A quick introduction to Nim, and an announcement of two desktop products I started in Nim — Nimino, a Tauri-like lightweight WebView app framework, and Nimculus, a Zed-like GPU-native code editor.

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Jul 17, 2026

Finding a Local Japanese LLM That's Good at Writing Blog Posts

I picked one local Japanese LLM to write this blog, from the ones that run on my M3 MacBook Air (24GB). Here are the results of comparing them on long-form Japanese quality, plus the exact Ollama API calls and the prompts I used.

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Jul 15, 2026

Even So, I'm Building Alopex DB

SQLite, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, distributed DBs, vector DBs, graph DBs — there is no shortage of great products. I'm building a new database anyway because every time the project moves forward, I re-pick the DB and rebuild the data itself. Alopex DB aims to be a foundation that keeps data's volume, conversion time, regeneration cost, and provenance intact as you scale from local to cloud, from single node to distributed.

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