#mlx

2 posts

192.0.2.64 Kept Freezing After Login — the Trail Ended at a Port Collision on 16GB

Two Mac minis headed for Apple MLX distributed inference both froze after SSH login. The hunt crossed an mDNSResponder reverse-DNS stall, a WiFi wake-latency bug with a fix that only half-worked, a Thunderbolt/RDMA detour — and ended with two forgotten background inference servers squatting on the e

mlx

From One Mac to a Desk-Sized AI Cluster: Running LLMs with MLX (WWDC25 & WWDC26)

A practical walkthrough of Apple's MLX framework for local LLMs — inference, quantization, fine-tuning on a single Mac, then scaling to multi-Mac clusters with JACCL and Thunderbolt 5.