William (Bill) Kennedy

@goinggo.net

⌯Go ⦁ Walking the line between correctness and comprehension ⦁ bill@ardanlabs.com ⦁ kronkai.com ⦁ wife(aleintech.com) ⦁ GoBridge

I got to meet Steve Yegge in Montreal. Super nice guy and we had a short but interesting conversation. TL;DR We need to recognize developers are writing code even when a tool is performing the work. Engineering means the developer steers the model, not the other way around.

If you have 8 GB VRAM or even 16 GB VRAM you can play with OpenCode now with Kronk. 16 GB: Qwopus3.5-4B-Coder.Q8_0 8 GB: gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL If you install or clone Kronk for the first time, the model config and opencode settings will have this support.

"Free Yourself From The Copilot Tax" The hardworking @goinggo.net & friends have been building all the high-level tooling/APIs for local inference on top of @yzma.ai Kronk looks great & works very well. Perfect timing to take control of your destiny! www.kronkai.com/blog/free-yo...

Free Yourself From The Copilot Tax

GitHub Copilot's switch to token-based billing is turning $29 subscriptions into $750 bills overnight, and developers are right to be furious. This post shows you how to walk away from the meter entir...

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Looking for recommendations for bsky native iPadOS app. The official one is just the iOS one inflated and is unsatisfying. Asking for a friend. I am that friend.