Technology

Photo by Imagine Buddy on Unsplash The bug bytes again; Beneath the hood, the hidden Sparks begin to run. From Digger to DeepSeek: A quest for a local AI model It was June 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had just wrapped up the Moscow Summit, Steve Jobs was fueling intense industry rumors with his upcoming NeXT workstation, and Tim Berners-Lee was quietly circulating the first informal notes at CERN for what would become the World Wide Web. On the radio, Michael Jackson was dominating the summer charts as “Dirty Diana” became his record-breaking fifth consecutive number-one single from Bad. Meanwhile, Russia was prepping the launch of its ill-fated Phobos 1 Mars Orbiter, and I was an 8-year-old in Paris getting the bug — the desire to build my own computer. ...

Photo by Micah & Sammie Chaffin on Unsplash Pin drops in the road You apologize again The gap grows wider. The Last 10 Feet Decline doesn’t announce itself dramatically. Rot sets in slowly; a little less care, a little more friction. I wrote this post last year, days after returning from a trip to Singapore and India. The 7-year gap where I sequestered myself to North America made my visit to Asia stark! It felt like an alternate reality — one with a functional approach to adopting technology into life. It is almost as if they still care about how the human experience. ...

Code waits patient, Dreams gather digital dust— Until machines learn. We all have them—that long list of projects, ideas, and tasks that are left incomplete. Like a cluttered kitchen drawer ignored until you wedge the oversized scissors between the back and the roof of the cabinet, we leave piles of neglected items in the wake of our busy lives. There is a special kind of mental malaise that comes from carrying around ideas and tasks, relegating them to purgatory. That app concept left unfinished just after you figured out how to add 1,700 dependencies to your React app and spent eight hours learning the nuances of MVVM. The data analysis you meant to complete to dispel misinformation spouted by Elon about who did meaningful work based on the number of lines of code committed. The project around the house you need to do every year, but can’t be done because you don’t have the time to do the required research. These orphaned possibilities accumulate over the years. And I have a very long list. ...