Posts
Hands-on reviews of AI tools, agents and self-hosted software, a monthly look at what model tokens cost, and notes from the homelab. Each post leads with its verdict.
Sample content. The list below shows the format: titles, dates and verdicts are placeholders until real posts are published. Every entry opens the example review.
Post list
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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.
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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.
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2 Oct 2026Market · 8 min
AI token market, October 2026
A quiet month on list prices; the real change was in cached-input discounts, which now matter more than the headline rate.
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24 Sep 2026Review · 10 min
n8n's AI agent nodes: good glue, poor judgement
Worth watching Fine for moving data between systems; keep decisions that cost money out of the agent step.
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11 Sep 2026Homelab · 9 min
Paperless-ngx with a local model doing the tagging
Use it The OCR was already good; a small local model makes the tags consistent without sending documents anywhere.
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30 Aug 2026Review · 8 min
Browser agents for routine admin: not yet
Skip for now Too many silent failures on forms that change. A short script is still cheaper to trust.
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