Lance Keay
Senior full-stack developer and DevOps engineer
Taking contract work, remote
Builds software,then runs it.
I write web applications end to end and look after the pipelines, containers and servers they live on.
This is my notebook: hands-on reviews of AI tools and self-hosted software, and a monthly look at what model tokens cost.
Each post ends with a verdict. It is printed here first, so you can decide whether the long version is worth your time.
Latest posts
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vLLM on a single 24 GB card: worth the setup?
Fastest of the three once it runs. Overkill unless more than one person uses the box.
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AI token market, November 2026
Mid-tier output prices slipped again; the top tier held. Cache pricing is where the real differences are now.
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Three weeks with a coding agent on a legacy Django codebase
Good at the boring 70%. Needs a human for migrations, and for saying no.
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Paperless-ngx in a Proxmox container, a year on
Still running, still boring, which is the point. Back up the database, not just the files.
Sample listings for this design. Only the vLLM review is written out. All posts
Need someone who can ship it and keep it up?
I take contracts in full-stack development, CI/CD, containers and cloud infrastructure. The CV has the detail; an email is the quickest way to ask about dates.