Experiences with local models for coding
This is the second memo where I describe my recent experiences on running small models locally on my developer machine for agentic coding. In the first memo, I covered the…
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Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I’m concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream: The costs of housing, healthcare, and education have soared far…
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Ollama MLX Nearly Doubles LLM Speed on Your Mac: 58 to 112 tok/s, and Your Old Models Get None of It | by Kashif Mehmood | Jul, 2026
12 min read · 16 hours ago Press enter or click to view image in full size Ollama’s MLX engine (safetensors) vs. the older llama.cpp engine (GGUF) on Apple Silicon…
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Build Your Own Healthcare AI Assistant with MedGemma, Ollama, and Open WebUI
Healthcare data is among the most sensitive data there is. Sending it to a cloud AI service is often not an option because of privacy requirements, regulatory compliance, or both….
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TechPays has been acquired by Levels.fyi
tl;dr: TechPays is joining Levels.fyi: so the leading tech salary site in Europe gets the love and care it deserves. Thanks to Zsombor for building this project with me for…
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Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?
Q: Paging Charity! Our industry tends to espouse the value of collaboration, but then places on pedestals the worst models of authoritarian leadership. You have a strong following of people…
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The Pragmatic Engineer AMA – by Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. Verify your system’s…
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AI and Job Postings: From Destruction to Creation?
Agentic AI may be flipping the relationship between AI exposure and job posting growth. Key points: US software development job postings have grown by almost 15% since the launch of…
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Let’s Talk About The American Dream
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But…
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How I Proved My Code Was Actually Running on Additional Propeller Cogs | by Maryclareok | Jul, 2026
Using the linker map, worker-reported cog IDs, an LED runtime test, simulation and oscilloscope measurements By Maryclare Press enter or click to view image in full size Propeller 1 Demo…
