A little bit of travel this week for work, but back in the saddle now. Anything good happen this week?

AI: Local Models Memory I thought running multiple AI agents locally meant loading the model into memory once per agent. Turns out model weights are shared - only the KV-cache scales per request. Here’s what I learned and ho...

New post on what I learned recently about how AI models get loaded onto systems. I was thinking about it wrong. Instead of an instance per agent, it is an instance once, and then multiple agents use memory (high level here, not deep).

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#localAI #networkAutomation

Good reminder, and that they never get out quick enough!

Any significant changes in the announcing crews?

I'd take that any day at the moment. A dumping of heavy white snow ❄️ hit pretty good. Increasing my desire to spend money on a new 2-stage snow thrower. Or to move south somewhere..

AI: The Quick RSS Feed Fix My RSS feeds broke during the Hugo migration. Instead of re-learning the details myself, I handed it to Harry. Here’s how it got fixed.

My RSS feed broke after moving to Hugo. Instead of debugging it myself, I handed it to my AI agent (Harry/OpenClaw). He diagnosed it, drafted a PR, hit a snag, pivoted to Cloudflare Redirects, and verified the fix. I just reviewed and approved.

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The more that I use AI tools throughout the day the more I'm convince that we are here. This is what I have been looking forward to for so long to be able to have available

Tried to migrate my OpenClaw Harry over to use Gemini pro preview 3.1 this morning. No dice.

What have I been missing?! This is another group of folks that I definitely need to hear.

I've put together some thoughts on where AI is exploding. It's gone from "it's there" to constant use — meeting transcriptions, tackling complex challenges — and it's only getting better.

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What novel ideas are you using AI for?

How OpenClaw Works: The Architecture Behind the 'Magic' YouTube video by Damian Galarza

This video really helped to explain for me as well of the OpenClaw connection and the use of event triggers. Where events can be time, email, human prompting.

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And the biggest thing is putting together all of the practices of having a good Planning time, then into mocks, to code reviews, security reviews, etc.

Then on the code writing front, this is where ClaudeCode is still incredibly strong. I have been doing some things in getting some personal apps, such as one for my daughter's softball team ready. ClaudeCode is still really excelling at that deep level writing.

That is definitely going to be one of my early next posts, but I will definitely put thoughts out here.

I'm seeing a distinct difference in the how and the depth. On the home front of working with my house, being an assistant that just happens to be awesome at code and deep research.

Spent hours failing to set up cloud-init VMs in my home lab. Gave #ClaudeCode a shot — working setup in ~20 minutes.
Wrote up the whole experience 👇

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How are you using AI for infrastructure tasks?

I've got 20 minutes left before the weekly usage limits reset on my Claude plan. TIme to see what I can crunch in before then. A whole new world living in.

Earlier I asked OpenClaw to complete some deeper research on a research effort/project that we were building...

All the hype happening these days with agents and such. I think I need to go back and watch The Matrix again...

I'm the latest into the whole OpenClaw environment. I got it to a point that I could actually talk to a local LLM, but that experience was a bit of bad quality. I moved back to the standard set up with Opus 4.5 and that is it. And just wow.

It’s been a good week of PTO so far. Going to be diving into AI and the MCP world.

Welcome to 2026! It's off with a bang already. I'm getting back into the social seen a little bit. I wrapped up 2026 by learning a few more tricks to have up my sleeve to be able to tackle the days ahead more efficiently. With a little help from YouTube.

Still…..

I made the move back to Hugo Congo (github.com/jpanther/congo) this weekend with a little anti-gravity help. I think I like the polish of it a bit better versus the straight technical look.

Been diving into helping automate my day to day on my machine lately. Interestingly enough it is using Apple Shortcuts for this. The most recent automation is involving setting the default microphone. Using the external mic rather than the airpods once they reconnect.

I need to make sure to find you. I have a book that I need signed from you! :)

Pretty awesome morning in Austin for #autocon4. Got a good run in seeing @drewcm.bsky.social on the path before getting things started with Nautocon!

This is definitely strong automation and reducing the amount of effort needed to get to Event Driven automation. Truly awesome work.

One of the craziest plays that I have ever seen. Quite the heads up and knowing what was going on.

Got rolling with @tailscale.com this week. What an awesome experience. And the best part is that it works properly with CarPlay as well! My new strong recommendation.

When chatbots ask you to verify your contact information after logging into the web interface, something is wrong.

Asking Gemini and ChatGPT, both suggest to not do what this tech suggested.

Time to complete my move to Android. Apple is incompetent.

Just talked to Apple support about why my phone Home & Lock Screen is chewing thru battery. They now suggest to force close every app when not in use. That will save battery. I thought we were supposed to leave them all open?