John W. Little
@johnwlittle.com
Formerly: Blogs of War / Covert Contact Podcast
Exploring how AI and emerging technologies transform national security, intelligence tradecraft, and our cultural landscape. Relapsed #audiophile and #vinyl acquirer.
Blog: https://johnwlittle.com
Exploring how AI and emerging technologies transform national security, intelligence tradecraft, and our cultural landscape. Relapsed #audiophile and #vinyl acquirer.
Blog: https://johnwlittle.com
Did you launch a simple web server?
June 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Did you launch a simple web server?
Beefing up my AI log assistant tool. It proactively alerts me to system issues and I can chat with it about the activities of my various agents.
June 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Beefing up my AI log assistant tool. It proactively alerts me to system issues and I can chat with it about the activities of my various agents.
The platform I'm building generates a ton of log entries so I created a custom model and script that runs in terminal and updates me, informally, on the system status every 5 minutes. I can ask it questions about the logs as well.
June 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The platform I'm building generates a ton of log entries so I created a custom model and script that runs in terminal and updates me, informally, on the system status every 5 minutes. I can ask it questions about the logs as well.
The Mac Studio M3 Ultra cranking away in the middle of a multi agent process that takes several minutes to execute. Power consumption is 🤏
June 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Mac Studio M3 Ultra cranking away in the middle of a multi agent process that takes several minutes to execute. Power consumption is 🤏
Testing agents this morning.
May 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Testing agents this morning.
Running granite3.3:8b with the full context window available: num_ctx=131072 vs the default of 4096
May 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Running granite3.3:8b with the full context window available: num_ctx=131072 vs the default of 4096
Things just got serious.
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Things just got serious.
Made the menu for toggling model flags much more dynamic. It activates automatically for Qwen3 models and can be toggled on for other models if desired.
May 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Made the menu for toggling model flags much more dynamic. It activates automatically for Qwen3 models and can be toggled on for other models if desired.
Qwen3:14b is pretty impressive so I added the ability to toggle several of its output modes to Model Deck. It also deactivates thinking by default when it loads the model. The output for that mode is a bit much for a lot of use cases.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Qwen3:14b is pretty impressive so I added the ability to toggle several of its output modes to Model Deck. It also deactivates thinking by default when it loads the model. The output for that mode is a bit much for a lot of use cases.
johnwlittle.com/model-deck-a...
johnwlittle.com/model-deck-a...
Model Deck: A Streamlined Single-File Interface for Ollama LLM Management johnwlittle.com/model-deck-a...
May 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Model Deck: A Streamlined Single-File Interface for Ollama LLM Management johnwlittle.com/model-deck-a...
Added the ability to pull new models via the API and cleaner display of the current model info.
May 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Added the ability to pull new models via the API and cleaner display of the current model info.
Working on building a web front end for Ollama - allows for really fast switching between local models I'm working on.
May 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Working on building a web front end for Ollama - allows for really fast switching between local models I'm working on.
Green Day's Bad Year blimp hitting particularly hard this year. #coachella
April 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Green Day's Bad Year blimp hitting particularly hard this year. #coachella
Gemma3 27b running at at just under 2 tokens per second. Not quite usable but better than expected on old hardware.
April 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Gemma3 27b running at at just under 2 tokens per second. Not quite usable but better than expected on old hardware.
"So I made my peace with whoever I trust
And shut my eyes and turn to dust
I know I know I know
I ain't walking away"
youtu.be/Y5pWlAAnUFQ
And shut my eyes and turn to dust
I know I know I know
I ain't walking away"
youtu.be/Y5pWlAAnUFQ
March 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"So I made my peace with whoever I trust
And shut my eyes and turn to dust
I know I know I know
I ain't walking away"
youtu.be/Y5pWlAAnUFQ
And shut my eyes and turn to dust
I know I know I know
I ain't walking away"
youtu.be/Y5pWlAAnUFQ
March 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“You cannot doubt the existence of hell. You live in it.”
March 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
“You cannot doubt the existence of hell. You live in it.”
Le Bureau des Légendes...
March 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Le Bureau des Légendes...