Writing on Thoughts of Mike

Image Encoders

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been slowly trying to add more of my photography to this site over the last few weeks. I spent a few hours over the weekend adding images to folders and getting things organized. Most of my photography is digital, with a handful of film scans as well. And they take a variety of sizes and aspect ratios. To keep the hosting costs under control, I figured I would crop and resize the images I was adding so they’d be a more uniform size. And in the process, I went overboard and ended up making them too small to be useful. And they were all renamed by that point.

Local LLM

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been posting a lot about my Daft Punk project, and one of the things that I’ve been relying quite heavily on is local large language models for coding assistance. It’s one of those things that I thought would be interesting to play with, and ended up actually being kind of useful. I really do think that these kinds of models are going to play a really big role in the future of AI assisted software development and last week’s announcements by Apple about their M5 chips, combined with large scale outages of services like Claude code make me increasingly convinced that local language models aren’t going anywhere. It’s really amazing what you can accomplish with an open source model that you’ve downloaded for free from the Internet.

Hello, World

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first post. But there’s plenty more to come.