ZaneH's Blog

Over the last few months, I’ve traded my keyboard for a pen, paper, and calculator to self-study maths.

In Q4 2025, Anthropic released Opus 4.5, a generative AI model that was relatively expensive to use but noticeably better than anything that came before it.

Sometime in late 2024, I switched from Neovim to Emacs.

I’ve been using Linux for over 10 years now (sheesh) and only in the last year did I find the distro of my dreams.

Learn the Hard Things For me, that was Rust.

The Background It all started one fateful August day.

Was reading through Hacker News when I saw “We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours”.

In 2022, I was having fun with Automatic1111.

Why would you… First question I have to answer is why it’s worth spending money on another computer.

Overview In this post, I’ll break down how I used Unsloth’s repo for dataset preparation and fine-tuning Llama3.

Juggling Deployments A couple months ago I was hosting a Discord bot1 and a DB on a PaaS (Platform as a Service) and the platform gave me $5 to host my first app, but for every app after was another $5 per month and that’s not accounting for persistent vo…

Nearly every time I install Windows, it turns into a chicken and egg problem.

OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 is good enough for me most of the time, but I am hesitant of the costs.

Recently I built a Discord game called DaFarmz.

Game Dev Woes Creating a game as an independent developer can be an incredibly daunting task.

I still remember when I first started learning to program, I had no clue what I was doing!

Every now and again I start a project that really speaks to me.

I just setup 2 new Macs and I thought I’d share my must-have apps for macOS.

I’ve cropped & enhanced them slightly.

I cannot stop talking about Copilot and the-likes.

Regular expressions was my first “Aha!”

Recently I’ve been using Next.js zones for everything.

I’ve spent a lot of time with web scrapers over the years.

Processing is pretty cool.

A What?

If you’ve decided to venture into tweak development for your jailbroken iDevice, you’ve probably noticed that you can create an actual iOS application through NIC.pl.

In the C, C++, and Objective-C communities, many people talk about how terrible macros are.

If you catch yourself doing anything more than once in programming it’s a sign.

What Does Hacking iOS Mean?