Notes on building, thinking, and shipping. A quiet corner of the internet where I publish long-form notes on software, design, and the work in between.
Moving oMLX's model library to an external SSD on a Mac mini, then letting Kopia take hourly deduplicated snapshots to a second drive — so 36 GB of local models restore in minutes instead of hours of re-downloading.
Wiring Claude Code to a fully local memory stack: oMLX serves the LLM and embeddings, pgvector stores the vectors, and the open-source mem0 MCP server glues it together over SSE.
A pragmatic walkthrough: install Hugo, scaffold a site, write three posts, and build a static bundle you can open in any browser.
How a small set of type and spacing tokens can hold up a whole site without ever needing a redesign.
Restraint, proximity, and the case for letting a 1px border do the work of a 24px blur.
A 20-minute primer on getting a static site from blank directory to something worth iterating on.
David Dai (戴炜)
