#Building Things

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A MacBook close-up under purple and blue lighting, with the overlay text "Built it, nobody else had, Fan control for the M5 Max" in white on navy.

I bought a £6,700 M5 Max (128GB RAM, 4TB SSD) and immediately had to build its fan control

How a single hour with a new M5 Max and an MLX inference job sent me down a thirty-six-hour rabbit hole that ended with a custom fan-control daemon, a CFRunLoop power-event monitor, and the discovery of a macOS daemon Apple does not want you to know about.

20 May 202611 min read

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A server room with cable bundles in coloured loops, under a navy tint, with the overlay text "Field-engineer reporting, The PDF feature Adobe forgot to kill" in white.

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Two YouTube videos, one PDF feature Adobe forgot to kill, and a field-engineer reporting system that actually works

I needed to give a UPS maintenance firm a reporting tool that worked offline, in a data-centre basement, on a laptop with no signal. The answer was a feature buried in Adobe Acrobat’s JavaScript API that has, I checked, exactly two YouTube videos explaining it.

20 May 202610 min read

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