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Skip Ollama, Run llama.cpp Directly on a Mac

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Prompted by an HN thread: The Local LLM Ecosystem Doesn’t Need Ollama

Ollama is built on llama.cpp. For more than 400 days it ignored a GitHub issue asking it to say so. That’s the headline complaint in a recent Hacker News thread — but the more useful finding, buried underneath, is that llama.cpp no longer needs a wrapper at all. On a Mac it’s now the simpler choice, not the harder one.

Auditing my own scripts drawer

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:53:00 -0400

Every developer has a ~/dev/tools/scripts folder. Mine has run for years without an index. I asked Claude Code to read every file in it and write one.

The brief was simple: read the whole directory, then produce an INDEX.md with three columns — tool, how to run it, what it does.

It scanned roughly 40 files: Python CLIs built on uv, shell wrappers, one-off Snowflake key-rotation scripts, a tmux session launcher, a Hacker News summarizer. Some had docstrings. Several had none, and their purpose was recoverable only by reading the argparse block or the hardcoded constants at the top.

Local Dev Secret Management with 1Password and Bitwarden

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most developers have a graveyard of dotfiles, .env files, and Slack DMs containing tokens that were supposed to be temporary. This post describes the pattern I use to keep all local dev secrets in a password manager and inject them into my shell on demand — nothing sensitive ever touches disk.

The full setup lives in my dot-local repo on GitHub, including the helper functions and new-machine setup guide.

The Problem

I work across multiple machines: a work Mac that uses 1Password and a personal Mac that uses Bitwarden. I needed a single pattern that worked on both without maintaining two separate codebases or hardcoding tool-specific logic everywhere.