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View All Courses →Mastering Astryx
13 lessonsMaster Astryx, an open-source design system built on StyleX. Learn core design primitives, layout engines, token systems, and construct a full production-ready modular Kanban board application step by step.
Build an AI Agent in Typescript
8 lessonsLearn the fundamentals of building your own CLI-based AI coding agent from scratch using Typescript, Ollama, and ai-sdk. From bash and structured file tools to subagents and persistent memory. Then onto a TUI and a skills system for loading new agentic capabilities.
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JEV: The Unusual AI Model I Think Could Be Really Useful in Real Applications
its not an LLM...
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Adventures in LoRA Training
training a thing is... fun
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MLX Engine Benchmark Showdown
Benchmarking MLX-based inference engines
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Hot take: I don't care about 100×ing my workflow
The hype is exhausting
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What We Didn't Learn from Walter Pitts
Burn the dissertation
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Apple's Built-in LLM Sucks, Mostly
good at one thing...
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only-cli
Simplify your AI developer workflow with OnlyCLI, a free, open-source CLI tool that drastically reduces token costs by extracting clean content from websites. Unlike paid API services or complex MCP setups, this tool offers 87% token savings for local inference on Apple Silicon, making it essential for efficient agent integration and coding automation.
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Nativ
Turn your Mac into a complete local MLX multi-modal studio with Nativ, the new open-source app from the creator of mlx-vlm
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Orca
Orca by Stably bridges the gap between visual inspection and code generation, automatically creating isolated Git worktrees, applying UI fixes, and pushing clean Pull Requests to GitHub without breaking your existing workflow.
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Skillsgate
Stop digging through scattered agent and project directories to manage your AI tools. SkillsGate unifies skill discovery, installation, and editing into a single desktop interface, making local AI management on Mac effortless.
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LlamaForge
Stop wrestling with complex model configuration files for local AI on your Mac. Llama Forge simplifies your entire LLM setup by syncing directly with llama.cpp, giving you a visual interface to manage GGUF models, tweak every parameter, and run your LLM router without touching a single line of code.
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freebuff
Ditch expensive subscriptions for a powerful, free AI coding agent that works directly in your terminal and desktop environment. Freebuff offers a full-featured coding assistant with access to top-tier models like GPT and Claude alternatives, making it an ideal replacement for Cursor or Claude Code for developers seeking a no-cost solution. This review explores its beta desktop client, CLI capabilities, and how it balances premium AI access with an ad-supported model.
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