New: AI token market, November 2026

Full-stack and DevOps contractor

I’m Lance Keay. I build web apps and the pipelines that ship them, and review AI and self-hosted tools, cost first.

Latest reviews and reports. Each with a one-line verdict.

Sample posts: titles, verdicts and figures stand in until the archive moves over.

AI token market, November 2026Market
Verdict: mid-tier output prices fell again; the cheapest model is rarely the cheapest job.
Restic and Backrest for homelab backupsReview
Verdict: keep it. Restores worked every time; the web UI is young.
Four local model runners, one GPUReview
Verdict: Ollama for a team box, llama.cpp when you need every token a second.
Recabling the rack before adding a nodeHomelab
Verdict: a labelled patch panel saved more time than the new switch.

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Install process on the homelab

Every tool runs on my own hardware or my own cloud account, set up from the public docs, never from a vendor demo.
Real use before the reviews

It goes into a working project or my own infrastructure. I log what breaks, what it costs and how long the fixes take.
Verdict, cost and licence on all reviews

Each review opens with a one-line verdict, the monthly cost, the licence and the versions tested. The detail follows below it.