Used Claude to whip up a script to dump some info I needed from our Jamf server via API. Will definitely be doing this kind of thing more in the future- next week in fact, when I need to do the equivalent query on the Windows side. I shudder to think how long this would have taken if I didn't automate this.

Finally realized that some of the knowledge base use cases I was considering for Hermes-Agent can be achieved with a local llm and my modest hardware if I ditch the framework and directly script it.

Curious to see if Villa bounces back against Forest in the Europa League semi-finals today. Not enough to tune in, but I'll follow on Fotmob.

Still kind of blown away by the kinds of exchanges that I can have with Claude. Had a good one about basketball slang origins.

Granite 4.1:8b is kind of dumb on general knowledge questions, but it's still decently performant on low end Apple hardware. I'll probably try hooking it up to Hermes-Agent later this week.

IBM's Granite 4.1:8b local model is interesting because it doesn't have a thinking loop like the comparably sized Qwen and Gemma models (I believe you can turn thinking off for those models) so it gives pretty fast responses.

Got up, did a quick watering pass on the front yard, and then went over it with the weed and feed. Annoyingly the suggested spreader value was too high for my spreader and dispensed faster than expected until I realized halfway through and dialed it back. One $30 bag should cover our entire yard, not just the front.

M4 Mac mini's now start at 16GB - 512GB for $799 due to high chip demand and manufacturing constraints. Bummer that you simply can't get a $599 one any more.

Heh, Chelsea got smoked 3-1 by Forest's B team. Looks like the relegation battle is well and truly between Spurs and West Ham alone at this point with 3 games to go.

Building air quality at work is dank and dusty again this morning just like when we started having AC issues last August. It was fine last week so I wonder what changed.

AV 1-2 TOT fT
Disappointing to give up the late goal at the end of stoppage time, but I'll take it because Spurs are back out of the relegation zone!

AV 0-2 TOT HT
Unexpectedly great first half from Spurs at Villa. Connor Gallaher opened the scoring with a brilliant strike from outside the box, and then Richy finished off a brilliant cross from Tel. Outstanding pressing and possession from Spurs kept Villa from threatening at all.

Thought I had an okay Prismari deck yesterday, and completely bombed out with an 0-3. Draft 6 is Quandrix and off to an okay 2-0 start, even though I'm fairly skeptical of this deck being any good.

7-2 in draft number 4 with my Silverquill deck. Enjoying this set quite a bit so far!

Realized last night that aiville (my local model testbed), though functional, was under some serious memory pressure due to some minor MLX/Ternary-Bonsai-8B-mlx-2bit bugs compounding over time. Got things sorted out again, but putting that model aside and sticking with ollama-hosted ones for now.

I heard that For All Mankind has been renewed for a sixth and final season. I think that's perfect as it will bring their timeline up to the present day era and hopefully allow for a satisfying conclusion to a pretty epic series.

Doing some terminal tweaking with Claude's help. Config setting font-thicken = true is a huge Ghostty lifesaver for my old eyes that I didn't know about. Now working on the shell itself and adding starship to give my prompt a glowup.

For All Mankind S5E6: No Sudden Moves 👍👍 Tense episode that sets up the big Earth - Mars conflict of the season. Boyd and Miles team up as the voices of reason, but despite their efforts, it looks like Earth and the M6 are just going to drop the hammer. Kind of funny that the Space Marine team Earth is going to ship there have a couple of potential Mars sympathizers.

Started watering in the front yard, but the hose picked up a couple of major leaks over the winter, so I used it to water a couple of smaller spots at the same time as my main targets.

Apple's timing on the Neo is pretty stellar from a work perspective. With basic Windows PC laptop prices rising and easily more than double the Neo, we're going to be directing a lot more of our users who just need a basic laptop toward the Neo.

I can see from the 1989-90 GSL season program how the issue started. Shadle Park won the league, but in a major mistake were also entered again on the 2-14 line instead of Ferris (completely missing). NC was the actual 5-11 team above Ferris. I think in subsequent years, as time passed, 5-11 just seemed more reasonable to people for a bad Ferris team, and NC completely got the shaft; they just kept reusing it and adding the last season.

I was looking through my collection of GSL programs from my dad's coaching era and found a glaring error that went unfixed across multiple years and programs. My sophomore year (1989-90 season), we went 2-14 in the GSL, only beating Rogers twice, yet the GSL records page shows us at 5-11. That's the kind of detail that my dad usually cared about getting right, so I'm fairly surprised he never got that cleared up in subsequent years.

Off to a 5-1 start, the first time I've drafted Silverquill this set. Practiced Offense is the truth.

Beautiful day today and excited to not have any soccer practice to go to after work. Plenty of stuff to do around the house and yard though instead.

Early practice for J so she can do team pictures beforehand. Trying to pick a podcast to listen to while I wait.