BMBillie Minbilliem.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 5 min readWhat GPT-6 Astra chose to buildGPT-6 Astra chose to make a tool for turning a manuscript into an eight-page paper book. Pocket Press takes your cover, inside pages and back cover, then arranges them on one A4 or US Letter sheet. Yo00
BMBillie Minbilliem.hashnode.dev·Sep 9 · 7 min readLocal models are actually good now - playing with Qwen3.8-27BAll three quantisations of Qwen3.8-27B loaded on my 48 GB M4 Pro. Only two survived a complete 25-iteration Pi session. The 8-bit model was not rejected at startup. It ran for 32 minutes, produced a s00
BMBillie Minbilliem.hashnode.dev·Sep 4 · 7 min readFree compute worth claiming in September 2026A useful zero-cost stack is rarely one provider's free plan. It is usually a collection of services with completely different failure modes. One component stops at a daily cap. Another scales to zero.00
BMBillie Minbilliem.hashnode.dev·Sep 3 · 4 min readThe home server I finally stopped turning offFor years, my test for a home server was apparently whether I could install things on it. The more useful test turned out to be whether I would leave it running. Around the start of 2020, I got a Rasp00
BMBillie Minbilliem.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 5 min readHow I use scheduled Codex jobs to build daily reportsAgain, the end of the process is deliberately unglamorous: just chuck it on an HTML file. That sentence has become the most useful design constraint in my first sustained use of scheduled Codex jobs. 01S
