Full-stack developer writing about .NET, Azure, React, and whatever else I had to spend too long debugging.
Why I built the QR Code encoder/decoder on spanners.dev: an API endpoint was handing back a QR code as Base64, and I needed to check it actually decoded to the value I expected. Encode and decode, all client-side.
Ollama Cloud's Pro plan is $20/month for $60 of usage credits. Command Code's GOAT plan is $10/month for $70. Here's what changed in Ollama's pricing, why I switched, and why the free models are worth paying attention to.
Why I built BadPhish — a browser extension that checks links you click in Outlook on the web and Gmail before they load, shows you every signal it can find, and lets you decide. The story, the design, and the privacy model.
Building a single Home Assistant chart that proves my solar-and-battery automation actually charges when electricity is cheap — with Octopus Intelligent Go, a Sigenergy SigenStor inverter, and a correctness line.
From 479 preemptions to serving 128k contexts out of a 64 GB disk cache — including the upstream bug I had to patch to get there.
The model felt slow, so I stopped guessing. Prometheus on my Unraid box scrapes vLLM, LiteLLM, and the GPU — and a 31-panel Grafana dashboard separates 'slow prefill' from 'KV cache exhaustion' from 'the engine is dead'.
Why I left Cursor for Paseo — a remote daemon that gives me cloud-class fire-and-forget agents while the model stays on my own box. How the setup works, how the native Android app beats Cursor's iOS-only mobile story, and why the local/cloud split is the whole point.
From 26 t/s to 33 t/s with a 2x context window — what actually moved the needle, and the tradeoffs that didn't show up in the benchmark.
A full tour of fringeplan.com — why the official Fringe app still isn't a planner, how Generate builds a clash-free week around travel and meals, and the features that turn a show list into a shareable, bookable schedule.
What the 15 digits in an IMEI actually mean, how the Luhn check digit works, and a client-side tool on spanners.dev for generating and validating IMEIs and IMEISVs for testing.