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Dev.to · Rob
4d ago
Keep the Credit Ledger Off-Chain. Checkpoint It On-Chain.
I specced an on-chain credit ledger for a compute network and the token program refused to initialize the mint. That rejection sent me back to the design. The l

Dev.to · Rob
5d ago
Friday Fixes: Housekeeping the Homelab and Hub
A model refresh on the homelab (Qwen 3.6, new embeddings, 469 llama.cpp builds), a feature sprint on the vacation planning site (calendar sync, expense tracking

Dev.to · Rob
1w ago
Why Strake Is Free Right Now
Strake is free right now. Not because deploy safety has no value. Not because pricing does not...

Dev.to · Rob
1w ago
Forking and Open Sourcing a Single Purpose Site
I built a trip planning site for my F1 Montreal group. Then I ripped out every hardcoded value, added a setup wizard, ran a security audit, and open-sourced it.

Dev.to · Rob
🧠 Large Language Models
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3w ago
Thursday Thoughts: The Models We Can't Run
Every week or two, a model drops that makes the local AI community lose its collective mind. This...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Model Showdown Round 4: Opus vs Qwen — Writers, Not Coders
Two models. Same prompt. Same five fodder files. Same 27 published posts to check for redundancy....

Dev.to · Rob
💻 AI-Assisted Coding
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1mo ago
Model Showdown Round 3: Ditching Ollama in Favor of llama.cpp
In Round 1, we ran five local models and two cloud models through a single coding task. The local...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Slaying the Gemma Beast: How We Fixed Local AI and Shipped Search
Two days ago, Gemma 4 couldn't finish a feature. Today it built one, pushed it to GitHub, and it's...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Your AI Strategy Has a Blind Spot: An SEO and AEO Audit of vibescoder.dev
A deep audit of vibescoder.dev revealed that Cloudflare was silently blocking every major AI crawler — even after we'd explicitly turned that setting off. Here'

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
The Agentic Gap: Claude Oneshots, Gemma Fails
Two days ago, Gemma 4 topped our local model benchmark — 167 tokens per second, perfect code quality...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Model Showdown Round 2: Adding Gemma, Kimi, and 579 GB of Stubborn Optimism
At the end of Round 1, we promised a rematch. More models. Fixed settings. Harder questions about...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Model Showdown: Benchmarking Local vs Cloud LLMs on a Real Coding Task
Last post we stood up Ollama on the RTX 5090, pulled a stack of models, and wired them into our...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Putting the GPU to Work: Running Local LLMs on a Home Lab
Yesterday we went from a gaming PC on a shelf to a fully configured Coder server with GitHub...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Open-Sourcing a Blog Without Open-Sourcing Your Drafts
I open-sourced my blog for Giscus comments and immediately found a gutted .gitignore, an exposed server URL, and all my unpublished drafts on GitHub. Here's how

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Putting the GPU to Work: Running Local LLMs on a Home Lab
Yesterday we went from a gaming PC on a shelf to a fully configured Coder server with GitHub...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
The Agentic Gap: Claude Oneshots, Gemma Fails
Two days ago, Gemma 4 topped our local model benchmark — 167 tokens per second, perfect code quality...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Your AI Strategy Has a Blind Spot: An SEO and AEO Audit of vibescoder.dev
A deep audit of vibescoder.dev revealed that Cloudflare was silently blocking every major AI crawler — even after we'd explicitly turned that setting off. Here'

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Slaying the Gemma Beast: How We Fixed Local AI and Shipped Search
Two days ago, Gemma 4 couldn't finish a feature. Today it built one, pushed it to GitHub, and it's...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Open-Sourcing a Blog Without Open-Sourcing Your Drafts
I open-sourced my blog for Giscus comments and immediately found a gutted .gitignore, an exposed server URL, and all my unpublished drafts on GitHub. Here's how

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Model Showdown: Benchmarking Local vs Cloud LLMs on a Real Coding Task
Last post we stood up Ollama on the RTX 5090, pulled a stack of models, and wired them into our...

Dev.to · Rob
1mo ago
Model Showdown Round 2: Adding Gemma, Kimi, and 579 GB of Stubborn Optimism
At the end of Round 1, we promised a rematch. More models. Fixed settings. Harder questions about...

Dev.to · Rob
2mo ago
Incident Management for Teams Without a Dedicated SRE: A Practical Guide
Most incident management advice assumes you have a real SRE function already in place. Dedicated...
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