Reposted by MarkChris Arter @arter.dev · 10hBurn this chart in your brain for the next time you even feel remotely guilty about cutting out a little early or asking for a fair wage. 041
Mark @denovich.com · 06/10/2026New Ui: “Export video from Frigate cam1 at 10:23p to 10:25.“ 🔥tokens🔥 mp4 in my Downloads. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 05/10/2026I opened the window expecting this baby opossum (one of 3) but she was completely unfazed and looked like she was going to climb in. First photo blurry due to night mode. 031
Mark @denovich.com · 03/10/2026$50 of pot roast, ah yeah! (Costco chuck roasts are enormous.)youtu.be240 Dollars Worth Of PuddinYouTube video by Cool80sand90s 100
Mark @denovich.com · 01/10/2026Claude configuring ESP32 devices FTW. In 5 min I went from removing the board from the anti-static bag, to having it post battery/charging/solar data from my van via BT and posting it via MQTT to HomeAssistant. 210
Mark @denovich.com · 30/09/2026Using Qwen 3.8 Flash Next 2-bit with DwarfStar4 as the inference engine classifying and providing enhanced captions for all the photos in my library (118k). Going to take about 8 days flat out running on my M3 Max 128GB MBP which amounts to about <$1 of electricity. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 30/09/2026First time I’ve ever hurt my back like this before. I was bouldering and fell from about 10’ above the mat, landing on my feet. I didn’t feel anything at the time. Noticed a little stiffness towards the end of the session. After an hour of sleep I woke up and almost couldn’t get out of bed. 100
Mark @denovich.com · 30/09/2026By chance I happened to have my phone unlocked as I got to the gym and it started a workout. So not completely useless, just mostly. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 30/09/2026OS27 broke my “start workout” automation when I arrive at the gym. Fine, 2hrs and $99 later I’m an Apple Developer, testing an iOS/WatchOS app that does the same thing… And fails in the same way 😭 020
Mark @denovich.com · 29/09/2026I lack the imagination/bandwidth to fully utilize my Anthropic 5x Max plan. 010
Mark @denovich.com · 24/09/2026Unfortunately, no relation as the line ran out long before my relatives came to be: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejanov...en.wikipedia.orgDejanović noble family - Wikipedia 000
Mark @denovich.com · 24/09/20267h55m of sleep. A new high score. And I stayed asleep for 4 hours after going to bed. Haven’t done that in years. Please be a trend and not an outlier. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 24/09/2026Slept from 12a-4a, that’s the longest stretch I’ve been asleep in probably 6 months, maybe longer. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 24/09/2026The family history on my father’s side didn’t extend past about 1910. With Fable’s help and many sessions digging I have hard evidence for Dejanoviči as far back as 1725. They were free peasants who got their land in exchange for hereditary military service. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 21/09/2026Fable is doing amazing detective work tracing my roots. My last name has been spelled 7 different ways over the years. Same with my grandfather’s first name. Hooray for computers. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 21/09/2026We have a trio of baby opossums that started showing up recently. They a very cute. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 19/09/2026I tested Bonsai 2 27B on a 128GB M3 Max... slow as or slower than Qwen 3.8 27B Q8 (prefill is painful on dense models on a Apple silicon) as the performance drops off significantly with increasing context length. Most damning, non-thinking performance was significantly worse. 100
Mark @denovich.com · 19/09/2026Apple how did you manage to ship iOS 27 with obviously broken automations. Can’t start a workout automatically. Worse is how unhelpful the error message is: “This action could not be run with the current user interface” 100
Mark @denovich.com · 18/09/2026Something stinky (dead) outside but I haven’t been able to smell my way to the source. I have the unfortunate feeling it will be easier to find tomorrow. 100
Mark @denovich.com · 16/09/2026OS27 on Apple TV has somehow fucked up the audio output. Any time a video is played there is a -25% chance that the audio output clips, adding a crackling/clicky noise. Restarting the video seems to fix it. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 15/09/2026Started using the issue tracking functionality of my self-hosted Gitea sever. It finally dawned on me that my own projects were getting too big / too numerous for me to track with Markdown files. Should have done it sooner. I think Claude loves it. 010
Mark @denovich.com · 12/09/2026I love a good thunderstorm, but that lightning was a bit intense. My ears are ringing. There were about a dozen very close cloud to ground strikes. 001
