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

veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

sharadhr

$HOME, Not So Sweet $HOME

• Preface
• 1 What is $HOME to you?
• 2 Setup
  • 2.1 Linux
    • 2.1.1 $HOME
    • 2.1.2 Dot-files and dot-directories
    • 2.1.3 XDG Base Directories
• 2.1.4 xdg-user-dirs

adrienbrault

# Clone llama.cpp
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp

# Build it
make clean
LLAMA_METAL=1 make

# Download model
export MODEL=llama-2-13b-chat.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin

kylemcdonald

kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

rain-1

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

danopia

FROM hayd/alpine-deno:1.10.1
WORKDIR /src/app

ADD deps.ts ./
RUN ["deno", "cache", "deps.ts"]

ADD *.ts ./
RUN ["deno", "cache", "mod.ts"]

ENTRYPOINT ["deno", "run", "--unstable", "--allow-net", "--allow-hrtime", "--allow-env", "--cached-only", "--no-check", "mod.ts"]

akihikodaki

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice

NOTE: Time flies, and it's been almost five years(!) since I wrote this. Beaware the text below is now outdated (e.g., now Asahi Linux has graphics acceleration even better than this). The commands listed are up-to-date.

I bought M1 MacBook Air. It is the fastest computer I have, and I have been a GNOME/GNU/Linux user for long time. It is obvious conclusion that I need practical Linux desktop environment on Apple Silicon.

3n21c0

package main

import (
	"context"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"os/signal"