jtbaker
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GIS, fullstack, AI/ML stuff in Austin, Texas
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Comment · 4 days ago
I love the magic mouse, had one going since 2016 and it is still great. Not a fan of their keyboards but the swipe + scrolling exp. on the magic mouse is great IMO.
Comment · 8 days ago
Yeah looks like it. Was just trying to search up a writeup of it, was pretty sure I remembered reading that a while ago.
Comment · 9 days ago
His namesake algo was also written entirely in his head in about 20 minutes at a coffee shop! https://harlepengren.com/dijkstras-algorithm-20-minutes/
Comment · 10 days ago
Write a log processing/aggregation tool!
Comment · 10 days ago
highest impact is when there is network overhead, like accessing them over S3/HTTP/S, and you're accessing many files as part of a query, like using a glob `-*.parquet` pattern. I imagine the same applies when you're doing local I/O, but not as pronounced of an improvement due to lower latency.
Comment · 10 days ago
Being able to put it behind an HTTP service / load balancer and implement horizontal scaling based on resource utilization, or even scale to zero via Cloud Run etc. Drool!
Comment · 12 days ago
S4E07, e.g. “407 Proxy Authentication Required” was a work of art. Appreciated the whole show, but particularly that episode.
Comment · 15 days ago
> They are out here selling the shovels
just wish their containerization / linux compat wasn't so nerfed. Just moved my homelab's inference engine over to a GB10 from a Mac MTP setup to have first class k8s support, as well as open up access to the broader CUDA ecosystem (cuOpt etc.).
Comment · 17 days ago
curl wttr.in !
Comment · 22 days ago
Oh hell yes. Throw us a bone @bcantrill
Comment · 25 days ago
HY SvelteKit
Comment · 1 month ago
LOL https://thenewstack.io/shopify-claude-code-agentsmd/
> “I’m thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.,” Lütke posted Tuesday on X.
Comment · 2 months ago
Have you been using an MTP setup? I've been having pretty good luck with the Qwen models with the built in MTP heads via https://mtplx.com at around Q4. My main driver rig is an M5 Max MBP work got for me a few weeks ago. Hitting 1000-1200 TPS prefill on Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next there.
Comment · 2 months ago
having a 64GB mac mini m4 pro the last few years with some increasingly capable usefulness has kept me interested in this stuff in a way that using a paid platform wouldn't have. Similar to running K8s in a homelab, something about interacting with the hardware makes it more engaging/interesting, for me at least.
In general, I'm a big believer in doing more with fewer resources, within reason, and think having local setups really helps me be mindful with what's happening under the hood with these systems and managing context efficiently to get high quality results.
Comment · 2 months ago
Same! Recently ported some code from httpx -> niquests and the experience has been good, although admittedly the governance of the project seems a little unclear.
I (ok, Qwen 3.7 27B) wrote some benchmarking code to compare throughput, and niquests seems to be substantially more performant for traffic that doesn't need to traverse the public web, e.g. intra cluster service to service communication:
https://gist.github.com/jtbaker/61061d27949ef48ac31e85ff28c2...
uv run scripts/bench_http.py --count 1000 Benchmarking 1000 requests to http://localhost:8000/health (concurrency=16, timeout=30.0s) Date: 2026-08-28T10:18:34.480111
Running httpx... Running httpx2... Running niquests...
Metric httpx httpx2 niquests ------------------------------------------------------- mean 17.8ms 4.6ms 3.3ms min 3.2ms 1.5ms 1.2ms max 632.4ms 11.1ms 10.8ms p50 15.9ms 4.2ms 3.0ms p95 32.4ms 7.4ms 5.6ms p99 52.1ms 8.5ms 8.4ms total 1.15s 315.5ms 239.7ms throughput 869.2 req/s 3170.0 req/s 4171.1 req/s
Winner: niquests (4.8x faster by wall clock)