Wenya Dev Log: An AI Tutor for Kids That Refuses to Give Answers
This is a record of a personal project I’ve been working on lately: Wenya (问芽) , an AI homework tutor for kids that runs on the parent’s own computer. I’m writi…
Bonsai-27B Kept Truncating: It Wasn't llama-server, It Was the Client's maxTokens
Some context first, or the rest won’t make sense: my setup splits work across two machines. One runs Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B through llama-server as a local OpenAI…
Running a 27B Model on 16GB of VRAM: Getting Bonsai 2 Working on Windows
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while: run a local LLM on my Windows machine, plug DeepSeek Harness in as the frontend, and make it reachable from other devi…
Stop Clicking "Yes" to Everything AI Suggests: A Solo Developer's Vibe Coding Horror Stories
Over the past few months, as an indie developer running a one-person company (OPC), I’ve been burning through tokens at a furious pace, taking two products from…
NZ Pathway — The Full Story
I started NZ Pathway because I was annoyed. That’s honestly the best motivation for building anything. I was going through New Zealand’s Skilled Migrant Categor…
Building Ziline — An AI Reading Companion
I read a lot of non-fiction. And I have a problem: I can’t remember half of what I read. Not because I don’t try. I highlight, I take notes, I make Anki cards.…
NZ Pathway Update — Salary Calculator & Better Guides
Two updates on NZ Pathway today. One’s a new tool, the other’s something I should have done a while ago. 💰 Take-Home Pay Calculator The cost-of-living calculat…
Building GPU Fits — Can My GPU Run This LLM?
I keep asking myself the same question: can my GPU actually run this model? Not in theory. In practice. I have an RTX 4090. I want to run Llama 3.3 70B. Do I ne…
NZ Pathway Update — Two New Tools
Just shipped two new tools on NZ Pathway . Both were in the “maybe later” pile until a bunch of DMs convinced me they shouldn’t be. 🇳🇿 NZD Currency Converter…
Building NZ Pathway — Why I Made an Immigration Tool Site
I’ve been going through the New Zealand Skilled Migrant Category process myself. It’s… a lot. And somewhere between digging through INZ PDFs and explaining the…