My desktop VM setup on macOS in 2025
The long version is at this gist, and maybe I’ll revise that going forward.
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Simple templating with built-in tools
Sometimes I need just a little templating, and I don’t want to install a tool to get it.
Agents don’t have agency
Can we resolve that the term “agent” implies mere delegation? I had assumed that in the AI domain of 2025 it was meant to imply personal agency, which bothered me. It would be cynical toward our real teammates to describe autoregressive tool use as proactive. It would imply an artificial person and ascribe free will. If people do mean it that way, how about we kindly cool their heels?
Try a screen reader weekend
Accessibility features prominently came up twice this week. First there were the initial posts of the series I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back. Then came Apple’s announcement of new accessibility features, which seems to have become an annual tradition.
What are apps even for now
At work, someone asked about whether apps as we know them belong in the future landscape of computing.
Haiku OS study path
I spent most of the weekend exploring the Haiku operating system. I saved my study path if you’d like to give yourself the same tour.
Serving local LLMs with MLX
Suppose you want to run an LLM on your device. I like to do that for personal privacy, business confidentiality, offline vibes, or just to avoid paying anyone but the power company. I also want to know how these stacks work and how much energy the workloads take. Remember when you knew what your PC was up to because you could hear the disk going?
Map-style function parameters
Function parameters could just as well be a map instead of a list. Why are they always a list?
AI is a horse
AI is a horse.
Page size redux
This blog now paginates, upholding a goal set last year to keep the gzipped page size under the 14 kilobyte boundary.