I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn’t fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I’m running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.

I went from a 3440x1440 ultrawide to Apple’s Studio Display XDR. It is the best coding monitor I have used, and here are the details I wanted clear answers on before buying it.

I moved from Synology to a Ugreen 4800 Plus running TrueNAS. It was louder than expected. I measured everything, printed a few mods, swapped the fan, and ended up with a NAS that is both quieter and cooler where it matters.

Backblaze’s ‘keep last version’ rule doesn’t delete old versions immediately. I found 21,000 extras and automated the cleanup with rclone.

A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.