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• I built a CLI that turns several Kaggle accounts into one GPU cluster October 7, 2026

  Compute Pool is a Rust CLI with a Python training runtime. One command launches the whole cluster.

• One of nvm's shell functions just got ~140x faster September 28, 2026

  nvm_tree_contains_path() went from 16,274 ms to 115 ms for 50 calls, and from ~350 process forks to 0. Merged and released in nvm v0.40.8.

• 30% faster dataset validation in Soup September 15, 2026

  People training models on laptops just got 30% faster dataset validation on Soup. Shipped in v0.75.0.

• One small part of curl is now 36% faster September 11, 2026

  I optimized curl's Base64 decode lookup table and rewrote the loop. Bagder benchmarked it, committed it himself, and changed his mind about the approach.

• More bots than humans have been visiting my portfolio September 6, 2026

  It crossed 17K+ pageviews, so I checked who was visiting. Roughly 89% automated.

• Thank you, Sublime HQ. You made my childhood memorable September 4, 2026

  My first laptop had 4GB RAM and no GPU. Sublime Text is where I learned Python, HTML, JavaScript, PHP and OpenCV.

• 26.4K stars, and a little piece of my code is now part of colibri August 29, 2026

  A persistent scratch arena in colibri's DeepSeek V4 indexer: 0.1539 ms → 0.0006 ms per batch call. Released in v1.9.0.

• A better system around a small model beat a bigger model August 27, 2026

  60,000 controlled evaluations on 600 HotpotQA questions: LFM2-350M consistently outperformed LFM2-700M on Token F1. Paper under review.

• What if attention isn't all you need? August 14, 2026

  Hybrid models are asking how much of sequence modeling needs attention. HGDM is my attention-free experiment: 1.006B parameters, 1.46B training tokens.

• My first open-source contribution August 13, 2026

  An N+1 lookup in Windows-MCP's hot path, replaced with bulk coordinate resolution: 37-52% faster.

• AI memory needs to be more than a vector database August 12, 2026

  Why should two memories be the same just because they mean the same thing? That question became NCM.

• Two days, one buildathon, and an idea that resonated later August 3, 2026

  At the NxtWave × OpenAI Academy buildathon we built Orbius AI, with a multi-agent mode where several models work on one problem. Then llm-council arrived.

• Rebuilt my portfolio from scratch August 2, 2026

  React, TypeScript, Vite and Cloudflare Pages. Live GitHub stats, a research section, and a small Q&A widget.

• 50+ Rejections, 20 Years Old, and the Space Between Building and Prepping August 1, 2026

  Yesterday was my birthday. Ironically, I got an email from Google. Rejected. That pushes me past 50 off-campus rejections...