Blog | Arnold Wender

Benchmarking qwen3-coder locally building an Astro 6 site on MacBook Pro M4 Max

Ollama Local LLM qwen3-coder Astro 6 Claude Code AI Engineering Benchmark Apple Silicon

Benchmarking local qwen3-coder on an Astro 6 build on M4 Max — 4 model failures, not Mac failures

Honest benchmark: 64 GB unified memory, 40 GPU cores, qwen3-coder:30b on Ollama, Claude Code as the harness. The model confused Astro with Svelte, ignored an explicit STOP, and stalled 30 min on a single turn. Technical diagnosis + the real fixes.

26. Mai 2026 12 min read

Animated infographic for the Bienenatlas project — 11-hex municipality grid, four data-source stat callouts, and a data-flow diagram on a dark background

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Bienenatlas — from one farm in Mehrum to a platform for 121 German municipalities

How a single-farm bee dashboard for one beekeeper became a national Wildbienen portal with 134 indexable pages, 235 images, and four scientific data sources.

13. Mai 2026 11 min read

@wendermedia/astro-components v3.0 — Astro 6 migration and Wender Media Source License

Astro Astro 6 npm Tailwind 4 Storybook Open Source Licensing

astro-components v3.0 — Astro 6, Tailwind 4, new license

Major release of the component library: Astro 6 + Tailwind 4 + Storybook 10 + Wender Media Source License v1.0. The library vs site migration asymmetry.

8. Mai 2026 7 min read

iOS apps on TestFlight + NeuroBirds web-to-iOS port

iOS SwiftUI TestFlight NeuroBirds Game Dev App Store Connect

My first iOS apps are on TestFlight — and NeuroBirds is going mobile

After months of learning curve through SwiftUI, App Store Connect, signing, and TestFlight: my first iOS apps are in beta distribution. Plus NeuroBirds was ported from web to iOS — release within the next weeks.

8. Mai 2026 7 min read

Product Hunt Launch Icons Tools Open Source PWA iOS Android

Free Icon Generator — launching on Product Hunt

Upload an image, pick a format, download a ZIP — icon bundles for web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, PWA, and social media. All in the browser, no signup.

8. Mai 2026 6 min read

Model Release Form for photographers — KUG §22 + GDPR compliance with digital signature

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Model Release Form: legally sound consent system for photographers (KUG §22 + GDPR)

Trilingual model release form with digital signature, PDF email delivery, and compliance for German KUG §22 + GDPR Article 7. Built for my photography portfolio, on the way to becoming a standalone system for photographers.

27. April 2026 9 min read

Diagram showing a constitution.yaml feeding into a Python executor with a halt-on-reject gate

LLM Agents Python Claude Code Anthropic Policy Open Source

LLM Agents Do Not Respect Rules. This Pattern Makes Them.

Plan Mode reviews proposals, not execution. Reference implementation of the executor-side halt-on-reject pattern with Kustomize-style declarative rule merging.

25. April 2026 9 min read

MemPalace AI memory system with palace architecture and MCP tools

Open Source AI Python AI Memory Contributing

MemPalace: How Milla Jovovich Is Revolutionizing AI Memory

Milla Jovovich built MemPalace, an open-source AI memory system based on the ancient Method of Loci. My contributions as an active contributor.

10. April 2026 10 min read

@wendermedia/astro-components npm package with 150 components, terminal and Storybook

Astro npm Open Source Component Library Storybook Design System

astro-components v2.0 — 150 Components on npm

The Astro Component Library is now available as an open-source npm package. 150 components in 17 categories with a live Storybook to explore.

6. April 2026 10 min read

Quick start tutorial: 5 steps from npm install to a finished Astro page

Astro Tutorial npm Component Library Storybook

Set Up an Astro Project in 5 Minutes

Quick start tutorial: install Astro components, explore them in Storybook, and integrate into your project. From npm install to a finished page.

6. April 2026 9 min read

Live Music Coder IDE with code editor, audio waveform and visual node graph

Creative Coding Live Coding Strudel Tone.js Web Audio CodeMirror Electron Music IDE Open Source

Live Music Coder: Music IDE in the Browser and as Desktop App

Case study: A live coding IDE for music with 4 audio engines, 7 visualizers, 43 curated sessions, gamepad/MIDI input and Electron desktop app.

29. März 2026 10 min read

NeuroBirds browser game with 29 collectible birds and neural network visualization

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NeuroBirds: Building 29 Birds with Real Brains

Case study: A procedural browser game with neural networks, consciousness simulation, and Flappy Bird mechanics -- zero image files.

28. März 2026 8 min read