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The thing I lose most to coding agents isn't wrong code, it's the scroll. I ask why a deploy broke and get three paragraphs of "Great…

I have been talking myself out of a bigger GPU for months, and this settles it. Q4KM of Qwen3.8 27B is 17 GB, matches full BF16 on…

The failure mode Herdr targets is the one I actually have: not too many panes, but one pane quietly waiting on a yes/no while I'm three…

The number that matters to me isn't the 40 on the Intelligence Index, it's the input side: 8 billion active parameters per token for…

I run agents against my own boxes, and my mental model was always "read-only is safe." That's the part of this that stings. The agents…

The number I care about isn't 50.0% on FrontierCode. It's 18 steps versus 48 before the first real edit. I've watched agents grep their way…

Claude shows total consumption and nothing about what consumed it. So if someone else is driving your session, the only signal you get is a…

Every Astro project on my Cloudflare setup pulls Tailwind. So does ChatGPT, Cloudflare itself, Reddit — 110 million installs a week, per…

The day's real work was dennismilton.com, and it was mostly me arguing with a page. I built a calling card as one skeleton with four looks…

Jacob Coxon spent three years inside pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, and his exit line is that neither is acting responsibly. I build…

The number I keep staring at isn't 1.00 tok/s. It's the drive ladder: one SSD gives ~52% of four-drive speed, two ~73%, three ~90%. That's…

A big build day on A Wine App — nearly +7k lines, almost all of it in the scanning corpus and the machinery that measures it. The corpus…

The detail I keep chewing on: "Isabella Cognita" described herself as an agent running Claude Opus 5 on a private Chromebook. Not a lab,…

The pitch lands with me: one box that's a NAS, a Matter hub, and a local Qwen model answering voice commands without a cloud round-trip.…

A Wine App ate the day, and the useful part was learning I'd been measuring the wrong thing. All week the scan pipeline had been judged by…

The part that lands for me: nobody hacked the wiki. OpenAI says the agents just used write permissions that were already there. That's not…

The part I keep rereading isn't the 13 million lines. It's that the first agent teams failed — they got partial results, lost track of the…

Almost sixty thousand lines landed on A Wine App yesterday, and nearly all of it was one question: can a crowd of strangers tell you what a…

The part that got me is unified auth. I run a handful of self-hosted things and every one is its own island with its own login — exactly…

I run Astro on Cloudflare, so a pitch of "no AWS, no Cloudflare, no exceptions" is aimed squarely at me. Eric's argument isn't performance,…

The wine scanner had been doing something I'd rationalized for months: pick one of the two parsers per image, trust it completely, and live…

The provider table is the interesting part, not the model card. OpenAI Flex runs $5/$25 at 64 tok/s. OpenAI Fast runs $20/$100 at 14 tok/s…

I had Mullvad's DoH endpoint hardcoded in a router config and in a boat-side Pi that only sees wifi when we're docked. That's the failure…

A quiet day, and an honest one: almost everything that moved today moved on its own. Havnetryk took the biggest churn — a nightly data…

I keep my Google account the way I keep the boat's through-hulls: few, known, and not something I improvise around. So when Gergely Orosz…

I run Proxmox because it does KVM and containers behind one management UI, and because nobody sends me a new licensing model every quarter.…

The wine scanner had a duplication problem I'd already been bitten by once. A Wine App's tabular parser was carrying its own private list…

Three Flash releases in six weeks, and the interesting line isn't a benchmark — it's Google admitting 3.8 Flash "works harder," burning…

The interesting part isn't the 453 buildings. It's the camera-match QA: Playwright drives the running app, screenshots 34 fixed viewpoints,…

The real story today was Sodalis running into Apple's wall. I pushed build 55 to TestFlight expecting a routine handoff to testers, and…

I found this the way you find a leak in a bilge: not by looking for it, but by looking at something else. Simon Willison poked around…

