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Diko Ko

@dikoko.bsky.social

An engineer and producer. An ex-game dev / An aspiring indie game creator. Blog: https://www.invisiblefriends.net

58 Followers  |  74 Following  |  199 Posts  |  Joined: 08.01.2025
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Running OpenCode with Local LLMs on an M3 Ultra 512GB 1. Introduction

I’ve recently been experimenting with local LLMs and coding agents on my personal Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB of memory. It’s been an interesting process pulling the pieces together. medium.com/@diko/runnin...

08.02.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

κΈ€ 쀑간에 링크 μžˆμ§€μ•Šλ‚˜?… 유료λ₯Ό 봐주면 λ‚΄κ°€ λˆμ„ 벌 수 있음..

30.01.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using Python on Apple Silicon Macs in 2026 A few days ago, I happened to notice that not a few people are still reading an article I wrote almost three years ago about Python on…

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30.01.2026 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Playdate with Agents Over the year-end break, I ran a small personal experiment comparing two modern coding agent systemsβ€Šβ€”β€ŠGoogle’s Antigravity and opencode…

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12.01.2026 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Octopath Traveller 2 Speaking of the year-end, I had a surprisingly peaceful long vacation this time, since we didn’t go on any road trip. In the first half of the break, I dusted off my Steam Deck and finally dug into a ...

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11.01.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cirque du Soleil: ECHO The day after Christmas, we went to see the circus: Cirque du Soleil: ECHO. The venue was in very familiar territory: the parking lot of Oracle Park. The last time I saw Cirque du Soleil there was in...

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11.01.2026 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stanford Candlelight Service As a lapsed Catholic, I carried mixed feelings while visiting so many grand Catholic cathedrals during our recent Italy trip. It brought back my old emotions and an old ritual I had almost forgotten. ...

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11.01.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Holiday Lights at Filoli Filoli is my family’s favorite destination. I’ve already written about it more than once (especially in my previous post, Nightfall at Filoli). Among all their events, the Holiday Lights have become o...

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10.01.2026 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 8, Going Home I originally thought Day 7 would be the last post of this trip. But, as travel usually does, a few things happened on the way home that felt like they deserved their own chapter. For the first time s...

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04.01.2026 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 7, Milan The next and final city of our Italy trip was Milan. Interestingly, I’ve always preferred the name Milan to Milano. It would be probably because of Inter Milan and AC Milan, names I’ve been used to fo...

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04.01.2026 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 6, Venezia On the early morning of Day 6, we left the hotel while the city was still calm. Except for Rome, we had chosen all our hotels mainly for their locations, and in Firenze that paid off β€” it was only a f...

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03.01.2026 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 5, Firenze We got up early on Day 5. There was no breakfast service at the guesthouse, but we still had plenty of leftovers from the previous night’s steak dinner. And the room was equipped with a Nespresso-comp...

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02.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 4, Firenze On the morning of Day 4, we said goodbye to Rome and headed to Firenze (Florence). I know it is Florence in English, but for some reason, I have to prefer its Italian nameβ€”Firenze. Firenze has been my...

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30.12.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 3, Vatican The third day took us to another countryβ€”the Vatican, technically speaking, even though it sits inside Rome. Earlier this year, I had spent a lot of time playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Th...

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27.12.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 2, Rome The second day started with rain, exactly as forecast. After the long walk on Day 1, Day 2 felt much more relaxed, thanks to two guided tours we had booked in advance. The morning began with a Segway...

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24.12.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanksgiving 2025: Day 1, Rome Thanksgiving road trips (mostly various US National Parks) have been my family’s annual ritual for years. But this year, we decided to do something different: visiting Italy. My daughter is a high-sc...

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18.12.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Diko's Theorem This blog hasn’t been very technical lately (it’s been mostly travel notes and personal reflections), but a topic resurfaced recently, and I wanted to put it down before it fadesβ€”It's just hours befor...

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22.11.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Swing to the Fences A few weeks ago, I renewed my Giants Flex membership. I originally thought it auto-renewed, but apparently it didn’t β€” until someone from the Giants called and nudged me. During the renewal process, I...

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22.11.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nightfall at Filoli Filoli has always been one of my family’s go-to weekend stroll spots. The elegant historic house, the manicured gardens with seasonal flowers, and the quiet trails through ranch-style countryside alwa...

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17.11.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time and Again Our last Salle's book club pick was Time and Again by Jack Finney. We picked it because in the afterword of 11/22/63, Stephen King called it a great time-travel novelβ€”even saying he wanted to dedicate...

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03.11.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The End of the 2025 Season Now, officially, the baseball season is over. The result wasn’t what I NEVER wanted β€” the Dodgers won the World Series two years in a row. As a Giants fan, I was really frustrated watching yesterday’...

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03.11.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fleet Week SF 2025 Fleet Week has always been a yearly ritual for my family β€” though, honestly, not always a smooth one. In 2022, I learned the name of San Francisco’s true nemesis: Karl the Fog. 2023 was a little bette...

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26.10.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Seventeen World Tour in U.S. Speaking of LAFC β€” I actually visited their home, BMO Stadium, last Friday. But this time, it wasn’t for a soccer match. It was for the K-pop boy band Seventeen's concert. My daughter had declared th...

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22.10.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Earthquakes vs LAFC On a Saturday last month (precisely September 13, 2025), my family headed to Levi’s Stadium β€” not for a 49ers game or a concert, but for something completely different: an MLS match featuring the San ...

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20.10.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Speaking at K-PAI: A 30,000-Foot View of the Online Advertising Ecosystem I recently had the pleasure of speaking at theΒ K-PAI event, sharingΒ an architectural overview of the online advertising ecosystemΒ β€” from publishers and SSPs to exchanges, DSPs, and advertisers β€” and h...

Spoke at K-PAI on the architecture of the online advertising ecosystem β€” how AI/ML now power every layer, from publishers to advertisers. www.invisiblefriends.net/speaking-at-...

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17.10.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SF Giants 2025 Today marks the saddest day of the year: the final game of the Giants’ season. Once again, October baseball slips away, and the journey ends here. Last year, I shared how much I enjoyed the $1,000 Fl...

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29.09.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Expedition 33 Let me just say it straight. "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" is the best game I’ve played since "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." When the game was first announced, it caught attention not jus...

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28.09.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vintage Computer Festival 2025 As I mentioned in my previous post about Ultima IV, my first personal computer was an Apple II+ (replica). The Apple IIe and II GS were my dream machines growing up β€” the ones I never got to own. So, ...

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15.09.2025 06:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LA 2025 Last month, we took a summer family trip to Los Angeles. The highlight was a two-day visit to Universal Studios β€” but we packed a few other stops along the way too. Right before we headed to the stay...

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30.08.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ν† μŠ€ ν”Όν”Œ: 50μ‚΄, μ—”μ§€λ‹ˆμ–΄λ‘œ μ‚΄μ•„λ‚¨λŠ” 법 90λ…„λŒ€ κ²Œμž„ 개발자둜 μ‹œμž‘ν•΄, κΈ€λ‘œλ²Œ νšŒμ‚¬μ™€ 창업을 거쳐 Toss USA에 ν•©λ₯˜ν•˜μ‹  Dikoλ‹˜μ˜ 이야기λ₯Ό λ“€λ €λ“œλ €μš”.

My story (sorry, only in Korean) toss.tech/article/toss...

28.08.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0