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  1. Market

    AI token market, November 2026

    Verdict: Price per million tokens in and out, model by model, in one wide table.

  2. Review

    Ollama and four other local model runners

    Verdict: Start with Ollama. Move to vLLM once several people send requests at once.

  3. Review

    Aider in a real repository

    Verdict: Good at small, well-described changes. Read every diff before it commits.

  4. Homelab

    Paperless-ngx for a household’s letters

    Verdict: Worth the evening of setup. Back up the media folder, not only the database.

  5. Market

    AI token market, October 2026

    Verdict: Last month’s table. Read it beside November’s to see which prices moved.

  6. Review

    Open WebUI as a chat front end for a small team

    Verdict: Fine behind a VPN for a handful of people. Read the licence before you rebrand it.

  7. Homelab

    Restic backups to a second machine

    Verdict: Run a restore on day one, not on the day you need it.

  8. Market

    AI token market, September 2026

    Verdict: The first table in this series, with the method for every later one.

  9. Review

    Coolify for side projects on one VPS

    Verdict: Good for three or four small apps. Keep a plain Compose file as the way out.

  10. Homelab

    Uptime Kuma watching the homelab

    Verdict: Ten minutes to set up, and it tells you about the outage before a user does.