Chris Dzombak

I spent some time yesterday getting the new Qwen 3.6 27B model running locally on a (solar-powered) machine with dual RTX 3090 GPUs.

A glaring shortcoming of GitHub's web UI is that it's not possible to create a Git tag without creating a corresponding release.

At work I have recently started using an Ubuntu Linux desktop for dev work sometimes, and so I've needed to find Linux equivalents for some tools I use on macOS.

This quick post aims to give you some ideas of things to try if you’re new to Claude Code (or a similar coding agent, like Codex).

My partner and I recently returned from a trip to Sanibel Island, Florida — a welcome break from winter in Michigan.

From experiment and from real-world use, I’ve seen a number of things help reduce those risks and keep the “AI” on the rails. • Working in smaller steps • Testing after every step • Reviewing code after every step • Refactoring code as soon as problems ap…

I have an IP webcam pointed at my bird bath.

Getting professional-quality results while using an LLM for programming is possible, but it takes practice and most of the same skills it takes to write professional-quality code.

By now most anyone who follows Apple news will have heard about Paris Buttfield-Addison's saga, wherein redeeming a legitimately-purchased Apple gift card led directly to his Apple account being locked and his access to all his data — including a multi-te…

As software engineers we don’t just crank out code—in fact these days you could argue that’s what the LLMs are for.

It's not news that many tech companies are encouraging or even requiring use of LLM coding tools like Claude Code.

I'm happy to introduce two new tools for working with Plex media libraries.

Simon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon Willison Anyone who follows my public bookmarks (visible on my homepage, at Raindrop.io, via RSS, or on Mastodon) will have noticed over the past few months quite a number of links from Simon Willison's…

RustRover recently began warning me that it failed to load my shell environment at startup.

This post follows up on my post about getting good results from Claude Code.