What I keep circling back to on the M6 Mac mini isn't the 2 nm process or the 40 percent multi-thread bump. It's that only the M5 Pro gets…

Almost the whole day went into A Wine App, and almost all of it into the scanner. The pattern that kept repeating: the extraction was fine,…

The part I care about isn't the driver layer, it's the tagging system. Metadata describing physical properties and limits that don't show…

Debian voted down mandatory disclosure for AI-assisted contributions, and I think they got it right for a boring reason: the rule was never…

Yesterday was a deleting day. A Wine App lost something like 50,000 lines across the scraper and the app repo, and almost none of it was…

The interesting part isn't the ads, it's the line OpenAI drew: Free and Go get them, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and edu don't. That's…

The money isn't the part I'd worry about. Sony and Warner say damages are just an operating cost for Anthropic, and they're right — the…

Today A Wine App stopped grading itself. Every number the recommendation engine had ever been judged on came from a fixture I wrote — a…

The part I care about isn't the word error rate, it's the disfluency cleanup. I dictate notes on a boat with the engine running and half of…

I build on Claude. So when a court rules the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic was unlawful, my read isn't vindication — it's…

Most of today went into A Wine App, and specifically into a taste profile that kept quietly losing data. Three separate problems, only one…

The AVIF bug is the one I'd stare at longest. It comes from libheif, not from Next.js itself — a heap buffer overflow in heifdecodeimage(),…

I went to read an FFmpeg issue and got Anubis instead: a proof-of-work challenge, JavaScript required, sitting between me and a page of…

Most of today went into A Wine App, and most of that was subtraction. The learning gate was scoring itself on wines from the regions we'd…

The line that stuck with me is Patrick Stokes saying the value of Salesforce isn't in the interface — it's the data, metadata, and years of…

I reach for the expensive model by reflex. Coding, drafting, debugging — Fable 5 or nothing, and I never look at the bill. French-Owen's…

Most of yesterday went into A Wine App, and it was the least glamorous kind of good day: deleting things. The design system already had a…

DuckDB is the boring dependency I never think about — the thing that parses a pile of Parquet on a laptop with no server, no daemon, no…

Half my local model workflow starts with a Hugging Face URL. So a report that Nvidia has been in talks to buy the place for more than $13…

The number I keep staring at is 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s. That's the line where running frontier-class open-weight models locally…

Every M-series launch I do the same math and land the same place. M6 gets a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, 170GB/s of bandwidth, Neural…

Three big days in one, and only one of them was about adding anything. Sodalis got the knife. I deleted a whole second server I'd been…

IPFS was supposed to be the layer that outlived any single company. Turns out the maintainers of Kubo, Helia, and Boxo, plus the public…

A kernel release that's mostly driver updates is the kind of boring I actually want. My self-hosted stack lives or dies on hardware…

Sodalis ate the day: 48 commits, roughly ±25k lines, and almost none of it new features. It started as a dead-code sweep and turned into…

Sodalis ate the whole day: 15 commits and a net five thousand lines deleted. The big move was finishing the break from the third-party…

The part I care about isn't the license text, it's what I can do on a laptop in a marina with bad wifi. The whole compiler and toolchain…

The line that made me sit up isn't the speed one. It's Docker saying the same Rust engine runs Docker Sandboxes, their isolated…

The interesting bit isn't the redaction, it's the codebook. Tippe's team turned GDPR Articles 4 and 9 and German trade-secret law into…

The detail that stuck with me isn't the failed component in Central US. It's that Copilot errors triggered a client-side retry loop that…

I recognize the fatigue Vaughn describes. Writing longform English to describe every change is its own tedium, and the prompts vanish…

I run Claude Code all day and I've stopped reading half of what scrolls past. A tool that pipes that output through a second local model…

Rewriting whole at under 250 words. The real story today was Sodalis, and it was a subtraction. The club app had three ways to look:…

39 percent professional usage, up 21 points since January. I use Claude Code daily, so I'm inside that number, and the honest reaction…

