It really ties the room together.
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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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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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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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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