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Kevin Tang's blog. Thoughts on software, developer tools, and things worth knowing.

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Blog 3 months ago
When the Compiler Is a PCB Factory
I thought sending a board to a factory was like printing a PDF. Then the factory's output changed one LED-and asked me to approve the result.
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Blog 3 months ago
The Chord Your Keyboard Can't Play
I built a tiny piano app and found a chord that physically cannot be played on a MacBook keyboard. The bug wasn't in my code-it's soldered into the keyboard, and it's been there for sixty years.
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Blog 3 months ago
A Game Controller Is a Second Keyboard for Your Mac
Use PS5, Xbox, Switch, Steam, 8BitDo, and 300+ game controllers as a keyboard, mouse, macro pad, OBS remote, or Anki controller on macOS.
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Blog 3 months ago
I Ran DeepSeek V4 Flash Across Two DGX Sparks Over Ethernet
NVIDIA recommends a 200G fabric for clustering DGX Sparks. I made tensor-parallel DeepSeek work over an ordinary 10GbE cable-and measured what the slower link costs.
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Blog 4 months ago
Your iPhone Is an OpenAI-Compatible LLM Server Now
Local LLM Server exposes Apple's on-device Foundation Models over an OpenAI- and Ollama-compatible HTTP API - point any client library at your phone's LAN address.
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Blog 4 months ago
Caption Videos on Your iPhone Without Uploading Them Anywhere
Whisper Caption runs OpenAI's Whisper model on-device to caption videos in 90+ languages - karaoke word highlighting, no cloud, no subscription.
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Blog 4 months ago
Where the Ball Stopped
Topgolf records where your ball ended up, not how fast you hit it. BaySpeed runs the physics backwards to recover the missing number-now on the App Store.
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Blog 4 months ago
I Scroll Too Much, So I Built an Elevator
I dictated the idea one morning and shipped it that afternoon: Scroll Elevator, a menu-bar app that puts jump-to-top/bottom buttons at your cursor when you scroll. Built because running a grid of AI coding agents had me scrolling all day.
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Blog 5 months ago
How to Jump to the Top or Bottom of Any App on macOS
The Mac has no universal 'scroll to top' button, and laptops dropped the Home/End keys. Here are the keyboard shortcuts that actually exist - and the tiny utility I built when I got tired of them.
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Blog 6 months ago
Anki on a Game Controller: the AnKing Setup for Mac
How to use a PlayStation, Xbox, or 8BitDo controller for Anki on Mac - with the prebuilt AnKing community profile in ControllerKeys.
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