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Long-form posts: AI-assisted development, homelab infrastructure, projects, and works in progress.

Week in review: Oct 11 – Oct 18

· weekly-digest, attention

The exporter backfilled six years of Practical AI and Pivot to AI archives, while the fresh items — Micron's memory windfall, the Linux kernel's AI-slop problem, and Google's TabFM — replayed the archive's recurring themes of bubble economics and agentic coding.

ClipWatcher - A Clipboard URL Collector Built Entirely by Local AI Agents

· Local LLMs, AI Coding, Tools

A tiny Windows app that watches the clipboard and saves every URL it finds - tests what a fully local coding stack can build - and presents the results for your review.

Week in review: Oct 4 – Oct 11

· weekly-digest, attention

Ed Zitron's Better Offline back catalog rolled through the exporter in bulk, framing the week's fresh AI news — Nvidia's 'cycular' financing, the White House superintelligence accord, and a wobbly AI IPO — while the local-model channel kept score on MoE models and context management for agents.

Week in review: Sep 27 – Oct 4

· weekly-digest, attention

The AI bubble's finances dominated the week — Anthropic's losses, IPO numbers, and hyperscaler concentration risk — alongside a steady stream of hands-on local-AI tooling: spec-driven coding with local models, heavyweight voice cloning, and Claude Code mods.

Rebuilding a website is easier than you think — my agent did my test site in a couple of days

· website, AI-assisted-development, homelab, agents

How an AI agent took philwheat.net from an invisible Blazor WebAssembly app to a static Hugo site in three days — and why re-implementing your own existing site is a much smaller project than it feels.

Week in review: Sep 21 – Sep 28

· weekly-digest, attention

A quiet week, joined by two media essays on how attention and value flow: Napster's remix of the music business, and Cory Doctorow's split between real LLMs and fake AI.

Client Software Stack — The Road Not Taken

· Local LLMs, Development

I’ve reviewed a lot of packages to find what worked best.

Client Software Stack — What I Run

· Local LLMs, Development

We’ve covered the hardware, the OS options, and the Servers.

The Server Software Stack — What I Run Locally

· Local LLMs, Homelab

The Server Software Stack — What I Run Locally

You can build an AI lab from the things you find at home.

· Local LLMs, Homelab

Well, at least at my home...

The escape from Token Tyranny - Local LLMs.

· Local LLMs

I’ve been doing neural networks for more than 30 years.

LLMs today

· LLMs, Development

The start of a series of posts about using LLMs in the development process.

Old Projects

· Projects

Informational Post

Welcome to my corner of the Internet

· Intro, General

A quick introduction to the site.