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Practical guides, open-source utilities, and experiments in AI & software engineering - created and tested by me, Stephen Collins.
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Hotspots v1.18.0: Compact Storage
Stephen Collins
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May 21, 2026
4 mins
Snapshot history is valuable. Unbounded snapshot growth is not. v1.18.0 ships two compaction levels that shrink your .hotspot...
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Hotspots v1.17.0: Model Risk Map and Monorepo Subsystems
Stephen Collins
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May 20, 2026
5 mins
Hotspots already tells you which functions are risky. v1.17.0 tells you which models those functions cluster around — and mak...
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Hotspots now handles monorepos — what changed from v1.11 to v1.15.1
Stephen Collins
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Apr 24, 2026
5 mins
The diff command shipped in v1.11. Since then — four months of OOM fixes, a new SQLite pipeline, hybrid touch mode, and --aut...
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