Hmm, I'm still feeling it out, but it appears to plan more and ask if it is good, which is a huge improvement over Gemini 3 and behavior more consistent with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Gemini 3 Pro was a significant regression, put plain and simply. It was a bad release. I'm hoping Gemini 3.1 Pro just does not generally rush to code, that was just the worst part of Gemini 3.

So far so good.

I bought their $200 a year plan, their Pro plan. Anthropic's Claude has come a long way. 3.5 was super good, but Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 dwarfed that model. Unmistakably, Gemini was the best hands on, but their regression with recent Gemini models caused me to re-evaluate Claude. Claude's up to 4.5 well, 4.6 Opus (Maybe I'll try it) and Sonnet is really really good.

I've blogged before about my frustration with Gemini on how it just jumps to coding while in discussion, it's terrible and very bad regressi...

rzmq is now on 0.5.13 available on crates.io. This release adds an option to disable automatic delimiter for dealer/router sockets for interoperability purposes, it was a request.

0.5.12 migrated the io-uring implementation to use a "framer" pattern to encapsulate common operations and share code between the regular socket actor and io-uring. It's faster and more efficient.

rzmq's throughput is quite amazing really. I tested, with io-uring and TCP CORK enabled, 200k/responses per second on my Framework Laptop...

Gemini 2.5 Pro is better overall. 2.5 Pro March 2025 remains king. Gemini 3 is a step forward in some ways reasoning wise and a giant step back in following instructions. Just fighting too much with this garbage of a LLM. Rushes to code. Hell they even started lowering rate limits. Annoying, move to Claude or ChatGPT.

Gemini doesn't have the same "oooh lala" anymore. Total shitshow by Google, but it was inevitable. This is exactly the kind of shit that causes people to ask less questions in order to find an...

Gemini 2.5 Pro March 2025 was the peak of Gemini. Ever since that, it's gone down hill. Somewhere around Summer '25 it regained some of that intelligence, but since Gemini 3 Pro Preview... yikes. Gemini 3 Pro is just not generally smart, it is so specialized and trash. You have to give it so much steering and explicitly tell it forcefully to stop going in a direction worse than any Gemini I have used.

It's really f**king annoying that they turned it into a coding LLM. That's not what the first 2.5 Pro was. T...

I've been super focused on Hi Stakes and wanted to give another update on the world of Hi Stakes Game. The core simulation I talked about last time, the one that ticks on its own with economies that boom and bust, has continued to evolve. It's becoming more dynamic, more unpredictable and now it's ready for a new layer of strategy. This update is about two major features that bring players deeper into that living world: Contracts and Derivatives.

These aren't just new buttons to press; they're systems design...

It’s been a while since I’ve written a proper update, but this feels like the right time.
Hi Stakes Market Game is finally coming together and I’m aiming to have a beta available this November for both iPhone and Android.

At its core, it’s a game about markets but not just the charts-and-numbers kind. It’s about how economies move, how risk turns into opportunity, and how every boom has a bust hiding in it. The world inside Hi Stakes is alive: it grows, crashes, rebuilds, and surprises me even while I’m de...

For a while now, I've been working on a personal project that's been both a massive challenge and an incredible learning experience: a distributed, fault-tolerant database built from the ground up in Rust. I've been calling it SSK CASPAXOS DB, and I wanted to share some of the core ideas behind its design, the problems I tried to solve, and the cool features that have emerged from it.

No, it is not open source, I will be using it in my upcoming projects as I would have had to build some of these into the pro...

Framework Laptop Site: https://frame.work/

I turned on my Dell XPS today that I bought refurbed in 2021 and it just kept blanking out or displaying some scrambled crap on the screen. I tried turn on and turn off, but that didn't work. Utter trash, It lasted 4 years for me? I think it was the processor that broke down (INTEL!!!!) more than anything else. I extracted the SSD and 32GB Ram from it and trashed the laptop. I decided to buy another Framework to replace it.

I previously bought a Framework laptop to r...

Link: https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/audio-expression

Microsoft just released a ground breaking Text To Speech (TTS) model and I'm super impressed by how crisp it sounds. It's not robotic at all and can express a variety of styles.

I used it to generate some announcement/marketing audio, that I can't say I will use in the future, but definitely helps guide the direction of what expressions I want to have in a advertisement.

I was initially confused at why it was saying a bunch of things when I put in "Hi" ...