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Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

• Time to leave one `amp --no-tui` running on your Mac mini and forget about it. It now serves every repo on the machine, and keeps itself updated.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

• A physicist has created a mini-universe in the laboratory and tested the origin of time.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

• current homelab setup for local AI experimentation: - hermes box hosted on a Framework Desktop Mainboard AI Max+ 395 - 5090 eGPU running Qwen 3.8 27B for fast tok/s LLM use - sometimes 150+ tok/s - 2x DGX Spark: running Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 - better but slower model - pi 5 for monitoring - Mac mini as a dev box - use Herdr and ohmypi/codex/claude depending on the use case - housed in a 10" DeskPi mini rack (mostly) Hermes is defaulted to local AI but with a homegrown routing plugin hitting a small low TTFT model (Arch-Router) to decide whether to go local or upgrade to cloud/frontier. Tryin…

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Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.

• Fully on board on Omarchy. Feels like the early web days again, playing in a new medium. I have a Mac Mini and BeeLink side by side on my desk. Only time I plug the monitor back into the Mac is for Zoom calls. Haven't found a way to see faces while sharing the entire screen yet.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

• UX Roundup: Employers Value Experience Over Skills | Exponential Growth in AI Use | AI Dependence | Undo | Disappointing Suno | AI’s Economic Scenarios | Reflective Design | Mini Maps | GPT Image 2.5

  Since January 2025, tech job postings have asked for 25% fewer skills but 5% more experience | AI spending among OpenAI’s heaviest research users is growing at 129% per month | 26% of young-adult chatbot users say they…

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

• qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

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CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.

• Apple is is the best poised to take advantage of AI. Open-source models would be absolutely amazing for Apple. Apple has incredible hardware and they have users' trust and they already have so much users' information. Apple's in a great position because it never made the investment in its own models, unlike Google (its main competitor). Apple can use the best open-source models that are out there and use models that are primarily using the compute on the devices, whether it be the phone, laptop, or Mac Mini (and even the devices at the edge like the Apple Watch and Airpods). It can encourage…

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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.

• one real issue I have with various agents now is "where is this code going to run" - does it need access to my local filesystem - can I fire it off from my phone and if so does it run on the cloud or needs my Mac mini fired up / synced? The current UX metaphors around this seem to need work.

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

• Spotify with a mini player that supports Winamp skins? Sign me up :D We're entering a weird age of software nostalgia. It really whips the Llama's ass!?

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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.

• x.comI needed a mini mobile homelab setup for VCF Midwest, and I've never used UniFi gear before. Thus I built this tiny homelab network rack, that fits in my carry-on luggage:

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• SiteBuilding a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on

  I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension f…

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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.

• Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T

  For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the mobile rack I'm buildi…

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Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.

• The Potential of M6 and M5 Ultra for Local AI on macOS

  Earlier today, Apple unveiled the new generation of Mac mini and Mac Studio, featuring the latest entries in the Apple silicon family of chips: the M6, available in the Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra, exclusive to the Mac S…

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

• The ultimate road trip combo: Starlink Mini + UniFi Travel Router

  I recently went on an epic road trip around Europe, covering 1,645 miles (2,647 km), and we took in some amazing sights and locations. As a tech geek, I was worried about my connectivity on the trip, so before we set of…

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing! Turns out the AI models that generate embedding vectors from images directly are BAD at capturing the image contents, so I had to first generate captions and then generate the embeddings for the captions instead. Total cost: $30 for both captions (gpt-5-mini) and embeddings (text-embedding-3-large with 3072 dimensions).

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

• well, @openclaw was good to apple this team conservatively drove $50-$150m in mac mini sales alone this year haha (roughly +50% of normal annual mac mini sales worldwide, just due to openclaw 2026)
  Quoting@steipete512GB RAM Studios. Apple was good to us. 🦞

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Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

• Had a mini heart attack: contents of my iCloud drive disappeared... Somehow, still visible on https://t.co/56g50Dzvl1, on another computer, and on my phone - wtf is going on idk, but just in case, did a local backup and copying it over to my NAS. I've been putting it off to automate this for too long, will have to look into automating all that (already do it for photos btw)

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Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.

• Summer Update

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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.

• You can finally power on a Mac remotely

  Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is…

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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

• Just added new documentation for WSL 2 users of DotFriedRice. Now there's a mini-guide FAQ item for installing the Microsoft Terminal, WSL 2 and Arch Linux so you can install DotFriedRice in a few minutes in case you never used WSL 2 before.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

• mini-coding-agent — Minimal and readable coding agent harness implementation in Python to explain the core components of coding agents.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

• BlueskyEver since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out.

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• x.comEver since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out.

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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• Reachy-Mini update🚨 Good: quality up++, sound/elec better than alpha. First tiny batches ship late Sep. Less good: scaling to thousands units (vs. 100s planned) taking longer than expected Still on track to ship first 3000 pre-orders before Xmas🎄(Lite & Wireless), most shipping early Dec.

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

• I just plugged a mini SD card in to a fullsize SD card adapter in to a USB-A SD card reader in to a USB-A USB-C adapter in to a Mac to copy an indie freeware gameboy game so it could be used by my kids raspberry pi gameboy emulator

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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Read more and order now at

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Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and of the todo.txt format.

• jenny-holzer-truisms — 👀 A mini interactive tribute to Jenny Holzer's Truisms.

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

• 👇 Great work led by Yushun (@ericzhang0410) introducing Adam-mini, a version of Adam that, surprisingly, reduces Adam's memory requirement by 50% (!), without negatively affecting convergence rates. Please read Yushun's thread for details!
  Quoting@yushun_zzzFinally finished Adam-mini! A "mini" version of Adam that painlessly frees 50% of memory over Adam. Some highlighted features: 1. Adam-mini saves 50% memory over Adam for all modern neural nets. This is done by removing 99.9% Adam's v (but the last 0.1% of v is essential and necessary). 2. Adam-min…

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

• dictionary-game — :notebook_with_decorative_cover: A dictionary mini game

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