17. Running Local LLMs Offline on a Ten-Hour Flight (deploy.live)

I flew from London to Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas. Ten hours with no in-flight wifi. I used the time to test how far a modern MacBook can carry engineering work on local LLMs alone.
Setup A week old MacBook Pro M5 Max, 128GB unified memory, 40-core GPU.
Gemma 4 31B and Qwen 4.6 36B via LM Studio.
Top 100 most common docker images, top programming languages alongside with enough dependencies to build function sites with rich visualisations.

24. Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus-mac.org)

Notepad++ for Mac is a free, open-source, native macOS code editor. Universal Binary for Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs. No Wine, no Rosetta, no emulation.

28. Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good (routerjockey.com)

Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again.
iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. HomeKit forgot the kitchen …

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