LanceKeay
Senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer. I build and run production systems, and I test AI tools on real work before I write a word about them.
Aider, three weeks in: a pair programmer that respects git
Use it For work that must land as clean commits.
Latest from the notebook
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2 Nov 2026Market · 9 min
AI token market, November 2026
Top-tier prices held; the mid tier got cheaper again, and that is where most of my day-to-day work now runs.
Illustrative figures for layout only. The real post lists current list prices with sources. Model tier Blended $/M vs Oct Frontier, provider A 6.00 0% Frontier, provider B 4.38 0% Mid tier, provider C 0.70 −20% Self-hosted 8B, my box 0.12 power only -
27 Oct 2026Review · 14 min
Aider, three weeks in: a pair programmer that respects git
Use it The best terminal assistant I have tried for work that has to land as clean, reviewable commits.
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19 Oct 2026Homelab · 11 min
Moving my homelab from Compose files to Coolify
Worth watching Pleasant for web apps and previews; the databases stay in plain Compose for now.
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8 Oct 2026Review · 12 min
Open WebUI as the front door to local and hosted models
Use it One login, one history, any model. Budget a careful afternoon for the admin settings.
Need someone who can build it and keep it running?
I take on contract work across the whole path from pull request to production: the application, the pipeline that ships it, and the infrastructure it runs on.
Or write directly to [email protected] · Word version of the CV on the About page
Full-stack builds
TypeScript and Python services with the front end attached, written to be handed over.
Pipelines and platforms
CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes and Terraform, with monitoring someone will actually read.
AI tooling that holds up
Model APIs, retrieval and agents wired into real systems, with costs measured up front.