Lance Keay

Lance Keay

Senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer. I build web applications and the pipelines, clusters and servers they run on.

This is my notebook: hands-on reviews of AI tools, agents and self-hosted software, and a monthly look at what AI tokens cost.

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  1. Open WebUI after a month as my only chat front end

    Keep it. The best self-hosted chat front end I have used, as long as you pin the version and read release notes before upgrading.

    Recommended reviewhomelab

  2. AI token market, November 2026

    List prices barely moved. Cached-input discounts and batch pricing are now where the real differences between providers sit.

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    Monthly summary market

  3. Two terminal coding agents on a ten-year-old Django app

    Both saved me real hours on tests and refactors. Neither should touch database migrations without a human reading every line.

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    With caveats review

  4. Moving my homelab from Docker Compose to k3s, and back

    k3s worked fine. At twelve services, Compose plus a tested backup script is less to look after.

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    Not for me homelab

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I take on full-stack and DevOps contracts: shipping features, untangling CI/CD, moving workloads to containers, and making infrastructure boring again. Remote or on site, by the day or by the project.

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