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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.
OpenClaw Email: A Local-LLM Email Assistant That Reads Your Mail, Writes the Reply, and Never Sends It
A self-hosted email triage assistant: an IMAP listener, a local model, and a drafts queue. It classifies, labels and writes the reply — then stops. Sending is a human click, always. Free, MIT, download below.
My AI Agent Built a Benchmarking Tool for My AI Agents
I asked Hermes, my coding agent, to build a CLI that benchmarks my local models. It came back with bench-llm — a 1,660-line Python tool that tests speed, ability, and agent fitness across every model loaded in LM Studio.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh): I Installed DeepSeek's Open-Source Coding Agent, Wired It Into My Chat App, and Benchmarked It
DeepSeek shipped an MIT-licensed coding agent on August 13. Five days later it runs on my Bluefin box as a systemd service, sits next to Reasonix in DisPatch, and passed 15/15 tasks on three models — including a local one. Setup, numbers, gotchas.
What My AI Agents Actually Cost: DeepSeek vs the Big APIs
Two months of my always-on agent stack cost $30.57 on DeepSeek — $6.49 for July alone. But DeepSeek raises prices on August 16, and the same July workload jumps to ~$14–$27. Full old-vs-new breakdown, plus what GPT-5.6, Claude, Grok, and Kimi would charge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Cutting, engraving, and the occasional small fire. Each post has the details, process, and settings you need to duplicate it yourself.
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Small apps and utilities I built and actually use. Free downloads for personal use, source included.