Software engineer making videos about dev gear, local AI, and weird tech experiments

Washington DC, USA
That foldable has been bent one too many times, but the app is beautiful
Some have asked why not develop it in SwiftUI? I actually love Swift in general. The reason I used @NativeScript is because I plan to deploy this to Android foldables as well. Here it is on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3.
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I had a visitor! coffee was had
I'm in someone else's studio today!! What questions do you have for @digitalix ?!?!?
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Alex Ziskind retweeted
I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited): homelabfest.org
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Faster chips, new bottleneck 🤯 Two clustered M5 Ultra Macs ran SLOWER than one: 35 tok/s vs 53. Which is strange, considering my experiments with M3 Ultra were the opposite. Keep the GPUs awake and they jump to 58 tok/s.
let’s see what these can do.
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then...I ended up running tensor parallel, but deeepseek v4 flash has only one KV head, so the trick is to copy it to both machines, and split all the other layets. The result: the best prefill of any setup (1,810 tok/s, +23% over one Mac) but the worst decode (32 tok/s). Every token needs 60+ syncs between the Macs.
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why can't we have our cake and eat it too?
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found it: µ
so far m5 ultra cluster has slightly better rdma latency: 21ųs instead of 28ųs on the M3 ultra. i don’t even know if ų is the right symbol 😆
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so far m5 ultra cluster has slightly better rdma latency: 21ųs instead of 28ųs on the M3 ultra. i don’t even know if ų is the right symbol 😆
let’s see what these can do.
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let’s see what these can do.
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It's over
This is one of China's most formidable advantages: 93% of the Chinese believe AI will help their country. Only 36% of Americans do. These are dire numbers for the US. We have to turn this around.
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M5 Ultra vs dual sparks on deepseek-v4-flash. Disag still on the table
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Vibe coding has made building apps ridiculously fast, BUT getting that app deployed is still way more annoying than it should be. Hostman is built around making that part faster, especially if you’re already building with GitHub, Cursor, Claude, etc. I took a look at how it works 👇 (Sponsored by Hostman.)
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They also have managed databases like PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL and ClickHouse. This is the kind of stuff I usually don’t want to spend time setting up when I’m just trying to get a project running.
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