Speculative decoding made my local LLM actually usable
…That was the real lesson for me. Local LLM performance is about how you run it, not just about what you run. You don't always need a better model. Sometimes you…
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I used Obsidian wrong for a year, here's the folder setup that finally clicks
…links Finding the balance The hardest lesson I had to learn was that I was treating Obsidian like a Windows File Explorer. I was trying to make my folders do the heavy…
I wasted half a spool of filament before I touched the one slicer setting that fixed everything
…You can still learn something from those tests, but you’re learning through a dirty lens. After calibrating the flow, the other slicer settings started making more sense. Temperature changes produced clearer…
Stop buying networking gear for your smart home that looks good on paper but fails in practice
…I’ve learned that some networking gear doesn’t actually solve a problem so much as relocate it into a shinier enclosure with more blinking lights. In a house full of connected…
I moved my home lab to a new house after years of 24/7 use, and here’s what broke
…of issues once I fired it back up, and during the troubleshooting process, I learned some lessons in what to do (and not to do) for next time. Related 3 reasons I…
Claude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
…It found the small ones I’d learned to ignore. That’s why I decided to let Claude Code inspect my setup instead of waiting for the next weird failure to push…
4 tricks I use to get better videos from Gemini Omni every time
…Treat creative prompts like a movie shot Direct it like a videographer, not like a search engine One of the key lessons I learned fairly quickly with Gemini Omni is that it…
The year of the Linux desktop already happened, just not on desktops
…it again? The second generation of the Steam Machine is a promising concept that learned important lessons from the Steam Deck. It creates a mostly unified hardware platform and it's developed…
I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
…Here’s what I’d do differently if I started over Things to sort before touching VLANs My first lesson is: segment the home network by risk, not by device class. Isolating…
Home Assistant slows down over time, but there's a nuclear option most people don't realize
…Embracing a clean slate allows you to shed years of technical debt, optimize your data, IOPS, and design a hardened logical ecosystem using the lessons you learned the hard way. It only…