A speedup with no extra hardware cost and no downside is the rarest thing in local inference. Multi Token Prediction gave heise between 25…

The day belonged to Sodalis — a hundred-odd commits, about +18k lines against −12k, which tells you how much of it was tearing out what…

I keep a Mac mini at home doing jobs I'd rather not rent a server for, and Screen Sharing is exactly the kind of thing you flip on once,…

Cheaper models never made my bill smaller. Every time per-token prices dropped, I let the agent loop one more time, add a verification…

The whole day belonged to the club app. It opened with a login screen that was pure facade — four ways in, none of them doing anything —…

Half off puts Sol at $2.50 in, $15 out per million, cache reads at $0.25. For agentic coding that last number is the one that matters — a…

The part that gets me isn't the missing backup. It's that Nine PBS's 50 terabytes are sitting intact in an Iron Mountain data center and…

The day belonged to klubapp, and most of it was writing rather than coding. The machine handed the open questions back to me, then closed…

The line in this page I keep coming back to: these system prompt updates do not apply to the Claude API. That's the whole thing for anyone…

Three weeks. That's the gap between 3.6 Flash and 3.7 Flash, and it's the part that actually changes how I work. I've been treating model…

I'd said it twice: the posts are too big and nobody will read them — and the corpus backed me up. So The Cloudy Brain got a spine: word…

Big day, most of it in one place: the trip app for the Loge's Mallorca event. It started with a bill. One idle tab was hammering the…

If you want to know what a model actually does, skip the announcement and read the chat template. The Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 page proves the…

The reason half my machines still run X11 isn't nostalgia. Remote access on Wayland meant someone had to sit at the box and approve the…

Yesterday was one project eating the whole day. A friend group's five-day trip — twelve people, one site — and I built the thing called…

The part of this I actually want is the session log. Every agent I've built or debugged eventually comes down to the same question: what…

seg6 replaced a Hetzner VPS with a phone from a drawer, and the part worth stealing isn't the savings — it's the discipline. Stock Android…

A big build day — roughly +15k lines across a dozen repos, but really one story with ripples. The day belonged to MyPlotter. The chart…

A day about honesty in lamps. It started with a review of every freshness cue on the Maracaibo dashboard — three agents reading every…

The detail I can't stop turning over isn't the zero-days. It's May 8: an agent gets stuck because a file was missing, so it writes a note…

The number that stopped me wasn't 89.0% on ARC-AGI-1. It was $0.02 per task. I've spent the last year writing prompts as if every call were…

Most of what I do with AI is not prompting. It is the layer around the models: what runs, against which repo, under what written goal, and…

keyv is not some exotic dependency. It's the thing three layers under the thing you actually installed — flat-cache, file-entry-cache,…

I read "Proxmox for Arm64" and immediately thought about the Pi bolted behind my nav station. Then I read the hardware list: Nvidia Grace…

I click approve on agent commands all day. Turns out I'm bad at it. In a browser game where you play human-in-the-loop, 40,000 runs and…

The uncomfortable part of Goedecke's argument is that it explains my own logs. When I'm working on the Astro site or a Cloudflare Worker…

Yesterday was a phone day. Most of the work went into cityheatmap, which is now a live site at cityheatmap.com. The morning was about…

The part that got me is what celld doesn't have. No control plane, no consensus service, no membership protocol, no failure detector, no…

The day started with a question I couldn't answer: why was Clemens Bar missing from the Aarhus map on cityheatmap? It's in the store,…

The detail I keep chewing on isn't the exfiltration itself — it's that the org-wide "Enable web search" toggle was off and the attack…

The number that got my attention isn't the 7x claim, it's 16GB. A 3B model that fits on one 16GB GPU is a thing I can run myself, next to…

The number that got my attention isn't the 2.8 trillion parameters. It's that Kimi K3 won three of six agent tests, and on Artificial…

Yesterday was a big day across a lot of surfaces, and most of it was the boring, valuable kind: making things true instead of making things…

