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Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
My terminal-native setup for parallel coding agents
How I use Ghostty, Git worktrees, Herdr, hunk, Tailscale, and Heeler to run, review, and remotely manage parallel coding agents.
Django: introducing django-mcpz, for making MCP servers - Adam Johnson
I made another package! Say hello to django-mcpz, for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in your Django project.
Blog | Tristan Kernan - Django: Simple Streaming
“That some of us should venture to embark on a synthesis of facts and theories, albeit with second-hand and incomplete knowledge of some of them – and at the risk of making fools of ourselves” (Erwin Schrödinger)
Burnout by the Kindness of Agents
AI might gain total control and destroy humanity one day, but I worry it’ll burn me out far earlier than that. When I read the online discourse about AI-native work, it sounds like commentary on extreme sports performed by superhumans. I get the impression ev…
Design System Scalability Made iPhone Duo Possible
Apple arrived years late to foldables. iPhone Duo still looks like a product-design win because the design system was already scaling across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — so most apps were ready before the hardware existed. Top-tier hardware is the price of admissio…
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloaded the dataset and am now thoroughly nerd-sniped. Hackers …
Hosting your vibecoded slop safely
How I deploy my vibecoded apps on my own servers with k3s, GitOps and Cloudflare Zero Trust — private by default, with shareable links and preview URLs.
Why does the universe expand?
A story about the main reasons I now think the universe expands because collapsed matter must continue as an expanding cosmology, the expansion is the collapse read from the other side, and the rat…
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
...or how to make Qwen learn query optimization via agentic reinforcement learning
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about recently is the engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Here are the key requirements it’s designed to meet: Store …
Backups aren't simple
Aleksandar Filipovski, 2026-09-16
Small Programming Tricks
A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.
Inference Is the Last LLM Moat
OpenAI and Anthropic’s moat for developers is subsidized inference, meaning reliable, fast, Western-hosted access to running models at an affordable monthly price. If that breaks, I think they will…
I built another Mac app
Personal Musings and Transcripts
Summer
Updating EV Mileage on my Website through Home Assistant - home automation
'Updating EV Mileage on my Website through Home Assistant' written by davepermen
Notifications on high CO2 - home automation
'Notifications on high CO2' written by davepermen
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately depicts what was captured by the iPhone's camera sensor. Appl…
We wanted to use Baseten for inference. We ended up with admin access to Baseten GitHub repos - Strix
We gave Strix a domain. In 25 minutes, it found a live token with admin access to Baseten's product, deployment, and CLI repos in a public Docker image.
I Came, I Prompted, I Left Part 2: Building a GPU Driver From Scratch in One Month — Cody Ho
Personal website of Cody Ho
Jev means structured output is interesting again
I don’t write blog posts about new models. That’s Simon Willison’s beat, and he’s very good at it. But I want to write about Jev, which is a different kind of…
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.