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My laptop has a ~/projects folder. Most of it is a graveyard. Not because the ideas were bad — I’d still build some of them if I sat down today. They’re dead because I get excited by a technical problem, work on it for two weekends, hit the part that stops being fun, and drift to the next thing. The codebase stays. The git log doesn’t. I’m 40, a Cloud Architect with ~18 years across IBM and AWS, and I have ADHD. Diagnosed late, lived with it longer. The pattern above isn’t laziness — it’s a specific shape of attention. Hyperfocus until the dopamine of novelty runs out, then gravitational pull toward whatever’s next. Anyone with this wiring recognizes the feeling: the moment a project transitions from “fun problem” to “ten unsexy decisions in a row,” part of your brain leaves the room. ...

Apple Silicon vs IBM POWER8: A Tale of Two Architectures Running LLMs in 2026 Last week I published benchmarks of running Qwen 2.5 7B on a 2016 IBM POWER8. The results were surprisingly good — 6.81 tokens/s on CPU-only inference with 80 threads hammering away. But then came the inevitable question: How does it compare to modern hardware? So I ran the same benchmarks on my daily driver: a Mac Studio with Apple M2 Max. Same model (Qwen 2.5 7B Q4_K_M), same quantization, different decade. Here’s what I found. ...

You Need a .NET SDK to Build a .NET SDK That’s the first thing you learn when you try to compile .NET from source. It’s a beautifully circular problem — like needing a car to drive to the dealership where you’re buying your first car. Microsoft ships pre-built SDKs for x86_64, ARM64, and s390x. But POWER? IBM’s legendary architecture that runs half the world’s banking systems? Sorry — you’re on your own. ...