Green Lung and Druidess lead a resurgence of folk-horror themes in British heavy metal, drawing inspiration from mythology, cemeteries, and 1970s occult rock. The genre blends riff-based metal with folk traditions and analog-era aesthetics, tracing roots to pioneering bands like Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar from the early 1980s.
ImageArm is a native macOS app that compresses images up to 80% without visible quality loss using multiple competing compression tools and GPU Metal acceleration. It offers drag-and-drop functionality, headless mode for scripts, Finder integration, and is free and open source.
Avery Robinson's book explores how cheap photocopiers, low-quality paper, and DIY production methods created the distressed aesthetic that defines heavy metal visual design. The text traces how underground tape trading circuits, flyers, and repeated copying transformed economic limitations into intentional design choices that now symbolize authenticity and survival in metal culture.
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is now supported in DwarfStar with fast inference speeds of 50-70 tokens/second and over 1400 tokens/second for prefill on 64GB Mac systems using Metal optimization.
A technical guide for running Gemma 4 26B on a Mac Mini M4 by raising the Metal GPU memory limit from the macOS default to enable full GPU utilization. The article explains why the model defaults to 66% CPU usage due to unified memory constraints and provides commands and configuration to achieve 100% GPU processing.