It really ties the room together.
patshead.com
November 2025
I’m probably stretching the word “workstation” a little further than I should. I’m talking about the machine I’m typing on right now. It’s my gaming PC, video editing machine, and the place where I sit when I work on blog…
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patshead.com
November 2025
I’m not going to make you wait until the end to learn the answer. I’m going to tell you what I think right in the first paragraph. I believe you should subscribe to the Z.ai Coding Lite plan even if…
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patshead.com
November 2025
What does it take to upgrade a 3D-printed mouse mod from version 1.0 to 2.0? With software, you usually increment the major number when you’re making a change that makes the program incompatible with the old version in some major…
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patshead.com
November 2025
My feelings about local large-language models (LLMs) waffle back and forth every few months. New smaller models come out that perform reasonably well, in both speed and output quality, on inexpensive hardware. Then new massive LLMs arrive two months later…
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patshead.com
October 2025
This seems like a question that could be easily answered with math, but there is a big problem. This question has a lot in common with the Fermi paradox, because there are so many important numbers that would need to…
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briancmoses.com
October 2025
A summary our trip to Austin, TX to be a community exhibitor at 2025 Texas Linux fest! Especially the success of the DIY NAS giveaway!
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briancmoses.com
September 2025
I'm going to have a booth at Texas Linux Fest, so I built a TXLF-inspired DIY NAS that I will give away in a raffle! It has an Intel N150 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, TrueNAS CE, 4TB of NVME…
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briancmoses.com
August 2025
I 3D-printed 12-drive ATX case to use as a secondary Proxmox node in my homelab! It turned out fantastic!
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Butter, What?!
December 2024
I was supposed to get together with Brian for pizza tonight. At least, it was supposed to be pizza night when I started writing these words. It may be a few days or weeks later by the time I manage...
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Butter, What?!
August 2024
Over twelve years ago, I built my very first DIY NAS. At the time, I had a very specific and unconventional idea in mind for my DIY NAS to be: small, with a passively cooled CPU, room for about 6...
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