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2026
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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.
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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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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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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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AI token market, October 2026
Two new mid-tier models undercut last month's prices on output tokens; long-context surcharges are the thing to read carefully.
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Self-hosted transcription: Whisper variants on one consumer GPU
faster-whisper is the sensible default. The largest models weren't worth the extra wait for meeting notes.
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The backups I have actually restored from
restic to two targets, with a restore test on the first of every month. Everything else I tried was theatre.
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Coolify as a Heroku replacement for side projects
Comfortable at five apps, shaky at twenty. Fine for hobby work; I wouldn't put a client on it yet.
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