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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.
Latest projects
Builds, guides, and experiments from the shop.
MIT-0 license: why every Laser Lloyd project uses it
Every open-source project I publish now carries MIT-0, the MIT licence with the attribution requirement removed: take the code, change it, put it in a product you sell, and you do not have to keep my notice or credit me.
Nov updates 2026: DisPatch 4.3, StudioForge 2.3 and more
What shipped on 1 November 2026: DisPatch Chat 4.3.0, StudioForge 2.3.0, MailForge 0.7.1 and five more, with upgrade notes.
My AI Agent Built a Benchmarking Tool for My AI Agents
My coding agent wrote bench-llm: 1,660 lines of Python that benchmark local models in LM Studio. Within two weeks my models all scored 5/5, so I replaced it with CrucibleForge: 276 cases, 166 hard, free on GitHub.
What My AI Agents Actually Cost: DeepSeek vs the Big APIs
Five months of an always-on AI agent stack: $242, $225, $385, then $293 in September and October once a $55 MiniMax plan took most of the traffic. What drove each bill, what DeepSeek's price hike did, and what happened when the flat plan ran out.
TransForge: Translate a Static Site With a Local LLM, Only the Pages That Changed
TransForge is the command-line tool that keeps this site in seven more languages. It sends Markdown pages to a model on my own GPU box, checks every translation before writing it, and only re-translates a page when its English source actually changed. Free, MIT.
ThemeForge: a Drop-in CSS Theme System an AI Agent Installs in One Step
ThemeForge is a single folder, `ui-theme/`, that gives a web app thirteen colour themes, a picker, design tokens and ready-made component classes — and it's written so an AI coding agent can install it in one step from a one-line Python command. Plain CSS, no build step, no dependencies; MIT; source and zip below.
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.
StudioForge 2.0: Accounts, Scoped API Keys and a Safe Upgrade Path
StudioForge 2.0 locks the model server down by default: loopback only, an owner account, and a scoped API key per client. What breaks on upgrade, the ten-minute way through it, and screenshots of the new panel.
Run DisPatch and My AI Tools in Docker: One File, One Command
A private AI chat app for your home, running in Docker. Copy one file, run one command, answer a short setup wizard, and chat with a model on your own computer. Every step tested, with screenshots.
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Running AI on your own hardware — local LLMs, agents, and image generation. No subscriptions, no cloud, no computer-science degree.
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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.
Tools & Downloads
Small apps and utilities I built and actually use. Free downloads for personal use, source included.