It really ties the room together.
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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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February 2026
The folks at Royal Kludge and Redragon sent me three free hall-effect keyboards to review. I’m going to tell you about the two Royal Kludge keyboards in this post. They arrived first, and they’re the two I’ve had a chance…
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February 2026
I can’t help myself. I don’t need to try another coding plan. My needs are simple. I never reach the quota on my Z.ai Coding Lite plan, though this may be tighter now that Z.ai is charging three times the…
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January 2026
Setting up local LLM services in your home is complicated. Running a coding model locally would cost on the order of $10,000, whereas the same capability is available in the cloud for about $3 per month and runs several times…
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January 2026
I subscribed to Z.ai’s Coding Lite plan for what worked out to $3 per month. I’ve written in detail about my experiences with the Z.ai plan, and running OpenCode against Z.ai’s GLM-4.7 is most definitely all that I need. In…
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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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