tag · 7 essays
All essays tagged open-source.
Google dropped Gemma 4, and I had it running locally the same night. What open weights actually mean, the hardware reality, and why the most interesting AI architectures are about to go hybrid — on-device and in the cloud.
An honest look at OpenClaw, the open-source AI personal assistant generating real excitement. What it does, what I learned running it, and why it matters for the future of enterprise AI.
Generative AI is accelerating open-source adoption while quietly breaking the economic models that sustain it. This is not a tooling problem. It’s a policy and incentive failure.
From AWS to GitHub to Podman, MCP servers are quietly becoming the new plug-in ecosystem for developers—and it’s changing how we work.
After building two open-source task managers to battle procrastination, I took it further — secure cloud sync, end-to-end encryption, and now an MCP server that connects your tasks to AI.
After testing every productivity app under the sun, I did what any reasonable engineer would do—I built my own. Two open-source, privacy-first task managers to help procrastinators like me get things done.
Successfully running OpenAI's 20-billion-parameter open-weight model (gpt-oss-20b) locally on a Mac M4 Pro, highlighting the potential of offline AI that rivals cloud-based models without internet dependency or costs.