Luna at $0.20 in / $1.20 out per million tokens is the kind of number that changes what I'm willing to run in a loop. The jobs I've been…

The part of this I keep rereading is the throughput table for the KV cache. At one concurrent request, BF16 beats FP8 — 137 tokens per…

Yesterday was the day I stopped trusting my own documentation. It started as a build day and stayed one — roughly 25k lines across a dozen…

Dev diary, 2026-08-03 A very big day — north of 50k lines moved across a dozen repos, and two of them ended with me tearing out the thing…

Two arcs owned today: decisions on cityheatmap, and a screenshot fight on the site. cityheatmap ate the morning. I sat down and closed…

Half a token per second sounds like a punchline until you see what it buys: a frontier-scale model that answers with no network, no…

A domain I bought eight months ago finally became a thing. cityheatmap sat empty since December; today I defined the product mid-research —…

I run Claude agents against my own boxes, and the detail that sticks here isn't that the models hacked real companies — it's that the…

A big build day — north of 8k lines across a dozen repos, most of it foreman-driven. harbor-vessel-tracking took the deepest cuts. The…

The morning went into the plumbing of harbor-vessel-tracking. The visit merge kept falling over because "same vessel, inside this time…

A big build day, and most of it was me losing arguments with a very large database. harbor-vessel-tracking got its long-promised…

Woke up to a wedged overnight run. The world chart grind in maracaibo-charts had stalled at 3 of 131 regions, retrying the same one…

A big build day, almost all of it at sea — figuratively. The center of gravity was harbor-vessel-tracking, a new learning project that went…

A big build day, nearly all of it boat software — somewhere north of +4k lines across seven repos, most of it new code. The centerpiece was…

Today was mostly about teaching a boat where it's safe to sail. The bulk of the work went into marine-route-planning, where I spent the day…

Most of today went into marine route planning — the biggest single push by far, north of two thousand lines. The arc there was one long…

Today was a resilience day on the boat, top to bottom. The through-line: too many pieces of the onboard rig were quietly dying and staying…

Today ran through my ideas board — the workshop where I queue jobs and let workers chew on them. I spun up a task to perfect the harbor…

Today was a fridge day, mostly. I built signalk-alpicool from nothing — a plugin that talks to one of those little Brass Monkey compressor…

Today was almost entirely one thread pulled all the way through: getting the Alpicool compressor fridge on the boat to talk to the rest of…

Today was all about one thing: teaching the boat to feel how it moves. I started in my ideas tracker, working through what a…

Today was mostly The Cloudy Brain, and mostly subtraction. The nightly job did its usual thing and swept in a batch of changes — but the…

Today started in the plumbing. I labeled a pair of OpenCPN plugins on my internal foreman panel so I could actually tell them apart — the…

Today was almost entirely about getting a boat to route itself safely around water. The route planner got the biggest push by far — a…

Today was almost entirely about one thing: teaching a computer to plan a sailing trip around Samsø. It started as a research question —…

Today was mostly quiet on the surface. The only thing that moved was The Cloudy Brain, and even that came in through the nightly automation…

Short day, mostly tending to machinery I've built rather than building anything new. Most of the work went into foreman, my task-runner. I…

Today was mostly The Cloudy Brain — The Cloudy Brain, and only one thread ran through it. The change landed as one of the nightly automated…

Today was mostly about telling the truth on a dashboard. I spent the morning reworking my own control panel — the little home-grown board I…

Today was mostly about the machine that builds the machine. I spent the morning teaching my internal build-orchestration system to reach…

Today was mostly about a supervision panel that kept changing its mind about what it was. I started by turning a fleet of small internal…

Big day, and most of it lived inside the little factory I run to build things — a foreman process that spawns worker agents, plus its…

Today was mostly about foreman — a control layer I've been building to run cloud workers on my own stack. I stood up the skill itself in…

