Jacob E. Dawson

Build and ship Mac and iOS apps without ever opening Xcode, using XcodeGen and terminal scripts

Moving the goalposts as AI improves and we travel into the unknown

Adding self-hosted Mem0 memory to Hermes Agent with pgvector and Ollama, plus the footguns I hit along the way

Tokenmaxxing was deliberate, Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the Opus gap, Tyler Cowen on who wins and loses, AI diagnosis vs fixes, and Qwen 3.6 makes local dev practical

A walkthrough of setting up Nous Research's Hermes Agent on a Hetzner CX23 box — OpenRouter, Telegram gateway, Obsidian sync, cron jobs, and the skills that make it feel like home

GPT-5.6 lands with a government gate, open-weight models undercut frontier labs by 50x, why even the rich won't survive AI, and why your font-family stack is probably wrong

Saying goodbye to Tailwind, a 7-line programming language and TanStack plays compromise bingo

The silent information we pass on the net, a history of vi, and just use Go man

Github's demise, the societal effects of AI, and how we process the rich sludge that powers the globe

Claude degrades, don't outsource your thinking, and a lovely bit of concrete

Programming still sucks, OS rocks, Claude loses some lustre

The perils of laziness lost, Mythos or myth, and can you put OS X on a Wii?

Gemma 4 rocks, Claude open source leaked, and the machines will be fine, but what about us?

TypeScript 6 drops, how to slow down when everything is speeding up, Auto Mode for Claude and a new take on version control

We still need to code, LLM fatigue is upon us, maybe you don't need semicolons, and JS is still bloated!

A little dash of AI and a few updates from the world of Vim!

GPT 5.4 releases, who reviews the reviewers, and making a button in 2026

Tinkering on family dashboards, LLMs debating each other, and why writing code is cheap now

Some delicious split keyboards, another day another frontier LLM release, and a sprinkling of CSS

The overwhelming complexity of everything, another IDE I will eventually try again, and new models from Google & OpenAI