April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 12B on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive - how-to-setup-ollama-on-a-macmini.md

I enjoy Europe as much as the next urbanist, but years of living and traveling there never uprooted one of my most unpopular opinions:  Streets numbered in sequential order are a wonderful thing for the cities that have them.  I was recently in Bogotá, Colombia…

Critics say Brussels risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure.

Japanese Twitter has been insulated from the culture wars and manipulation by foreign bots, one reason political discourse remains reasonably sane.

Every dataframe library ships with hundreds of operations. pandas alone has over 200 methods on a DataFrame. Is pivot different from melt? Is apply different from map? What about transform, agg, applymap, pipe? Some of these seem like the same operation wearing…

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Writings from (and often to) Chalmovský

Via's new AVC Streaming License Fee structure, which applies to new licenses beginning in 2026, replaces the old single-cap model with a tiered system that scales sharply with platform size.

A post explaining the advantages of do notation and RecordWildCards over Applicative operators

AWS has officially removed all EC2 instances in Bahrain from their docs.

I don't think it's coming back anytime soon:

When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to.

$ ssh -l jane 192.0.2.65
The authen...

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We built a background agent for API integrations. Here is what worked, what failed, and how we made it reliable.

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how to hide juicy data in plain sight

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet…

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