It really ties the room together.
patshead.com
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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patshead.com
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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patshead.com
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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patshead.com
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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patshead.com
January 2026
There was a post on Hacker News yesterday about ByteShape’s success running Qwen 30B A3B on a Raspberry Pi with 16 gigabytes of RAM. I wondered if their quantization was really better. I had tried fitting a quant of Qwen…
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patshead.com
December 2025
It has been five weeks since I wiped my NVMe drive and installed Bazzite on my desktop workstation. Why five weeks? I figured a blog post about this would be a good way to wrap up 2025! When I wrote…
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patshead.com
December 2025
I am not sure this is going to be as direct of a comparison as the title implies. I am not a scientist. I don’t plan to concoct an experiment to test both tools and models against the same task.…
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briancmoses.com
November 2025
An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N300 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.
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Butter, What?!
September 2025
Last night’s NTX Makers meetup at Dub’s Tea N’ Eats was a blast! So many friendly people were excited to show off their projects.
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Butter, What?!
January 2025
There seems to be a lot of hype around ultralight gaming mice. I am not at all certain where things shift from a mouse light to ultralight or superlight, but I do know that my Logitech G305 is rather heavy...
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