https://lobsterswamp.space/blog.html Technical writing on distributed systems, AI infrastructure, data platforms and on-device AI — with the numbers, not the vibes. en maingaidar@gmail.com (Yegor Gaidar) maingaidar@gmail.com (Yegor Gaidar) Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/img/og-card.png https://lobsterswamp.space/blog.html https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/crab1-slm-osint/ How a distilled 1.7B SLM (Qwen3 + QLoRA SFT) outperformed Llama 3.1 8B on real OSINT company profiling: 76.7% vs 0% pass rate, verifiable rewards, receipts… Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/crab1-slm-osint/ Yegor Gaidar SLM QLoRA OSINT Evaluation https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/small-model-simplicity-wins/ Four attempts to make a Qwen3-1.7B tool-calling agent smarter. Three made it measurably dumber. The reward bug, the lying eval harness, and the design rule… Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/small-model-simplicity-wins/ Yegor Gaidar SLM Eval QLoRA Crab-1 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/self-healing-that-strands/ Renumbering a remote site's LAN from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.2.0/24, with a DHCP safety net that had two bugs. 7 of 10 machines recovered — and the… Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/self-healing-that-strands/ Yegor Gaidar Networking DHCP Automation Incident https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/alert-rules-that-never-fire/ An alert rule you have never seen fire on a real failure is not a rule, it is a decoration. A temperature rule that screamed at nine idle Macs, a… Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/alert-rules-that-never-fire/ Yegor Gaidar Alerting Prometheus Observability https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/mac-mini-fleet-benchmark/ Nine second-hand Mac minis, a used PowerEdge T430 and two containers make a 12-worker, 76-thread cluster. A Nomad sysbatch benchmark showed the dual-Xeon is… Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/mac-mini-fleet-benchmark/ Yegor Gaidar Nomad Benchmarking Hardware Scheduling https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/nomad-serf-address-identity/ A 3-server Nomad control plane lost its leader when I flipped the advertise address of every live server at once. In serf/memberlist the address is part of… Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/nomad-serf-address-identity/ Yegor Gaidar Nomad Serf Networking https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/archdogma-truth/ 90% of linters catch style. ArchDogma catches the moment your codebase becomes a time bomb — with real postmortems, not rule IDs. Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/archdogma-truth/ Yegor Gaidar ArchDogma Static Analysis Python https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/archdogma-v020-scan/ ArchDogma v0.2.0 ships archdogma scan — a whole-project scanner that walks every .py file, runs all Tier 1 detectors, and reports findings with file:line… Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/archdogma-v020-scan/ Yegor Gaidar ArchDogma Static Analysis CLI https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/kafka-data-flow/ A visual walkthrough of how QuackNet routes crowdsourced network scan data through Kafka KRaft to ClickHouse, fraud detection, and real-time alerts… Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/kafka-data-flow/ Yegor Gaidar Kafka DePIN Go https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/archdogma-pypi-launch/ ArchDogma v0.1.0 is now on PyPI. A static analysis tool that catches architectural anti-patterns in Python — not style, not formatting, but structure. 11… Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/archdogma-pypi-launch/ Yegor Gaidar ArchDogma Python Linting https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/ai-agent-company/ How I built a persistent multi-agent AI workforce: Lobster (OpenClaw/Claude), Hermes (CLI agent), and Paperclip as the control plane. Heartbeat protocol… Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/ai-agent-company/ Yegor Gaidar Agents Orchestration Memory https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/ai-music-with-numpy/ How I generate techno and ambient tracks using pure NumPy and SciPy — no DAW, no samples, no plugins. Every kick drum, synth wave, and chord progression… Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/ai-music-with-numpy/ Yegor Gaidar Python Audio DSP https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/depin-market-who-buys-data/ Investigative analysis of the DePIN market in 2026: who actually buys crowdsourced network data, pricing models, and what building QuackNet taught me about… Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/depin-market-who-buys-data/ Yegor Gaidar DePIN Market Pricing https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/on-device-llm-benchmark-2026/ Real-world benchmarking of on-device LLMs on Apple M1: Phi-4-mini, Qwen2.5-3B, Llama-3.2-3B, and more. Discover which model wins for local inference in 2026. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/on-device-llm-benchmark-2026/ Yegor Gaidar On-device AI Benchmarking LLM https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/prompting-investigation-2026/ A practical investigation into prompting techniques for Claude, Grok Imagine, and ChatGPT in 2026. Vector spaces, positive framing, XML tags, and 20 real… Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/prompting-investigation-2026/ Yegor Gaidar Prompting LLM Evaluation https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/solana-token2022-gotchas/ Building on-chain token programs with Anchor? Token-2022 is powerful but full of hidden gotchas. Here's what I learned deploying 5 programs for QuackNet. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/solana-token2022-gotchas/ Yegor Gaidar Solana Token-2022 Anchor https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/solo-dev-with-claude/ A candid builder story: how I built QuackNet, a full-stack DePIN platform with 5 Solana programs, a Flutter app, Go backend, Kafka pipeline, and ClickHouse… Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/solo-dev-with-claude/ Yegor Gaidar Claude Agents DePIN https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/building-this-portfolio/ Technical deep dive into building a portfolio with vanilla JS, DDD architecture, EventBus pattern, Three.js particles, WebLLM integration, and a… Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/building-this-portfolio/ Yegor Gaidar DDD Web Performance https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/rust-wasm-browser-fraud/ A dated correction. I claimed a 6.3 KB Rust/WASM engine at 50,000 scores per second and 10x faster than JavaScript. I withdrew it, then hand-wrote 218 bytes… Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/rust-wasm-browser-fraud/ Yegor Gaidar Rust WASM Benchmarking https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/clickhouse-vs-timescale/ Why I run both PostgreSQL+ClickHouse in production. Architecture decisions, H3 geospatial indexing, and real query performance numbers. Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/clickhouse-vs-timescale/ Yegor Gaidar ClickHouse TimescaleDB Geospatial https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/phi4-mini-8gb/ Microsoft Phi-4-mini, MLX framework, 4-bit quantization. How to run capable language models on consumer hardware with real benchmarks. Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/phi4-mini-8gb/ Yegor Gaidar LLM Quantisation MLX https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/kafka-kraft-solo/ Why Kafka KRaft mode makes sense for solo developers. Single-process broker+controller, no ZooKeeper, and the gotchas I learned. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lobsterswamp.space/blog/kafka-kraft-solo/ Yegor Gaidar Kafka KRaft Docker