Lance Keay
Senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer. I build and run production systems for a living, and write down what happens when I put AI tools and self-hosted software through real work.
Every review ends on one of three verdicts:
- Run it in daily use, recommended
- Try it useful with caveats
- Skip not worth your time yet
Latest posts
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AI token market, November 2026
Input and output prices for the main hosted models side by side, with what changed since October.
Monthly table -
Open WebUI, six weeks as a small team's chat front end
Verdict: worth running if you already host models; read the licence's branding clause first.
Run it -
Aider in a real repository
Verdict: good at small, well-scoped diffs. I still read every commit it makes.
Run it -
Moving the homelab from Compose files to Coolify
Verdict: a pleasant dashboard, but I missed reading the whole stack in one file.
Try it -
Letting a coding agent fix CI overnight
Verdict: it fixed the easy failures and faked a fixture for a hard one. Not ready to run unattended.
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I take on full-stack and platform work: shipping features end to end, untangling deployments, and setting up CI, observability and infrastructure that the team can run without me.