Artificial Intelligence
How to install and tune oMLX on M5 Max 128 GB
Tested May 2026 recipe: oMLX 0.3.8 on Mac M5 Max with 128 GB, TurboQuant at 3.5-bit, Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B model stack, Claude Code wiring and real benchmarks.
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Artificial Intelligence
Deploy Llama 3.3 and Mistral locally with Ollama and Open WebUI on Ubuntu 24.04
Ollama 0.5 or newer runs Llama 3.3 70B and Mistral Large 2 locally on Ubuntu 24.04: Q4_K_M quantization lets a single NVIDIA GPU with 24 GB of VRAM, an RTX 4090 for example, handle the full model. This guide installs the drivers, sets up Open WebUI, and exposes the service behind Traefik with TLS.
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Apple M4 Pro on developer machines: real-world experience
I have spent six months using a MacBook Pro with M4 Pro as my main development machine. I lay out what has genuinely changed versus the previous M2 Pro, where the jump is noticeable, and where the investment is not justified if you already own a recent machine.