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Tools I have run on real work, with what they cost, what I tested and whether I kept them. Plus the token market every month, and notes from the rack in the cupboard.
The margin tells you the verdict: keep running, worth a weekend, or skip for now.
Sample archive. Two posts are written out in full on this build; the others are listings to show how the archive reads.
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Market report 2 Nov 2026
AI token market, November 2026
Flagship prices held still; the middle of the market kept getting cheaper.
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Keep running 26 Oct 2026
Coolify after six months on my own hardware
The self-hosted deploy panel I stopped thinking about, which is the point.
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Worth a weekend 12 Oct 2026
A week with a terminal coding agent on a ten-year-old codebase
Fast on the boring eighty per cent; the rest still needs someone who knows the system.
Sample listing; full post not on this build.
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Market report 5 Oct 2026
AI token market, October 2026
Cached-input pricing is where most of the real savings are now.
Sample listing; full post not on this build.
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Keep running 21 Sep 2026
Backups I actually restored: restic, a NAS and one bad afternoon
A backup is a hypothesis until you have restored from it. Test the restore.
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Keep running 7 Sep 2026
Open WebUI as the household's shared chat front end
One login, several models, and nobody in the house pastes work documents into a stranger's app.
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Worth a weekend 24 Aug 2026
From Proxmox VMs to a three-node k3s cluster, and partly back again
Kubernetes at home taught me a lot; it did not make anything more reliable.
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Skip for now 10 Aug 2026
Three self-hosted AI search tools, none kept
Each was a nice demo and a poor habit; the answers needed more checking than they saved.
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