It really ties the room together.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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March 2026
This is awesome, and I can’t believe how well this works. I can write code in all sorts of different languages. I understand YAML. I can handle Node Red. What I can’t do is remember the names of all the…
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March 2026
The budget-friendly LLM subscription landscape is changing fast. Chutes, NanoGPT, and Z.ai have all shaken up their pricing or limits in the last few weeks, and if the angry Reddit threads are any indication, a lot of people are unhappy…
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Butter, What?!
December 2025
I considered holding off until the start of 2026 to write this blog post, but there is a good chance that the LLM landscape will have evolved a lot by the time we get to March or April. The end...
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Butter, What?!
October 2025
I have to tell you that we didn’t expect to get much traffic at our little table at Texas Linux Fest. We’re just a couple of guys who brought a 3D printer competing with big companies like Rackspace and Framework...
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