UPDATE April 29: Yesterday, I encountered the issue described below and initially believed it was resolved. However, the problem reoccurred today—the laptop screen remained off after boot. Currently, the only reliable workaround is to boot into the LTS kernel. Hopefully,…
I remember the first time my Python script suddenly broke because another project of mine installed a conflicting, outdated version of a library. It was a frustrating headache where my script stopped working for no obvious reason. That was the…
There is a growing disconnect in the AI space. If you spend any time on YouTube or tech blogs, you are bombarded with “game-changing” agents and “revolutionary” workflows. However, as someone who prioritizes local-first AI, I’ve noticed a frustrating trend:…
In this post, I share a candid look at the current state of local AI agents. I attempted to use a local LLM setup—running on my Mac via Ollama—to handle a trivial administrative task: renaming a page within a WordPress…
I am currently developing a series of music education apps. If this is a field that interests you, feel free to take the code below and run it directly in your web browser. Like all the other free JavaScript apps…
For a long time, the gap between having a great idea and actually seeing it live on my website was a significant friction point. It wasn’t the writing that was the problem—it was the “administrative tax”: the formatting, the tagging,…
For the last few years, we’ve been “chatting” with AI (often using local intelligence via Ollama). We’ve treated LLMs as fancy encyclopedias or coding assistants that give us snippets we then have to manually copy, paste, and debug. But as…
I just ran Qwen3.6 — Alibaba’s latest local-LLM offering — on my Mac Studio M4 Max and my first impression is honest: this is a monster of a model. Not just in raw capability, but in pure usability. After a…
The AI world is obsessed with leaderboards. But for builders and “vibe coders,” MMLU scores mean nothing compared to how a model actually feels on a mid-range laptop or a Mac. I decided to ignore the benchmarks and focus on…