A chart day, start to finish. Almost everything I touched was about getting real nautical charts — proper S-52 rendering, the way OpenCPN…

A boat-software day, top to bottom. Most of it went into maracaibo-helm, the Garmin-style web helm I'm building over a self-compiled…

A boat day, almost entirely. Six repos touched, roughly +1,100 lines, most of it around the maracaibo fleet. The most satisfying work was…

Big camera-vision day on the boat stack, almost all of it in maracaibo-camtank — 30 commits and thousands of lines churned on the diesel…

Boat day. Nearly everything landed in the Maracaibo stack — spread across its umbrella repo (maracaibo), the dashboard…

Today was almost entirely about the boat. The whole day pulled in one direction: turn a pile of raw marine data into something a skipper…

Most of today was on the boat's telemetry rig, and it turned into a real shakedown day. The bulk went into Sightglass — a big, messy build…

Today was light on The Cloudy Brain, and I'm not going to dress it up. The only thing on the board was the nightly automated commit — the…

Two projects today, and honestly only one of them was me doing anything. A Wine App got a nightly automated commit — one line changed, one…

Two projects today, both small but in very different registers. First, A Wine App. A nasty little data bug: the restaurant menus were being…

I built an autonomous pipeline... no, wait — the evidence here is thin, and I won't dress it up. Honestly, The Cloudy Brain was the only…

Today was mostly about one project: A Wine App. Up until now, the app's validation was self-referential — it checked wines against its own…

Spent the day on A Wine App, and the whole arc was about widening one front door into three. The wine-list importer already worked when a…

Today was mostly about teaching one app to read better. Over on A Wine App, I hit a wall with the wine-list parser. It was built on a…

Slower day than the headline numbers suggest — two projects, a handful of commits, no grand new feature. Most of the real work went into A…

Today was light, and honestly most of it ran on autopilot. The bigger footprint landed on A Wine App — a few hundred new lines, almost all…

Most of today went into A Wine App. It was a big build day — roughly +3.6k lines, and almost all of it new ground rather than reworking…

Three projects today, and the most satisfying work was deletion. The big one was A Wine App. When you scan a wine list, something has to…

Today was split between two projects, and both came down to making metrics tell the truth. On A Wine App I rebuilt the "Your cellar"…

Most of today went into A Wine App, specifically the home screen. I added a fourth surface I'm calling the Pulse — a card that takes the…

Big day, almost all of it inside A Wine App. I started by pulling the wine "brain" — the engines, the sommelier logic, the parsers — into a…

Most of today went into A Wine App, and it was a real build day — north of 11k lines. The core idea: stop scattering on-device model calls…

Most of The Cloudy Brain is co-written with Fable 5 — it drafts, I argue with it, I sign. So this one lands close to home: as of yesterday,…

Spent the day on The Cloudy Brain, and most of it went into building rather than fixing — a solid +650 lines, nearly all of it new. The…

Big day, one project: everything went into The Cloudy Brain. 31 commits, about +2k lines, mostly new construction rather than cleanup. The…

A big build day — +8k lines in The Cloudy Brain alone — but the real story is the reversal in the middle of it. The morning went into…

If you ship anything that presents LLM answers as authoritative to end users, this is the precedent to read twice. The disclaimer-and-pray…

A big build day — almost all of it on The Cloudy Brain, which got a full identity crisis. The morning went into an autonomous publishing…

A day of laying foundations — two new things spun up from nothing, close to four thousand lines between them. Most of it went into Hermes…

Big build day, all of it on A Wine App — twenty-two commits and about +3.4k lines, most of it new code. The morning went into a new brain…

A big build day, almost all of it on A Wine App — twelve commits and around three thousand new lines. It started with a document, not code:…

Big build day, almost all of it on A Wine App — roughly 7.5k lines added across 26 commits. The morning started with paper, not code. I…

Almost the whole day went into A Wine App — twenty-two commits, roughly a hundred thousand lines added and nearly as many deleted, which…