greenstevester

April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon)

Prerequisites

• Mac mini with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5)
• At least 16GB unified memory for Gemma 4 (default 8B)
• macOS with Homebrew installed

burkeholland

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

• Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
• Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

burkeholland

description	4.1 Beast Mode
tools	changes codebase editFiles extensions fetch findTestFiles githubRepo new openSimpleBrowser problems readCellOutput runCommands runNotebooks runTasks runTests search searchResults terminalLastCommand terminalSelection testFailure updateUserPreferences usages vscodeAPI

Beast Mode v3 is out now: 👉 https://gist.github.com/burkeholland/88af0249c4b6aff3820bf37898c8bacf

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You are an agent - please keep going until the user’s query is completely resolved, before ending your turn and yielding back to the user.

lisawolderiksen

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

dndhm

import React, { Component } from 'react';

import FruitContext from './FruitContext';
import FruityComponent from './FruityComponent';

export class App extends Component {
  state = {
    fruit: 'apple',
  }

sj26

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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jmacqueen

A basic Grunt configuration for working with the Bones Wordpress Starter theme. To be expanded! Compiles and compresses Sass and uses rsync to update the local installation of Wordpress for testing so I can keep my MAMP installation free of extraneous files...and simply FTP over the final result if it checks out without putting uneccessary node_modules or .scss files on the server by mistake. This was pretty much put together because I kept mistakenly FTPing over my .sass-cache files like an idiot.

For this to work, the theme in development lives in 'src' inside the project directory so node_modules, .sass-cache, gruntfile.js, package.json and src are all together in the top-level directory.

project folder
  .sass-cache
  gruntfile.js
  node_modules
 package.json

nilium

[
  {
    "keys": ["ctrl+w"],
    "command": "run_multiple",
    "args": {
      "commands": [
        {"command": "find_under_expand", "args": null, "context": "window"},
        {"command": "show_panel", "args": {"panel": "find"}, "context": "window"}
      ]
    }