Dominic Hopton

@grork
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Person, collection of elements producing something less than the sum of its parts. (Opinions are mine, and do not represent those of my employer)

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Websitehttps://codevoid.net
Bloghttps://codevoid.net/ruminations
GitHubhttps://github.com/grork
Storyvoid Apphttps://storyvoid.app
Dominic Hopton5h ago
Am I tripping, or did the compact tab bar in Safari change radically in iPadOS 26.4?
Dominic Hopton3d ago

Another step towards (good) local models? Combined with the recent reporting (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/18/llm-in-a-flash/) around “memory mapping good actually” for getting chonky boi models on small devices, it feels like we’re getting closer.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/

Autoresearching Apple’s “LLM in a Flash” to run Qwen 397B locally

Here's a fascinating piece of research by Dan Woods, who managed to get a custom version of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B running at 5.5+ tokens/second on a 48GB MacBook Pro M3 Max despite …

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Dominic Hopton5d ago
Why don’t we call them Kaijucorps rather than mega corps?
Dominic Hopton5d ago
Grant Me Strength5d ago

What lunatic has two thumbs and added a top-trumps style game to an app about retro CPUs?

https://testflight.apple.com/join/e3nSMedK

If it the game beta isn’t on TestFlight now, it will be soon.

Show threadDominic HoptonMar 21
He reminds me when you come across a software engineer who isn’t over confident, and can just bang out great code all the time. Sometimes pushes it a bit close to the sun, and people don’t know how to push back properly.
Dominic HoptonMar 21
Me, 2021, on Max Verstappen: Pfft. Crashstappen is a valid name.
Me, 2022-2024, on Max: He’s good, but… he knows people are scared
Me, 2025, on Max: A Goat. He’s on another level
Me, 2026, on Max: can he be in every racing series? dudes got skills.
Dominic HoptonMar 20
Why don’t the LLM harnesses that support MCP slap jq in front of the MCP response? Some of the MCPs are *very* verbose (looking at you Jira), and allowing the model to filter the response before it enters the context window would be very useful
Dominic HoptonMar 17

Some Ungrads are looking into the impact of social media education on the Gut Biome & Colorectal cancer. Why don’t your take a look, and see if you want to take their survey!

More info: https://www.instagram.com/thedigestiondivas/
Survey Link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bathreg/gut-microbiome-and-colorectal-cancer

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Dominic HoptonMar 14
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 13
Tempted to write a post that software development lost the plot a long time ago, and that the recent LLM developments are merely the icing on that cake. Software these days is not the painstaking work by people like @bagder or @hyc or @vitaut who write the best code they possibly can. Over the past decade, "the software world" has been developing in a very different way than that.
Dominic HoptonMar 11
Khaos TianMar 11
We are now onto the stage where just because you can build something doesn't mean you should ship it 🤞