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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

THIS IS OUTDATED. PLEASE FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING LINK

Basic nflscrapR tutorial

I get a lot of questions about how to get nflscrapR up and running. This guide is intended to help new users build interesting tables or charts from the ground up, taking the raw nflscrapR data.

Quick word if you're new to programming: all of this is happening in R. Obviously, you need to install R on your computer to do any of this. Make sure you save what you're doing in a script (in R, File --> New script) so you can save your work and run multiple lines of code at once. To run code from a script, highlight what you want, right click, and select Run line. As you go through your R journey, you might get stuck and have to google a bunch of things, but that's totally okay and normal. That's how I wrote this thing!

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

console.log wrap resolving for your wrapped console logs

I've heard this before:

What I really get frustrated by is that I cannot wrap console.* and preserve line numbers

We enabled this in Chrome DevTools via blackboxing a bit ago.

If you blackbox the script file the contains the console log wrapper, the script location shown in the console will be corrected to the original source file and line number. Click, and the full source is looking longingly into your eyes.

TLDR: a React component should either manage its own state, or expose a callback so that its parent can. But never both.

Sometimes our first impulse is for a component to entirely manage its own state. Consider this simple theater seating picker that has a letter for a row, and a number for a seat. Clicking the buttons to increment each value is hardly the height of user-interface design, but never mind - that's how it works:

/* @flow */
var React = require('react');

var Letter: React.ReactClass = React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function(): any {

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

Overview

This collection of files serves as a simple static demonstration of how to post to a google spreadsheet from an external html <form> following the example by Martin Hawksey

Depreciation Warning: This code is not maintained, and should be seen as reference implementation only. If you're looking to add features or update, fork the code and update as needed.

Run example

You should be able to just open index.html in your browser and test locally.

How to connect PS3 controller to a Mac or PC

This is how you connect PS3 controller to Mac OSX, PC, etc. when previously connected to a PS3. You will need a Mini USB cable. Overcome your laziness, get up of your chair, and go get one!

A big misconception is that keep holding PS button will reset the controller's pairing. It DOES NOT! From my testings, the controller keeps paring with the last machine it was CONNECTED VIA A USB CABLE.

Here are the steps:

	// How to persist the React Redux state store to the browser's localStorage
	// Code taken from Dan Abramov's video
	// https://egghead.io/lessons/javascript-redux-persisting-the-state-to-the-local-storage

	/**
	localStorage.js
	*/
	export const loadState = () => {
	try {
	const serializedState = localStorage.getItem('state');

	# Make sure you grab the latest version
	curl -OL https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v3.2.0/protoc-3.2.0-linux-x86_64.zip

	# Unzip
	unzip protoc-3.2.0-linux-x86_64.zip -d protoc3

	# Move protoc to /usr/local/bin/
	sudo mv protoc3/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

	# Move protoc3/include to /usr/local/include/