Tech Articles & Tutorials Published on January 27, 2026

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A developer laptop showing token boundaries highlighted across text, with token counts and latency estimates in the margin.

Series: Local AI Lab For Developers (Part 2)

Tokens Are the Unit of Pain: Tokenization You Can See

January 27, 2026·byJoshua Morris

Tokens are the meter your model charges in: context, latency, and cost. We'll make tokenization visible using your existing local Ollama service—first via a CLI token inspector + heatmap, then with a live-updating browser playground.

AILocal DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Clean editorial illustration of a messy spreadsheet gradually organizing itself row by row as arrows indicate comparisons and swaps

MethodicalFunction.com

Series: Algorithms (Part 7)

Heap Sort: Order Through Structured Chaos

January 26, 2026·byJoshua Morris

A practical deep dive into Heap Sort—how binary heaps work, why heap sort guarantees O(n log n), and how it compares to quicksort, mergesort, and selection sort across real systems.

Computer ScienceAlgorithms

A developer laptop terminal streaming local model output with latency metrics overlayed.

MethodicalFunction.com

Series: Local AI Lab For Developers (Part 1)

AI on Your Computer: Run a Local LLM Like a Service

January 20, 2026·byJoshua Morris

Run a local LLM on macOS, Linux, or Windows, call it over HTTP like a real service, stream output in Node/Python/Go/C++, and measure TTFT + throughput to understand what's actually happening.

AILocal DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Abstract geometric visualization of elements partitioning around a pivot

MethodicalFunction.com

Series: Algorithms (Part 6)

Quick Sort: Order Through Partition

January 2, 2026·byJoshua Morris

A deep, honest exploration of Quick Sort—how partitioning creates order, why average-case performance beats guarantees, and how design choices shape real-world speed.

Computer ScienceAlgorithms