Repebble

I’ve been tinkering with deepseek-r1 for a couple of weeks now, but with its newfound popularity and cries of impending doom for developers, I thought I’d do a little bit of more systematic testing with a trivial use case and post the results. What follows is my notes from a somewhat frustrating three hours of my life where I cajoled it to do a...

LeaderKey is an intriguing macOS launcher that uses a vim-like “leader key” keybinding system to launch applications and run scripts.

This is a little earlier than I expected, but completely in line. Like I wrote over the holidays, there is no more low-hanging fruit. But smarter (and massively cheaper) training strategies seem to yield “nearly as good” results as turning datacenters into massively expensive power sinks, so no wonder the market is jittery. After all, deepseek-r1...

This week I took it easy over the weekend and put some things on hold to clear my mind from the industry’s chaos. The weather is pretty crappy and I felt like I needed to relax, so I started out by binging Noclip’s Hades: Developing Hell documentary (which, incidentally, is now available on physical media). That eventually led to my spending a...

Zed is a developer-oriented editor written in Rust with some AI features and a focus on performance. It is still in early stages of development, but is already quite usable (it has vim bindings, for starters and has a number of interesting features as well as enough extensibility to make it an intriguing alternative to Visual Studio Code.