Patrick Socha

@psocha.co.uk

Previously software engineer in cyber security, now in private market intelligence. Follow my Hacker News bot: @hnfeed.bsky.social

If you use LLMs for building out your website, get it to write out a style guide, and components. Saves your website looking like a random collection of bits you threw together.

37% of new heavy trucks sold in China: now fully electric. Not delivery vans — 49-tonne heavy-duty rigs. This one swapped ~550 kWh in just 5 mins. Competitive, proven & inevitable. China's heavy EV truck sales surged 182% YoY in 2025, rising from single digits just two years ago.

Read that putting your mac into low power mode if you run local models seriously cuts down the heat - and it does! Able to run Qwen3.6:35b A3B Coder without heat issues!

Devops tip: if stability is a primary concern, pin your docker images in your compose file. I discovered that Traefik 2 is breaking change to Traefik 3.

Writing an ai driven tool to create me to do items based on unstructured data. Was wondering why my data classification was trash, switched to DeepSeek and wow… instantly fixed. I see why the markets freaked out when it was released.

Started using OrbStack rather than Docker Desktop, and Zed rather than Goland (which I pay for). Both are significantly lighter on resources, even as I run a 64gb machine.

If you have a Macbook Pro with > 32gb ram, you're welcome: alias openclaude='OLLAMA_BACKEND=mlx ollama launch claude --model qwen3.5:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4'