Why closing your MacBook lid does not turn off the mini-LED screen (and how to fix it)
If you own an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro or Air (M1, M2, M3, or M4), you might have noticed something strange when running long tasks with the lid cl…
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EAGLE-4 does not run on a Mac. I measured MTP instead: +92% on one model, -19% on another
A release announcement for EAGLE-4, a speculative decoding method, reported up to 3.4x faster generation for Qwen3.8-27B on four NVIDIA B300 GPUs. I…
How Claude Code and Codex tell you your limits (and why counting tokens doesn't work)
I use Claude Code and Codex every day. Both can tell you where you stand on your limits: /usage in Claude Code, /status in Codex. But when I'm in th…
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…
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
This project covers both RKE2 and K3s on macOS with Apple's container project as the runtime for each of the processes. rke2-silicon runs a single K…
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
What This Guide Covers Mano-P is an open-source GUI agent that sees your screen, reasons about what to do next, and executes real macOS actions: cli…
fs.cpSync copied the framework and left every symlink pointing at the cache
Notifio is a desktop app that watches rental search pages and tells you the moment something new appears. It drives a Playwright-managed Chromium in…
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
1. Introduction: The Security vs. Performance Dilemma Running autonomous AI coding agents natively on your primary macOS machine introduces severe s…
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