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Field notes and long reads

Notes from the rabbit holes that produced something useful.

Data-rich visual essays, practical field notes, and enough detail to repeat the interesting parts.

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Essay · 2026

The fastest local-LLM upgrade was remembering

Retesting Qwen3.8-27B on an M4 Max: an SSD prefix cache cut a 91-second wait to 1.09 seconds while several attractive optimizations lost.

02
Essay · 2026

Tuning Qwen3.8-27B on a 64GB M4 Max

Benchmarks and practical settings for Qwen3.8-27B 4-bit, DFlash2, long context, compression, and Flash-Next on Apple Silicon.

03
Essay · 2026

Wesley's Adventures

A visual companion to Ni Kuang's 145-book sci-fi series characters, relationships, four decades.

04
Essay · 2026

Phantom × Les Miz

Two musicals, one stage door. Performers who crossed between The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables every credit sourced.

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Essay · 2026

杉田智和 - A Connections Map

Voice actor Sugita Tomokazu and the people he's specifically attached to the Magnet Combi, 12 years of Anigera, the juniors he keeps adopting. Sourced.

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Essay · 2026

Phantom - Productions & Cast

Every named principal across thirteen productions of The Phantom of the Opera, with year ranges and sources.