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Quinton Maki

@qmaki

SDE at AWS building developer tools at scale. Writing about AI, infrastructure, and the messy parts of software engineering.

San Francisco, USAJoined March 2026

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QMQuinton Makiqmaki.hashnode.devMay 9 · 9 min read

I Spent a Weekend Fighting TrueNAS's eMMC Installer Bug So You Don't Have To

So I wanted to build a NAS, and I didn't want to spend Synology money on it. Their 4-bay boxes run $800+ and you're still locked into their weird proprietary ecosystem where everything works fine unti

QMQuinton Makiqmaki.hashnode.devApr 13 · 9 min read

Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

A couple weeks ago, Anthropic told the world they'd built something too dangerous to release. Claude Mythos Preview, their newest frontier model, could autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities i

QMQuinton Makiqmaki.hashnode.devApr 1 · 8 min read

I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code

I've been building a site for a client - a portfolio and booking site for her hair and makeup business. It's not quite ready to launch yet, but it's close. While I was putting it together, I set up th

QMQuinton Makiqmaki.hashnode.devMar 25 · 9 min read

My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

I have a desktop PC that I've been rebuilding for years, swapping in a new GPU here, a new CPU there, same case, same weird cable management in the back that I keep telling myself I'll fix. The whole

QMQuinton Makiqmaki.hashnode.devMar 21 · 10 min read

It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet

A blog post called "I'm OK being left behind, thanks" hit the top of Hacker News last week with over 800 points and 670 comments. The author, Terence Eden, made a simple argument: if AI is really as t

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I Spent a Weekend Fighting TrueNAS's eMMC Installer Bug So You Don't Have To

Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code

My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet

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About

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Quinton Maki's blogs

Recently published

I Spent a Weekend Fighting TrueNAS's eMMC Installer Bug So You Don't Have To

Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model Is Also Its Best Ad

I Built a String Editor That Writes Itself Out of Your Code

My Windows PC Is Basically a Console Now

It's Fine to Not Care About AI Yet