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Reviews of AI tools, agents and self-hosted software, written after using them for a few weeks rather than a few minutes.

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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.

4 November 2026reviewshomelab
AI token market, November 2026

Mid-tier output prices slipped again; the top tier held. Cache pricing is where the real differences are now.

1 November 2026market
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.

21 October 2026reviews
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.

9 October 2026homelabreviews
AI token market, October 2026

A quiet month for list prices. Batch discounts are now worth planning around.

1 October 2026market
Forgejo Actions runners at home, without giving them the keys

Works well in rootless Podman. Keep runners on their own VLAN and expect to babysit caches.

18 September 2026homelab
Open WebUI as a front end for a small team

Good enough for five people. Past that, you will want proper SSO and per-user spend limits.

2 September 2026reviewshomelab
AI token market, September 2026

Long-context surcharges are spreading. Read the second price column, not the first.

1 September 2026market

Sample listings for this design. Only the vLLM review is written out as a full page.