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Inspo
Shall we play a game?
A meticulous recreation of the terminal fonts from the 1983 film WarGames, manually transcribed from on-screen character bitmaps across nuclear silo terminals, David Lightman’s IMSAI 8080, and NORAD control room displays. Michael Walden spent nearly 18 years perfecting this digital archaeology project, creating TTF/OTF/WOFF fonts from the STB Systems S-100 video card output, complete with raster scanline variants and the exact blue-on-black CRT color scheme (#8AD2FF on #262324).
llmfit — Hardware-Aware LLM Model Recommendation
A terminal tool that right-sizes language models to your actual hardware constraints—detecting RAM, CPU, GPU specs and scoring hundreds of models across quality, speed, fit, and context dimensions. Ships with an interactive TUI that auto-selects the best quantization for your system, supports multi-GPU setups and MoE architectures, estimates token throughput from memory bandwidth, and integrates with Ollama/llama.cpp/MLX for one-command downloads. Particularly clever: it inverts the analysis with “Plan mode” to estimate what hardware you’d need to run a specific model config, complete with upgrade deltas.
https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit
oMLX — Squid for LLMs
A macOS-native MLX inference server that solves the KV cache invalidation problem plaguing coding agents. While Ollama and LM Studio cache in memory and recompute from scratch when context shifts (which happens constantly mid-session), oMLX persists every cache block to SSD in safetensors format with LRU eviction. Previously seen prefixes restore from disk in milliseconds instead of 30-90 seconds of recomputation. The result: Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Cursor respond in under 5 seconds from the second turn, not a minute-plus wait. Two-tier hot/cold architecture, continuous batching for 4× throughput at 8× concurrency, multi-model serving with automatic eviction, drop-in OpenAI + Anthropic API compatibility. Works with your existing LM Studio model directory—no re-download needed. The caching proxy model applied to LLM inference, finally making local AI on Apple Silicon feel responsive instead of glacial.
TB-303 From Scratch — Everybody Needs a 303
A deep-dive tutorial on building the legendary Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer from the ground up. The 303 was a commercial failure when released in 1981—a “bass accompaniment” machine nobody wanted—until Chicago and Detroit producers discovered that cranking the resonance and tweaking the accent patterns produced that squelchy, hypnotic acid bassline that defined house and techno. Phuture’s “Acid Tracks” (1987) birthed an entire genre from one misunderstood box. This tutorial walks through the circuit design, oscillator architecture, and the filter topology that made those sounds possible, for anyone who wants to understand what made the 303 accidentally revolutionary. Whether you’re building hardware or coding a software emulation, everybody needs a 303.
https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/tb303-from-scratch
Daily
Homeostatic Pressure — Generative Modular Ambient
Meditative generative ambient built from modular synthesis, OP-1 textures, tape loops, and TP-7 field recordings. The kind of sonic drift that makes time dissolve—layers of evolving tones that never quite settle, always shifting beneath the surface. Perfect for deep focus or late-night ambient listening when you need sound that breathes with you rather than demanding attention.
Today’s vibes
Madeline Goldstein — Seed Of Doubt
Haunting indie-folk that plants uncertainty deep in your chest. Goldstein’s voice floats between whisper and confession, like catching fragments of someone’s internal monologue through thin walls. The kind of song that makes late-night introspection feel inevitable.
Loscil — Coasts
A ten-minute drift through submerged sonic topography—Scott Morgan’s ambient techno at its most patient and tectonic. Coasts unfolds in slow-motion layers of processed field recordings and glacial synth pads, the kind of track that rewards stillness. From the Faults, Coasts, Lines series exploring Pacific Northwest geological formations through sound, this piece captures the liminal space where land dissolves into ocean, where tidal rhythms blur into drone. Time stretches; borders erode.
GusGus, AFFKT — Simple Tuesday - AFFKT Remix
A hypnotic electronic meditation that stretches out like late afternoon shadows. AFFKT’s remix transforms GusGus into something both crystalline and warm, pulsing with patient, measured energy that feels like watching light move across walls.