Butter, What?!
September 3025
Join Us At Texas Linux Fest 2025!
We have our own Butter, What?! booth at Texas Linux Fest this year! If you are in Austin on October 3 or 4, you should stop by our booth and say hello!
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Butter, What?!
September 3025
Butter, What?!
June 3025
A LEGO-Inspired Homelab -- Building Modular NAS Storage and Computer Servers
Analogies always have flaws. I struggled to come up with a good analogy for piecing together a homelab from a collection of mini PCs, USB hard drives, and USB SATA enclosures. I keep coming back to LEGOS. They were one...
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Butter, What?!
January 3025
Do You Need A 21-Gram Fingertip Mouse For FPS Gaming
I have been doing a bad job keeping track of how quickly my 3D-printed ultralight fingertip mouse project, the Li’l Magnum!, has been progressing. I took the first photos on January 8, so that means I have been using this...
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briancmoses.com
October 2026
DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N300 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.
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patshead.com
September 2026
Can Your 16 GB GPU Run a Coding Harness? Local LLMs in 2026
I started writing this blog post during the first few days of September, and it was just about ready to publish the day before ByteShape released their quants of Qwen 3.8 27B. That goofed up the flow of my post…
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patshead.com
May 2026
Pi Coding Agent – From Barebones to Better Than OpenCode
I have been using OpenCode since November. I am a light user of coding harnesses, but I do use OpenCode almost every single day. I have tried out Pi in the past, but only to take advantage of its tiny…
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patshead.com
April 2026
Using An Android Tablet As Second Independent Display And Macropad At My Desk
I have had a small problem ever since downsizing from two 27” monitors to a single ultrawide 34” monitor. I don’t mind that I gave up one third of my screen real estate, because I had to turn my head…
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patshead.com
April 2026
Home Assistant Voice Control With a $56 GPU and Local Machine Learning
The last time we visited this topic, I had ordered a used 8 GB Radeon RX 580 for $56, and I had tested most of the capabilities required for Home Assistant voice control. A local LLM was smart and fast…
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patshead.com
March 2026
OpenCode Go Coding Plan From A Light User’s Perspective
I start all of these blog posts about coding plans the same way. You need to understand my perspective. I am a light user. I don’t spend all day writing code. I don’t need bleeding-edge models, and I will never…
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patshead.com
March 2026
OpenAI Codex with OpenCode – My Experience After a Month
I think it is important to explain my perspective. I am not a professional software developer, but I do use OpenCode almost every day. I am not writing massive applications. I rarely hit the limits of the lowest price coding…
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