There's a long history of "middleware" in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often disappoints.
Small Models Have Arrived
For the past few weeks, I've been playing with gpt-5.6-luna. It is shockingly capable, fast, and smart. I regularly see it do ~100 tps, and rip around my codebase, email, and knowledge base.
DHH on Twitter / X
Going to double down on the MacBook mission with Omarchy. We almost have perfect coverage for the vintage Intel era going from 2009-2020. There's a straight shot to get the M1 and M2 machines going too, even if it's a lot more work. But we'll do the work. We'll fix everything.— DHH (@dhh) August 22, 2026
Alex Cheema on Twitter / X
4 x M5 Max MacBooks clustered with RDMA:512GB @ 2456GB/s, $20k, 560W, quiet.Find me a better deal, that I can buy today. https://t.co/pWZsHnv0Kl— Alex Cheema (@alexocheema) May 13, 2026
AMD Ryzen™ AI MAX+ 395 Processor: Breakthrough AI Performance in Thin and Light
The AMD Ryzen™ AI MAX+ 395 (codename: “Strix Halo”) is the most powerful x86 APU in the market today and delivers a significant performance boost over the competition. Powered by 16 “Zen 5” CPU cores...
Paul Rony on Twitter / X
As models gets better and better, running them half-on-a-datacenter-half-on-a-laptop becomes less practical every day. That’s why we think that each user now needs its own machine, ready to do your best work.— Paul Rony (@Paul_Rony) August 21, 2026
You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…
Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier? - Slashdot
The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..." [While optimists expect] huge corporate p...
Casper Hansen on Twitter / X
Qwen3.5 Small models about to release!Qwen3.5 9B, 4B, 2B, 0.8B, or something in between is possible.- imagine 9B beating Qwen3-Next-80B- or 4B beating Qwen3-VL-30B in multimodal reasoningBuying a GPU is starting to have high return of intelligence on investment— Casper Hansen (@casper_hansen_) March 1, 2026
Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's 'Off the Charts' Demand
Apple's most affordable MacBook ever appears to be a resounding hit with customers, based on comments shared by CEO Tim Cook this week. On an earnings call on Thursday, Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo has been "off the charts" since the laptop was unveiled in March. "We could not be happier with how things are going at the moment," he said.
0xSero on Twitter / X
I told y’all this is the move. Heterogenous hardware is the way forward. Large cheap pools of mixed memory + specialized accelerators (Nvidia GPUs, DGX Spark, Cerebras wafers) The next year will be dominated by solutions that split the stack. - 3000$ for a used Mac Studio… https://t.co/zMlScSnJ0X— 0xSero (@0xSero) April 1, 2026
MCP-B: The Right place to build your MCP server is in your website
With all the major security issues and data leakages the MCP ecosystem has been facing recently, the pre-authorized, user-scoped sandbox of the browser feels like more of the promised land than ever.
GMKtec G10 Mini PC AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
The GMKtec NucBox G10 Mini PC is powered by the AMD Ryzen™ 5 3500U quad-core processor with Radeon™ Vega 8 Graphics, delivering smooth multitasking, 4K/8K display support, and reliable performance for home office and entertainment. Featuring dual DDR4 slots (up to 64GB), dual M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD expansion up to 16TB, triple-screen output via HDMI/DP/Type-C, WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and 2.5G-compatible Gigabit LAN, this compact mini PC offers powerful productivity in a space-saving design. Ideal for multi-display workstations, media centers, and everyday computing.
A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs
Subquadratic has now shared more details about its new model. But some are still skeptical.
so that new Mac Studio and M5 Ultra have me thinking about 2030 now the wildcard on the $1200ish 2030 Mac Mini is RAM. who knows what the future holds for RAM but the trajectory is clear: a reasonably priced home computer is going to have absolutely sicko inference power within a few years now…
