Universal Bits

Local inference lets me run agentic workflows on sensitive data (e.g., financial or health records) while keeping both the computation and the data offline.

I have written at length about containers and VMs on this blog: I use them daily to segregate work, contain rogue AI agents, and defend against supply-chain attacks.

With the majority of content now being generated by AI, it’s more important than ever to be writing without it.

The recently released Qwen3.5 family advances the capabilities of open-weights multi-modal models: rumors are they’re exceptionally good for their size.

I recently upgraded my home network to gigabit internet provided by O2, the low-cost brand of Movistar Spain.

We have talked about using NixOS to run VMs under ChromeOS.

Nick Huber, in “The Sweaty Startup”, writes that sales is the foundation of every business.

Baguette 🥖 allows running VM images in ChromeOS.

Understanding the world requires seeking good explanations, not fooling oneself, and figuring out why things truly happen.

I used to prefer web-apps to their native equivalents, especially if the “native” one is just wrapping a browser anyway (e.g., through Electron).

Last weekend I went kayaking on the Ardèche river, in southern France.