It really ties the room together.
Butter, What?!
November 2026
Last year, Brian and I ran the Butter, What?! booth at Texas Linux Fest. We had a good time. I remember so many fun conversations with more than one hundred people who stopped by to check out what we were...
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patshead.com
November 2026
I saw a deal on Amazon for the new Sceptre C415B-UUS360 5120x2160 VA gaming monitor for $475, and I was immediately itching to pull the trigger. I have been drooling over Brian Moses’s 45” 5120x2160 OLED for more than a…
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briancmoses.com
October 2026
An unfortunate series of events results in Brian realizing that he was going to have to build a new PC in the midst of AI-inflated hardware prices.
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Butter, What?!
October 2026
After attending Texas Linux Fest for the first time in 2024, I convinced Pat to join me in bringing all of our websites to Texas Linux Fest in 2025, and unsurprisingly we had a great time connecting with the festival’s...
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patshead.com
September 2026
I started writing this blog post during the first few days of September, and it was just about ready to publish the day before ByteShape released their quants of Qwen 3.8 27B. That goofed up the flow of my post…
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patshead.com
May 2026
I have been using OpenCode since November. I am a light user of coding harnesses, but I do use OpenCode almost every single day. I have tried out Pi in the past, but only to take advantage of its tiny…
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patshead.com
April 2026
I have had a small problem ever since downsizing from two 27” monitors to a single ultrawide 34” monitor. I don’t mind that I gave up one third of my screen real estate, because I had to turn my head…
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patshead.com
April 2026
The last time we visited this topic, I had ordered a used 8 GB Radeon RX 580 for $56, and I had tested most of the capabilities required for Home Assistant voice control. A local LLM was smart and fast…
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patshead.com
March 2026
I start all of these blog posts about coding plans the same way. You need to understand my perspective. I am a light user. I don’t spend all day writing code. I don’t need bleeding-edge models, and I will never…
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patshead.com
March 2026
I think it is important to explain my perspective. I am not a professional software developer, but I do use OpenCode almost every day. I am not writing massive applications. I rarely hit the limits of the lowest price coding…
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