AI

I have written code before. Once upon a time I was even trained as a software developer, though I never ended up using that skill professionally. I do still write code and firmware now and then. But …

Every Fri3d Camp hands out a badge, and the 2024 one is a serious little machine: an ESP32-S3 with a 2-inch colour LCD, five NeoPixels, a joystick, a buzzer, an IMU and a microSD slot — all in a …

I run my coding life across two AI plans — Claude Code on an Anthropic Pro subscription, and the z.ai GLM Coding Plan — and both of them enforce the same kind of rolling usage limits: a five-hour …

I use Claude Code daily on two machines — a desktop workstation in my home office and a ThinkPad laptop. It’s a fantastic CLI-based AI coding assistant, but it has a gap: no built-in way to keep …

My first real experience with AI was the same as everyone else’s: I typed something into ChatGPT and it gave me an answer that felt like magic. I used it for months — drafting emails, looking up …

I wanted a transcription tool that runs entirely on my own hardware — no audio leaves the machine, no cloud APIs, no subscriptions. Something that handles any language (including tricky ones like …

In my previous post about Claude Code , I described how it helped me migrate and revive this website after an eleven-year hiatus. That was the beginning. Since then, I have been using Claude Code …

There is something philosophically satisfying about running AI on your own hardware. No subscription, no rate limits, no terms-of-service clause about what you can ask. Your prompts stay on your …

If you look at the timestamps on this website, you will notice a long gap. The last post before this one dates from 2015. That is eleven years of silence — not because I stopped building things, but …