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AI is faster then you. Today marks the Grand Reveal of the intersection of AI and Cyber Security and the resulting damage it can do. Multiple CVEs along with a major hack of an infrastructure provider all happened within hours of…
Mythical Factory Man The previous article around Building A Solo Software Empire described a theoretical state: make a software business legible in repositories, markdown, scripts, infrastructure code, and runbooks, then let a…
For the first time a solo developer does not need a big team, a custom platform group, or months of internal tooling work to build a serious software delivery system. You can bootstrap your own self hosted platform now. Not…
“There’s levels to this” - Meek Mill That’s my current belief of Agentic Coding right now. For every new person still painstakingly working in IDEs instructing their Agent one file at a time, there are people who have entire…
If you have wanted to start agentic coding and don’t know where to start, this is the place for you. There are so many coding agents now that it’s confusing where to start and what offers you the best capabilities. As we speak…
Homelabs are a continuous journey with frequent waypoints and rarely have a final stopping point. This is my main takeaway from the last year of building out my own personal cloud setup at home. What is time consuming, annoying,…
Since the launch of the M series of Apple Silicon Apple has held an immense advantage on portable laptops due to the integrated structure of their system on a chip — Apple Silicon. It combines CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, along with System…
If you need even more performance out of your Local AI then we need to shift to more powerful AI backends to run our models. More tokens per second means we can get answers faster and iterate sooner, letting us develop our…
2024 saw the launch of my paid Substack, giving you advice on Productivity, AI, and Programming. If you read any of these articles you are already ahead of your peers who still work on tiny desks, 1 screen, and don’t know what…
Recently I’ve documented on X my journey towards building a NAS and AI Rig and that ended up with me building two computers to support those workflows more optimally. My brand new NAS I built is now running UnRaid with 40TBs of…
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This article will guide you to choosing the best hardware setup fro you and help you evaluate the tradeoffs that need to be considered. This is a complex, multi variable consideration as AI hardware in itself has many tradeoffs,…