Think Different by Jakub Jirák: latest posts
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The Future of Home Computing: One Quiet Mac Instead of Five Devices
An in-depth analysis of the home tech consolidation trend—from Mac mini to all-in-one servers. What we gain and what we lose irreversibly in the process.
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Claude Code: Checkpointing long sessions to protect yourself from context rot
A field-tested take on checkpointing long sessions to protect yourself from context rot with Claude Code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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The History of Cargo Insurance in Maritime Commerce
The history of cargo insurance is the history of how merchants solved the problem of concentrating catastrophic risk in individual voyages by distributing it across pools of capital. Without that solution, long-distance commerce would have remained restricted to actors wealthy enough to absorb total loss — which meant it would have remained small.
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The Physics of Transformer Inference: Why Attention Is the Enemy of Efficiency
The attention mechanism in transformer models is quadratically expensive to compute. Here's the physics of why, and how the industry is escaping the quadratic trap.
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The Best Travel Kit for Apple Users: One Bag, Every Charger
A travel kit guide for Apple users: one GaN charger for everything, the right cables, AirTags for luggage, plug adapters, and an airline-safe backup battery.
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Mac Studio for video editing: when Ultra makes sense
A research guide to Mac Studio for video editing: M5 Max versus Ultra, task-level benchmark evidence, media engines, proxies and a complete storage route.
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Orange Pi 4 Pro 12 GB: a quiet arm64 test farm for apps and containers
A practical review of the Orange Pi 4 Pro with 12 GB of LPDDR5 as a homelab test farm: the A733's big and little cores, NVMe and PoE, a Docker-based CI and preview-environment setup with a diagram, thermals and power, building a custom image with orangepi-build, software caveats, pricing and who should buy it.
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Saal Digital Professional Line: the photo book that finally takes printing photos seriously
A practical review of the Saal Digital Professional Line photo book covering FUJIFILM Crystal Archive paper, layflat binding, acrylic and brushed metal covers, XT pages, glossy, matte and silk finishes, ICC soft proofing, the design software, the premium gift box, prices in the Czech Republic and who it is for.
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Wurkkos HD02 Mini: four lights, one rotary switch and a battery you can buy at a petrol station
A practical review of the Wurkkos HD02 Mini EDC tool light covering its spot, flood, red and 90 CRI wing channels, the rotary selector and lockout, 14500 and AA runtimes, USB-C charging, clip, magnet and tripod mount, known firmware quirks, price and who should buy it.
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Wurkkos TS11 V2: the pocket thrower that gave up 400 lumens and got better for it
A practical review of the Wurkkos TS11 V2 pocket thrower covering the SFT40 emitter, the switch from a FET to a constant-current buck driver, Anduril 2.0, RGB auxiliary LEDs, 18350 and 18650 runtimes, build, price and who should buy it.
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How to Make Money with Affiliate Without Running an Affiliate Blog
Learn how to integrate affiliate income into your content without turning your platform into a review mill. Subtle monetization that respects your.
