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Cloud Native & Open Source

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

We've all heard people say that local Qwen 27B or 35-A3B is "near-Opus level", but I have receipts from a software business and open source projects,...

JUNE 17, 2026 on LLM, LOCALAI, AGENTS

I wrote a replacement for GitHub's code review bot

I wrote a replacement for GitHub's code review bot. But it's not as crazy as it sounds, in 2016 I created a successful alternative a de facto industr...

NOVEMBER 18, 2025 on GITHUB, LLM, AGENT, ...

Preview: Slice Up Bare-Metal with Slicer

By popular request, we're releasing Slicer, our much used internal tool from OpenFaaS Ltd for efficiently slicing up bare metal into microVMs. > Sin...

AUGUST 30, 2025 on LINUX, SELF-HOSTING, WORK, ...

I Bought An N100 Mini PC, Then Another

I have bought dozens of Raspberry Pis over the years, but I'm now turning to the Mini PC for R&D work. The Intel N100 is a low-power processor with...

AUGUST 18, 2025 on LINUX, SELF-HOSTING, WORK, ...

The 90s UNIX Utility That Fell Out of Favour

The classic command finger is still found on MacOS and various other BSDs even today, but has fallen out of favour. Why? For us over here in the UK,...

AUGUST 15, 2025 on LINUX, UNIX
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