greenstevester

April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon)

Prerequisites

• Mac mini with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5)
• At least 16GB unified memory for Gemma 4 (default 8B)
• macOS with Homebrew installed

Wowfunhappy

The Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks download script is now hosted on Mavericks Forever. To download Mavericks, open a Terminal on any Mac and run:

curl mavericksforever.com/get.sh | sh

Or, navigate directly to mavericksforever.com/get.sh to read what the script does.

macshome

// This playground shows you a few different ways to get device info via IOKit.
// If you want to explore IOKit and look for interesting data I would download
// the Additional Developer Tools from Apple and use the IORegistryExplorer app.
// It makes it super easy to poke around in the IOKit planes.

import IOKit
import Foundation

// For convient access we can make a computed getter for the PlatformExpert.
// Traditionally this has been where you go to find all sorts of data about the

ole

#!/bin/zsh

# Test if the Swift compiler knows about a particular language feature.
#
# Usage:
#
#     swift-has-feature [--swift SWIFT_PATH] [--language-version LANGUAGE_VERSION] FEATURE
#
# The feature should be an upcoming or experimental language feature,
# such as `"StrictConcurrency"` or `"ExistentialAny"`.

kylehowells

import UIKit    

extension UIResponder {
    private weak static var _currentFirstResponder: UIResponder? = nil
    
    public static var current: UIResponder? {
        UIResponder._currentFirstResponder = nil
        UIApplication.shared.sendAction(#selector(findFirstResponder(sender:)), to: nil, from: nil, for: nil)
        return UIResponder._currentFirstResponder
    }

krzyzanowskim

/// Wait for async operation to return value and call callback with the value
/// This class is intended to workaround/simplify async/await + actors isolation
/// https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1523233140914876416
private class AsyncWaiter<T> {
    var didReceiveValue: Bool = false
    let value: (T) -> Void
    let operation: () async throws -> T

    init(_ value: @escaping (T) -> Void, operation: @escaping () async throws -> T) {
        self.value = value

lukaskubanek

/// MIT License
///
/// Copyright (c) 2021 Lukas Kubanek, Structured Path GmbH
///
/// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
/// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
/// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
/// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
/// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
/// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

ZPascal

require "formula"
require_relative "lib/private_strategy"

class Hoge < Formula
  homepage "https://github.com/yourcompany/hoge"
  url "https://github.com/yourcompany/hoge/releases/download/v0.1.0/hoge_v0.1.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz", :using => GitHubPrivateRepositoryReleaseDownloadStrategy
  sha256 "6de411ff3e4b1658a413dd6181fcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
  head "https://github.com/yourcompany/hoge.git"
  version "0.1.0"

malhal

// Requirements: a NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription entry in Info.plist
// Usage:  @State var locator = CLLocationManager.publishLocation()
//           and
//         .onReceive(locator) { location in
// Improvements needed: Move requestWhenInUseAuthorization into its own publisher and perhaps have a combineLatest pipeline for both authorized and valid location.
//                      A configuration param to init(), e.g. so each manager can have the same distanceFilter.
    
import Foundation
import Combine
import CoreLocation

sharplet

// Copyright (c) 2019–25 Adam Sharp and thoughtbot, inc.
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in