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Every post has the details, process, and exact settings to duplicate it yourself. The site is live and maintained — and most of the work here, including this site itself, is done with LLMs.
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Builds, guides, and experiments from the shop.
Winding Down OMLA: How to Shut Down a Non-Profit
I spent months building a non-profit licensing framework for open-weight AI models, then retired it without ever launching. What it was, what got built, and what shutting it down actually took — with the whole thing archived for download.
WordPress: Use AI to Make Custom Blocks (Free Accordion Example)
A free copy-paste accordion for WordPress — plain HTML and CSS, no plugin, no JavaScript — plus the exact AI prompt that wrote it.
Wood Engraving: Fire Bear
An AI-generated firefighter-bear logo, laser-engraved onto a turtle-shaped hardwood tray. The whole workflow: prompt, typeface, xTool Creative Space, burn.
What My AI Agents Actually Cost: DeepSeek vs the Big APIs
Three months of an always-on AI agent stack: $242 in June, $225 in July, $385 in August. What drove each bill, what DeepSeek's August 16 price hike did, and what the same workload costs on GPT, Claude, Grok and Kimi.
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.
StudioForge: A GPU-Only LLM Server That Replaced LM Studio
I wrote the model server I wanted: an OpenAI-compatible llama.cpp gateway on port 1234 that plans VRAM before it loads, refuses a model instead of spilling it to the CPU, keeps pinned models warm, and gives an agent on another machine 29 MCP tools to run the rig. Free download, source on GitHub.
Set Up Your LLM Assistant: Claude Code, Cowork, Reasonix 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.
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.
Pixel-Art Widget Showdown: Three Coding Agents, One Brief, Two Authors
I gave dsh, Kimi K3 and MiniMax M3 the same brief for a pixel-art LaserLloyd logo widget. dsh and Kimi wrote working widgets. MiniMax replied that it had built one, but the files it pointed to were Kimi's.
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Running AI on your own hardware — local LLMs, agents, and image generation. No subscriptions, no cloud, no computer-science degree.
Laser Projects
Cutting, engraving, and the occasional small fire. Each post has the details, process, and settings you need to duplicate it yourself.
Tools & Downloads
Small apps and utilities I built and actually use. Free downloads for personal use, source included.