Ugh! I had to build a new PC in 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.
Read this post at briancmoses.com →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.
Read this post at briancmoses.com →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...
Read the post →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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…
Read this post at patshead.com →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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