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22 posts on distributed systems, on-device AI, data platforms and the traps between them. Every claim here comes from a machine I actually ran — numbers, failures and receipts included.
2026-08-28I Trained a 1.7B Model to Beat an 8B One — Crab-1 OSINT Agent6 min · SLM, QLoRA, OSINT, Evaluation
2026-08-05Every Improvement I Made to My 1.7B Agent Made It Worse11 min · SLM, Eval, QLoRA, Crab-1
2026-08-04I Wrote a Self-Healing Script That Could Strand the Machines It Healed11 min · Networking, DHCP, Automation, Incident
2026-08-03Two of My Own Alert Rules Were Wrong. Here Is How I Found Out.11 min · Alerting, Prometheus, Observability
2026-08-02A 2012 Mac Mini Beats a Xeon Per Core. That Changed How I Schedule Jobs.12 min · Nomad, Benchmarking, Hardware, Scheduling
2026-08-01Changing a Live Server's Address Changes Its Identity10 min · Nomad, Serf, Networking
2026-05-19Your Codebase Is Lying to You. Here's How to Catch It.4 min · ArchDogma, Static Analysis, Python
2026-05-09ArchDogma v0.2.0: Scan Your Whole Project, Not Just One File4 min · ArchDogma, Static Analysis, CLI
2026-05-08Kafka Data Flow in a DePIN Pipeline4 min · Kafka, DePIN, Go
2026-05-07ArchDogma: Python Architecture Linting That Doesn't Lie4 min · ArchDogma, Python, Linting
2026-05-06I Replaced My Team with 3 AI Agents. Here's the Architecture.7 min · Agents, Orchestration, Memory
2026-05-06I Write Electronic Music in Python: No DAW, No Samples, Just Math7 min · Python, Audio, DSP
2026-03-31DePIN in 2026: Who Actually Buys Crowdsourced Network Data?12 min · DePIN, Market, Pricing
2026-03-31I Benchmarked 7 On-Device LLMs So You Don't Have To11 min · On-device AI, Benchmarking, LLM
2026-03-31Prompting Without Pain: What Actually Works in March 202614 min · Prompting, LLM, Evaluation
2026-03-315 Things Nobody Tells You About Solana Token-202210 min · Solana, Token-2022, Anchor
2026-03-3130 Sessions, 1 Developer, 0 Employees: Building a Full-Stack DePIN Platform with Claude9 min · Claude, Agents, DePIN
2026-03-30How I Built This Portfolio: Zero Dependencies, 11 Architecture Layers12 min · DDD, Web, Performance
2026-03-28Rust to WASM: Building a Fraud Detection Engine for the Browser8 min · Rust, WASM, Benchmarking
2026-03-21ClickHouse vs TimescaleDB for Geospatial Data10 min · ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Geospatial
2026-03-21Running 3.8B Models on 8GB RAM9 min · LLM, Quantisation, MLX
2026-03-20Kafka KRaft for Solo Projects8 min · Kafka, KRaft, Docker
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