrew is usually one of the first tools I install on a new Mac. Its command-line interface is fast, reliable, and familiar. But over time, a Home…
UsageNow Tracks OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Gemini and Antigravity Usage from Your Mac Menu Bar
I rarely use just one AI coding tool anymore. Codex may be working on one task, Claude Code on another, Gemini CLI is useful for a different workflo…
A Scheduled Job That Works and Never Runs
I have a job that publishes one article a day. Over four days I rebuilt its scheduling three times, and each rebuild fixed a real failure that the p…
Two translation layers and a TPM you have to fake: Windows on Apple Silicon
Disclosure up front: I build Kyvenza , a paid VM manager for Apple Silicon. This post is about the platform constraints, not a pitch — I'll be speci…
macOS 27: new Siri takes on AI productivity apps
macOS 27 Goldgen Gate gets a new Spotlight Search with Siri integrated
Never Name a zsh Loop Variable path: Three Deploy-Verification Traps That Looked Like Outages
In one day of post-deploy verification I hit three failures that all looked like "production is broken" and none of which were: zsh's tied path arra…
Undefined type Float8_e4m3fn on Apple Silicon: BF16 and GGUF Workarounds for FP8 Models
Two FP8 image models crashed with Undefined type Float8_e4m3fn on an Apple Silicon Mac, and each needed a different fix — a BF16 swap for one, a GGU…
Build in the VM, Think on the Mac GPU: Debian 13 on Apple container With a Local Gemma 4
This article walks through building a Debian 13 machine under Apple's container CLI on an Apple silicon Mac, and then wiring that machine to a local…