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Father, partner, geek, chess player

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Joined February 2009
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You scanned the model's weights and felt safe. But it ships a second program — the chat template — that runs on every prompt, and nobody reads it. On chat-template attacks and the scanner I built:
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We built an ocean of invisible signals — key fobs, Wi-Fi, NFC, IR — then forgot to grow senses for it. Here's the ~$30 pocket tool that reads the weather you're standing in. No hacking. Free 25-page field guide. 🌊
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Tuned Gemma 4 on my DGX Spark with vLLM. Adding MTP speculative decoding to NVFP4 cut single-stream decode from 33.8 to 14.5 ms/token and lifted 8-stream output from 179 to 306 tok/s. Full step-by-step write-up, every benchmark and mistake included:
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Running AI coding agents entirely on local models — no cloud, no subscriptions. Got 63 tok/s and 128K context on an M4 Pro using oMLX + gpt-oss-20b. Full how-to: agileguy.ca/running-opencode…
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5 AI agents. 5 machines. 5 different models. One Kafka+Redis server implementing Google's A2A protocol turns them into a collaborative mesh that auto-routes tasks, retries failures, and fans out work. Here's how I built it: agileguy.ca/mcs-a2a/
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I got 5 AI agents running different models on different machines to review 34,000 lines of code simultaneously. They found 38 issues no single reviewer caught. Here's exactly how I built the coordination layer — with full diagrams: agileguy.ca/mcs-review/
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These aren't hypothetical tutorials. I actually had to do all of this — headless servers, AI agents on a Pi, Tailscale monitoring, multi-agent architecture. 5 free slidedecks from real projects. No signup required. agileguy.ca/learning-materia…
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These aren't hypothetical tutorials. I actually had to do all of this — headless servers, AI agents on a Pi, Tailscale monitoring, multi-agent architecture. 5 free slidedecks from real projects. No signup required. agileguy.ca/learning-materia…
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I gave 4 AI agents a Telegram group chat and told them to play UNO. No game engine. No rules enforcer. Just vibes. One bot dealt a purple card (not real). Another tried to build a bot-within-a-bot (it crashed). A third paused the game when nobody asked.
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Everyone is building MCP servers for AI agents. Benchmarks say they shouldn't be. 43x more tokens. 4x more code. Even MCP's creator is quietly moving away from it. The answer has been in /usr/bin since 1971
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What if everything we thought we knew about happiness was only half the story? I dove deep into the science of human flourishing - 150+ peer-reviewed studies, data from 200,000 people across 22 countries. The findings challenged everything I assumed.
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The Harvard Study of Adult Development - 85 years of data - found the #1 predictor of health at 80 isn't cholesterol. It's relationship satisfaction at 50. Meanwhile, 1 in 6 people worldwide report loneliness. We're richer than ever and more disconnected than ever.
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