I tested an old 2014 AMD A4 machine to see if it could run Ollama with a small model, having Claude handle the setup and prompts. It generated roughly 2–2.6 tokens per second—usable but slow.

I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to…

The first MoQ conference coming soon (October) in San-Fran-cis-co.

I shut down Hermes and launched Moment Savor on the same day. The connection is a simpler division of labor: Amp handles the novel work, while Swamp makes the repeatable parts observable and…

A while back I wrote about how I set up Authentik forward auth with Traefik on NixOS. It worked fine but recently I decided to rebuild my homelab/vps from scratch and decided to try moving to Pocket…

Back in 2018, I bought a second hand Kobo Aura e-ink reader, for 50 euros. It is now considered somewhat slow, and with a pretty small screen. But it ended up being one of the 4 electronic devices I…

Play with Putty is a research experiment in collaborative vibe coding — an exploration where multiple people, together with fast LLMs, iterate on multiplayer-first projects in real time: We'll share…

SQL. You either love it or you hate it. I fall in the love camp. My introduction into coding was through SQL. Everyone has their native language they think in and mine is SQL. While I love SQL I also…

Imagine someone tells you to get them a rock. You go find one, bring it back, and they reply ‘no, not that rock’. They didn’t know exactly what they wanted, but they knew yours wasn’t it. When…

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Nobody praised the first printed Bibles for their craftsmanship. The type wobbled. Ink bled through thin paper. Pages ran crooked off the press, and readers got ink on their fingers just holding the…

I wanted a field guide to stay current on modern full-stack web development with JavaScript and Python. Hence the mullet: JavaScript in the front, Python in the back. Each side checks its own types,…

RAG gets a language model to answer questions from documents it was never trained on, by finding the right passages and pasting them into the prompt. Most of what makes the searching work predates…

My field guide to surviving the jump from Mac to Windows and WSL, without losing a week to filesystem gotchas.

This is a simple, practical guide for fellow educators who are trying to teach introductory topics using python notebooks when environments like google colab end up immediately giving students the…

"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "Nor is there anyone who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it,…

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." — Carl Sagan Most mornings I make a cheese sandwich. Two slices of bread, some butter, a few slabs of…

Updating Stuff Breaks Things For my Linux desktop, I used to use Waybar to display my current desktop, the time & date, as well as some minimal CPU/RAM metrics. I got it all looking like I wanted to,…

Next.js ships its documentation inside the package. MUI ships an MCP server and four skills. Storybook ships one too, and Playwright ships three test agents. Four teams solved the same problem within…

This website is, in some sense, an open call for everyone out there: “this is what I think and this is what I do, let’s connect!” This requires setting up pathways for people to reach out to me, and…

This is a long-overdue follow-up to my 2023 essay AI Pessimism.

I gave an agent an old Pixel 4 and asked it to port Omarchy to it.

Accessibility Custom Content was introduced back in the 2020 releases “[to deliver] accessibility information from complex data sets to your users in measured portions.” Put another way, it allows…

runaway to the stars i was recommended this by a dear friend and while i pretty regularly find new webcomics hard to get into, this one was an absolute breeze and i was up to date in a couple of…

I'm a fan of pretty readme files. In fact, I like having centered content on the top. I'm particularly happy with my readmes for PlanningPoker, PostgreSignalR, and my very recent Dovetail. It's on…

For the past few weeks, I've adopted a new workflow for my AI assisted coding. I've settled on a very simple subagent based approach, where a main agent coordinates the work, and two subagents do the…

Rebuilding haiku.joecooper.me for CPU-only inference.

Union types in the sense of typed unions share many similarities with other kinds of unions when it comes to representing union values in memory, but also pose a few question unique to typed unions.…

After using rakit/console for years, I finally decided to fork it (it hasn’t been updated for 8 years) and create my own version of this simple PHP console library. It allows you to easily…

Some things feel more authentic than others. My favorite singer appears, she jumps onto a table in front of an ecstatic crowd that has completely forgotten how to behave. We're collectively losing…

This will work with 1 or multiple monitors, it allows you to adjust the zoom level without switching your resolution.

How much can social media reveal without reading someone's posts? An old Twitter project exploring political inference from social connections, profile descriptions, and public metadata.

The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the move and making developmental leaps. Time is this sort of weird compressed experience, not dissimilar…

Volume I of my Fuchsia Internals report series is the graphics and display pipeline, and it is a deliberate choice for the first deep-dive: graphics is a complete worked application that exercises…

After a long pause I brought my beloved Kinesis Advantage2 back to life with a complete transplant.

My European software radar: the complete list of software (hosting, payment, monitoring) that I use or recommend to launch a product in Europe.

It's been a while since we've done a big bowl-a-ramen; it hit 51°F or something last night and Activated something in us, tho. The pickles are still a hit, and will remain a hit until gone (I asked…

I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client

If you’re looking for overnight hikes near Queenstown, you’ve got quite a few options thanks to the epic hut system. This post will contain four lovely overnight hikes near Queenstown…

I'm thrilled to say I'm now working as part of Igalia, a worker-owned tech consultancy specializing in free and open source web technology. I'm a month in and the more I learn about…

A meditation on happiness in a storm.

Last time, we took a stroll down memory lane to review some ancient code I wrote, and see what/how I’d do things differently now. That was fun, and I have a new banger for us today. Today’s example…

In my work with customers adopting and securing AI agents at scale in enterprise environments, we are running into “human in the loop” usecases. For example, usecases where a sensitive operation MUST…

<et cetera> The biggest takeaway is that you need to have a really fast internet connection, preferably ethernet. Wifi / Mobile Data may not work. These tips are for the “good” /…

No, no, no, I’m not talking about the SCTV soap opera The Days of the Week although it’s pretty funny. Quick, what day of the week is August 24, 2026? Monday! Er, yeah, it’s today,…

Yeah, this kinda sucks

Danmei Web Novel Review: Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating by Jiàng Zi Bèi The Story Jing Huan is a handsome young university student whose favorite cousin, Liang Ran has encountered some…

AI sovereignty is being used to mean five different things simultaneously. But strip them back and they all reduce to the same question: what do you get to own?

a tasty store-cupboard dish