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

chrisbranson

# the man page for tmutil
man tmutil

# calculate drift on backups (cpu / io intensive)
tmutil calculatedrift backup_folder

# list backups
tmutil listbackups

# set backup destination 

kennwhite

Setting up VS Code and Golang with debug & build flag (-tags foo) support

This is the setup that worked for me after half a day of hacking around and chasing rabbit holes down old forum posts and open & closed Github issues.

Problem: While Go integration with VS Code is pretty slick in general, I needed to pass compile-time build flags, e.g., -tags foo[^1] to go build and go run directives, and I wanted to be able to properly debug with breakpoints etc. While there are some promising tutorials out there like this on Digital Ocean and on Log Rocket it turned out that one of the first things they both say to do is add the Delve extension to VS Code,

slawekzachcial

This Gist is based on Self Signed Certificate with Custom Root CA gist.

It adds the use of AWS KMS to generate and decrypt the Root CA private key, so that this key does not need to be stored in plaintext. Instead, the key is stored encrypted, and is being decrypted using AWS KMS only when needed.

Create AWS KMS CMK - Done Once

Create symmetic CMK (customer-managed key) and give it an alias of alias/root-ca-encrypting-key that will be used later to reference to it:

dvf

If you're using a high-end bluetooth headset on your Macbook Pro it's likely your mac is using an audio codec which favors battery efficiency over high quality. This results in a drastic degradation of sound, the SBC codec is the likely culprit, read more about it here.

Find out what codec you're using

1. Play a song on your headphones
2. Option (⌥) click the Bluetooth button at the top of your screen
3. If you're using AAC or aptX, you can stop here—those are the highest quality codecs.

Change your codec to AAC or aptX

dongri

#!/bin/sh

sudo ps aux | grep Netskope | grep -v grep | awk '{ print "kill -9", $2 }' | sudo sh
echo '[✓] Kill Netskope Process'

sudo rm -rf /Applications/Remove\ Netskope\ Client.app
echo '[✓] Removed Remove Netskope Client.app'

sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Netskope
echo '[✓] Removed Agent of Netskope Client.app'

atotto

package main

import (
	"context"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"os/signal"
	"syscall"

strazzere

#!/usr/bin/env python
# fsck secneo

from __future__ import print_function
from unicorn import *
from unicorn.arm_const import *
from capstone import *
import binascii

DEBUG = False

HyperBrain

Serverless plugin author's cheat sheet

This cheat sheet provides a detailed overview of the exposed lifecycle events and available commands (and entrypoints) of the Serverless framework, that can be hooked by plugins (internal and external ones). The document is structured by the commands invoked by the user.

Lifecycle events are shown as the globally available outer events (all providers) and sub lifecycle events that are provider specific in the called order. Currently only the AWS provider is shown. If you have information about the other provider,

jimbert

# fix the fucking touch bar
# Stick this in your zshrc or bash_profile and call it when
# basic computer controls stop working for no good reason.
function ftftb {
  pkill "Touch Bar agent"
  killall ControlStrip
}