Bits By Me

Hi, I’m Dylan. I write about operations, engineering, tools, and things I’m learning.

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Cookie-free analytics with GoatCounter on Hugo til
The two Hugo template gates that keep dev-server pageviews out of production analytics.
Up and running with Pi til
Instructions and tips for getting the pi.dev agent harness running on a Mac with 8GB of RAM.
Tooling to build learning micro-sites til
Train My Brain is a Claude Code plugin that builds micro-sites for personal learning. Have an esoteric learning need? Spin up a site—modules, exercises, and a glossary, served locally and ready …
Markdown to PDF on Mac til
How to convert a Markdown file to a PDF with pleasant fonts and great footnotes using pandoc and TeX.
Bookend agents for product quality blog
Claude kept apologizing for skipping my expectation-based testing rules…and then skipping then again 2 minutes later. This is how I replaced best-effort written instructions with two …
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Technology Is Not the Change You Are Managing blog
AI is the technology change of the moment, and like every technology change before it, the technology is not the change being managed. This piece treats ADKAR—Prosci’s five-gate model of …
Interpret LLM Model Size til
How to interpret the numbers used to describe LLMs.
Up and running with Pi til
Instructions and tips for getting the pi.dev agent harness running on a Mac with 8GB of RAM.
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