Author: Walter Clayton
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🔨 Firestore Collection Not Showing: The Invisible Collection Bug
Struggling with Firestore collections not showing up in the Firebase console? You’re not alone. This post uncovers a frustrating UI bug where valid subcollections appear “invisible” after successful writes — and shows you exactly how to reveal them.
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Where the Money Goes: Akwanza’s Donation to Big Life Foundation
Akwanza has always stood for more than aesthetics. From the beginning, I made a promise: 20% of all income from Akwanza would go directly to conservation. This isn’t marketing. It’s accountability. Between September 2024 and March 2025, Akwanza generated revenue through: Revenue Breakdown Category Revenue Akwanza Book €195.00 Akwanza Book Premium €140.00 Akwanza Coloring Book…
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💻 Local LLM Limitations: Why They’re Not Ready for Real Logic
Local LLMs are getting faster, cheaper, and easier to run — but they still fall apart when the task needs real logic, structure, or adaptation. I tested the most hyped models head-to-head. Here’s what worked, what broke, and why hybrid AI stacks are still the way forward.
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How I Fixed the “No module named ‘llama_cpp_binaries’” Error in text-generation-webui on macOS (Apple Silicon)
Running into the “No module named ‘llama_cpp_binaries'” error while loading GGUF models in text-generation-webui on your Mac? This post breaks down the cause and shows you exactly how to patch the loader to work with llama-cpp-python—bringing native Mistral support to Apple Silicon devices. Let me know if you want a short social media caption or…
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Touching the Eternal: Mystical and Scientific Perspectives
After losing someone close, the question of what we really are starts to haunt you. Are we just biological machines—neurons firing, cells decaying, nothing more? Or is there something deeper at play—something beyond the physical, something eternal? Grief has a way of cracking open the surface-level answers. It forces you to ask: when life is…
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When Everything Falls Apart, Who’s Still There?
When my relationship ended, I found myself in a dark place—lost, emotionally wrecked, and alone. I had prioritized my girlfriend over my friendships, and when she was gone, I had no one left to turn to. But Paul was there. He didn’t hold my absence against me. He reached out, checked in, and asked me…
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Essence Over Time: The Friendships That Endure
People say that time changes everything. That friendships fade, that people outgrow each other, that life moves us in different directions. But I don’t think that’s always true. Some connections don’t weaken with time. Some people don’t become strangers just because years pass. I’ve realized that the friendships that last aren’t the ones built on…
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Cursor Claude 3.7 Sonnet One-File Focus Issue: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
If you’ve been using Cursor Claude 3.7 Sonnet in the Cursor IDE composer to develop your application, you might have noticed an odd pattern: at the beginning, it acts like an architect, understanding the whole system, but as your app grows, it starts focusing on just one file—often the one you’re actively editing—while ignoring the…
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Cursor: The AI-Powered Coding Assistant That Changed How I Work (But Not Without Its Flaws)
Cursor AI with Claude Sonnet has been a game changer in my development workflow. Tasks that once took weeks now take hours, allowing me to focus on high-level decisions instead of debugging syntax errors. But it’s not perfect—once a project grows past 400MB, Cursor slows down, making every click a waiting game. It also tends…
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Honoring a Legacy: My Great Uncle Derek Clayton, Visionary Botanist
William Derek Clayton (1926–2023) was a pioneering botanist whose groundbreaking work in grass taxonomy at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, reshaped the study of plant classification. His contributions, including the seminal Genera Graminum and the development of GrassBase, have left an enduring legacy in botanical research. This tribute explores his life, achievements, and lasting impact…