Mark @denovich.com · 07/09/2026Van camping with my daughter: She gets warm, piles all the covers on me. I wake up on fire, turn off heater. She get cold, steals all the covers. I wake up freezing and turn on the heater. Repeat 001
Mark @denovich.com · 06/09/2026Doing software development on my phone, stream-side in God’s Country (Potter County, PA). What a time to be alive. (Can easily see the Milky Way) 020
Mark @denovich.com · 04/09/2026Spent 1h20m pressure washing bee poop off the van. Adderall is a helluva drug. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 04/09/2026TIL: Pressure washing a rug is even more satisfying IRL than watching someone do it on YouTube. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 02/09/2026Lasted 20min. 😂 I don’t normally burn through my 5hr quotas as I’m in the loop. But managed to do it with Fable 5.1 in 1.5 rounds. 010
Mark @denovich.com · 01/09/2026Had Fable add my wife’s account to the 2100+ albums. She’s getting an email notification per album. 😂 010
Mark @denovich.com · 01/09/2026145k photos in Immich after dedupe. The mini PC host has a few days of grinding to do on thumbnails, previews and transcodes. Offloading the ML tasks to my M3 Max. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 01/09/2026My two Apple TimeCapsules are probably my oldest still in use tech purchases. They’ve been powered on 24/7 for > 16 years. They just work. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 31/08/2026Photo organization/backup/curation is well under way. >250k photos in Lightroom, iCloud (all family accounts) + Flickr and Google. All hashed cross-referenced, metadata coalesced, deduped, organized and made viewable via Immich. I put Fable to work on the weekends to get the most out of my quota. 220
Mark @denovich.com · 29/08/2026Fable just diagnosed and fixed an Intel graphics issue on my 2012 Mac Mini that caused it to hang every 7 days or so due to running semi-headless (connected to my Denon amp). It wrote a watchdog that puts the display to sleep/wakes it whenever the bug happens. Problem solved. 120
Mark @denovich.com · 26/08/2026I unexpectedly sat on my foot. From a height of about 12’. Toe straight into the mat, full weight on the heel. I walked it off. But at 5am it’s rather painful. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 25/08/2026People love telling me who I look like. I almost knew this was coming when I saw myself in the Teams call. Saw this in the chat afterwards. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 21/08/2026Just took a screenshot of an app and used the text recognition to select-copy the text the app wouldn’t let me select What a time to be alive! 000
Mark @denovich.com · 21/08/2026Give Fable some work to do. Later I hear the fans on my mac. I never hear the fans on my mac. 100
Mark @denovich.com · 16/08/2026These movements are maddeningly difficult to coordinateyoutube.comIf at first you don’t succeed… #boulderingYouTube video by Mark Denovich 000
Mark @denovich.com · 16/08/2026Proxmox 8.3->9.2 for my 3 node cluster is complete. Grub managed to waste 200k tokens, but only on the first node. Opus ran the show. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 16/08/2026Opus: “doing the NUT dance” Me: lmao. Second session that used the same phrase to describe having to disable the ups monitoring (via NUT) on 2 of my Proxmox nodes when the primary node (with the USB->UPS cable attached) goes off line, so they don’t shut themselves down. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 11/08/2026I’m not sure if protein powder and creatinine do anything for me except gross me out if not well mixed. But at least I’ve solved that problem. Rechargeable milk frothers (I got one from Typhur) mix well and most importantly are trivial to clean (in contrast to a mixing bottle that you shake). 000
Mark @denovich.com · 11/08/2026I just knew it was going to go sideways when Fable used the term exfiltrate in the title of a task. “Yo, ixnay on the ackinghay…” 000
Mark @denovich.com · 10/08/2026Special needs chicken enjoying her new surrogate mom (a feather duster). She’s afraid to be in with the other chickens. (She’s half the size of her siblings and mom is done being a mom.) 000
Mark @denovich.com · 10/08/2026Trying to get some of the lawn taken care of before the rain. It’s so humid that it might as well be. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 09/08/2026Wife and daughter did quite well at their ballroom dance competition. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 08/08/20263 showers, 4 batteries and most of a Hardcore History with Dan Carlin episode later, I am done with yard work (for today). Time for a well deserved nap. 000
Mark @denovich.com · 30/07/20262^24 tokens and what do you get? A summary you didn’t read and technical debt. Saint Peter don’t you call me, I can’t go… I owe my soul to the API store 000
