The Almanac shop
Printed and printable companions
A small line of supporting tools — cheat sheets, decks, posters — built from the same source material as the site, designed for the workshop or wall rather than the browser.
Cheat sheets
Claude — Operator's Cheat Sheet
Every Claude API knob, prompt-cache rule, and pricing tier on one printable sheet.
GPT-5 — Operator's Cheat Sheet
Reasoning-effort tiers, billing surprises, schema-adherence quirks.
Gemini 2.5 — Operator's Cheat Sheet
Context-window pricing, multimodal inputs, long-video tricks.
DeepSeek R1 — Operator's Cheat Sheet
Self-hosting recipe, fine-tune budget, <think> block formatting.
Llama 4 — Operator's Cheat Sheet
Hardware sizing, vLLM tuning, quantisation tradeoffs.
Qwen 3 — Operator's Cheat Sheet
Multilingual deployment, fine-tuning pitfalls.
Open-Weights Stack — Cheat Sheet
Together, Fireworks, Groq, Replicate — when to pick which.
MCP Server — Cheat Sheet
Writing your first MCP server, the protocol gotchas.
Agent Loop — Cheat Sheet
The four termination guards, state compaction patterns.
Prompt Cache — Cheat Sheet
Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini caching APIs side by side.
Model Routing — Cheat Sheet
When to route, when not, classifier latency budget.
Flashcard decks
Model Tells — Flashcard Deck
Identify any frontier model from a paragraph of output. 60 cards.
Schema Adherence — Flashcard Deck
Failure modes for JSON-strict outputs across providers.
Benchmark Trust Levels — Flashcard Deck
Which benchmarks survive contamination, which don't.
Pricing & Billing Surprises — Flashcard Deck
Reasoning tokens, cache misses, batch API discounts.
Pocket guides
The AI Eras — Pocket Field Guide
Ten eras of AI on a single foldable. The Almanac in your pocket.
Sizing Wheel — Pick a Model
Spin the wheel — workload in, model out. The fastest selection tool ever printed.
The Compendium
The Operator's Compendium
Every agent harness, every routing pattern, every cost trick. 90-page PDF.
Wall posters
Model Lineage Tree — Wall Poster
Every frontier model since BERT, plotted by ancestry, on one print.
Model Portrait Set (10×) — Wall Posters
Naturalist-style portraits of every model worth running.
Complete bundle
Complete Library — Everything Bundle
All cheat sheets, all decks, the Compendium, every poster — at a third the unbundled cost.
All digital products fulfilled by Gumroad (handles EU/UK VAT). Posters via Society6 when print-shipped. See disclosure for affiliate terms.