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The game has changed, and what I thought was a good way to do PR reviews no longer works well when everyone is equipped with modern LLMs. Over the years PRs have become a ceremony serving multiple functions: catching bugs by getting two or more sets of ey

I had the happy opportunity to attend /dev/world again this year and connect and reconnect with a bunch of developers. It's such a good-natured group and it's been inspiring to see lots of participation from students this year. When the industry is evolvi

My little Rust library netwatcher has a new release and the changelog is unusually long. As you've probably already guessed from the title, this is because I took the time to run some LLMs over it looking for bugs and doc inconsistencies. It turns out tha

In a recent post I was getting excited about HaLow and I mentioned that I had some HT-HD01 units on order from Heltec. Those have now arrived and my excitement continues. These units are very cool for three main reasons. It's affordable. They cost 69 USD

I'm rather pleased. I've been able to bolt together enough pieces of software that I can now run DeepSeek v4 Flash with native MXFP4 routed-expert weights on my MacBook Pro, not only via a CLI harness like OpenCode, but also through Xcode's native "intell