Structured notes on physics, history, and engineering.https://blog.gary.info/https://blog.gary.info/posts/the-cheapest-token-is-the-one-you-never-send/https://blog.gary.info/posts/the-cheapest-token-is-the-one-you-never-send/Deterministic detectors find architectural signals in seconds -- then the LLM classifies a small batch instead of exploring the entire repo.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/awesome-go-packages/https://blog.gary.info/posts/awesome-go-packages/The Go packages that win in production are boring, stdlib-adjacent, and let you ship without reading a migration guide every six months.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/inside-docker-cagent-technical-walkthrough/https://blog.gary.info/posts/inside-docker-cagent-technical-walkthrough/Docker cagent turns agent design into YAML, executes it in a Go runtime, and ships it through OCI registries -- trading open-ended framework flexibility for repeatable operations.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/pathogens-dont-check-your-bank-balance/https://blog.gary.info/posts/pathogens-dont-check-your-bank-balance/Universal healthcare is infrastructure, not charity -- and treating it as optional is epidemiological negligence disguised as fiscal responsibility.Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/philosopher-who-saw-matrix/https://blog.gary.info/posts/philosopher-who-saw-matrix/Epicurus solved the meaning crisis 2,300 years ago with four lines and a garden -- and modern psychology keeps proving him right.Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/sqlite-lying-concurrent-writes/https://blog.gary.info/posts/sqlite-lying-concurrent-writes/WAL mode does not make concurrent SQLite writes safe. The only reliable fix is architectural: one writer process, writes submitted through a queue.Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/go-from-a-php-programmer/https://blog.gary.info/posts/go-from-a-php-programmer/Switching from PHP to Go is not a syntax change -- it is a mental model change across error handling, types, interfaces, and concurrency.Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/mlx-lm-local-llms-apple-silicon/https://blog.gary.info/posts/mlx-lm-local-llms-apple-silicon/MLX is Apple's array framework for ML on Apple silicon -- unified memory, lazy evaluation, and composable transforms that make running and fine-tuning LLMs on a Mac practical.Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/mlx-lm-taskfile/https://blog.gary.info/posts/mlx-lm-taskfile/A single Taskfile.yml that wraps every mlx-lm operation -- install, download, generate, fine-tune, fuse, and export -- into named tasks with configurable defaults.Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gary.info/posts/detect-objects-with-php/https://blog.gary.info/posts/detect-objects-with-php/Run a pre-trained COCO object detector in pure PHP using php-onnxruntime -- no Python sidecar, no network call, no microservice boundary.Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT