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AI & Local LLM

Reasonix: A Claude-Code-Style Coding Agent on DeepSeek

A terminal coding agent that works like Claude Code — subagents, skills, project memory — but runs against DeepSeek's pay-per-token API instead of a subscription. Setup, model tiers, and a hands-off auto-updater.

July 11, 2026 · Updated August 1, 2026
AI & Local LLM

My OpenClaw Setup: One Box That Can Make Websites

One Linux mini PC runs OpenClaw agents that write, build, and publish my websites through a gated, backed-up deploy pipeline — and this very article is refreshed weekly by that same box.

July 31, 2026 · Updated August 1, 2026
AI & Local LLM

The CHUWI AuBox Ai365: My AI Home Lab in a Box

An obscure Strix Point mini PC with dual 2.5GbE, USB4 and a Ryzen AI 9 365 — running Bluefin Linux, hosting eight AI agents, and drawing under 5 W at the chip. It replaced a dead 128 GB tablet, and this post gets updated weekly.

August 1, 2026 · Updated August 1, 2026
AI & Local LLM

The ASUS ROG Flow Z13: My Portable Home Lab That Refused to Stay Portable

A 128 GB gaming tablet ran my AI agents, my websites, and my whole home network — until a power fault started dropping it into sleep 30 seconds after every power-on. Here's the full post-mortem.

July 30, 2026 · Updated August 1, 2026
AI & Local LLM

What My AI Agents Actually Cost: DeepSeek vs the Big APIs

A full month of my always-on agent stack cost $24.08 on DeepSeek. Here's what the exact same 757M-token workload would cost on Claude, GPT, Grok, and Kimi — and why prompt caching is the whole story.

July 11, 2026 · Updated July 17, 2026
AI & Local LLM

WordPress to Static With Claude Code: How I Rebuilt This Site in an Afternoon

This site used to run on WordPress. An AI coding agent rebuilt it as Markdown files plus a 183-line Python generator in an afternoon — and the same workflow still maintains it.

July 11, 2026
AI & Local LLM

Putting a Chatbot on the Public Web — On My Own Hardware

A chatbot on a public website, but the brain is a small model running on a computer in my house — free per token and private. Here's the relay architecture that makes it safe, the security holes I had to close, and an honest accounting of how slow it is and what it would still need to be production-ready.

July 11, 2026
AI & Local LLM

Set Up Your LLM Assistant: Claude Code, Cowork, Terminex, and DeepSeek

The hub guide every "implement this yourself" box on this site points at: what an agentic LLM assistant is, and four real ways to get one running today.

July 11, 2026
Tools & Downloads

RGB Keyboard Control for the ASUS ROG Flow Z13, No Armoury Crate Required

A Linux RGB stack for the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 that talks to the keyboard and lightbar directly over HID — CLI, GTK app, and a browser panel, with colors that survive suspend and re-dock.

July 11, 2026