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Working notes on tools and data.
Native engineering, local-first data, and giving AI access to real systems without giving away control. Written while it is still fresh enough to be useful.
IoT Data Flow Core Is Now Certified Research
The BSFZ has certified IoT Data Flow Core as in-house R&D for 2026. What the research is actually about, and why a one-person business applies.
Read post →How Fresh Blends Made Its Fleet Answerable
A read-only data box turned a large, distributed beverage fleet into something Fresh Blends can ask in plain language, from predictive maintenance to cleaning compliance. Here is what it changed.
Read post →MCP Just Got Boring, and That Is Good News
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol release drops sessions, hardens authorization, and adds a deprecation policy. Here is what that means if you buy software.
Read post →SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers for Low-Latency App Servers
How I tune SQLite for production app servers: WAL mechanics, checkpoint scheduling, busy handlers, connection topology, and when a custom VFS is worth it.
Read post →Two Kinds of Data Sovereignty
A sovereign AI knowledge platform and a fleet data box both promise sovereignty. They mean two different things by it, residency and isolation, and only one of them fits a machine fleet.
Read post →A Local LLM Coding Stack for macOS (16 GB, Apple Silicon)
A re-runnable setup for running local LLMs alongside Claude Code on a 16 GB Apple Silicon Mac. Ollama, Continue for VS Code, Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B for code, Gemma 4 e4b for chat.
Read post →How I Got a Dear ImGui App Approved on the Mac App Store
A technical deep-dive into shipping a C++ / ImGui desktop app through Apple's review process. Code signing, static linking, sandboxing, and everything that broke along the way.
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