Daily Journal 📓 October 2026

New to me: Appmosphe.re “Little web apps, published to your own repo”, another delightful @robin.berjon.com project. It’s an aggregator for WebTiles, source on Tangled. @pyxorium.com is making some mixtapes that look lovely.

André Staltz @staltz.com wrote about Time Till Open Source Alternative four years ago. Now, the time is zero because of coding agents.

He see three main themes for software: demonetization, remixable & personalization, software as content.

First run of Mistral3 8B Q4 model on Steam Machine — ~700 tok/s prompt processing and ~43 tok/s token generation using llama.cpp.

Going to put llama-swap on there to try out a couple of different models…which is written by my old friend Benson @mostlygeek.bsky.social!

I got a Steam Machine. It’s called Hearth and you can read some initial notes on the install. I’ve been hanging out on the desktop and don’t even have any games installed yet.

oh, btw…

Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

So @computer.bringyourown.computer didn’t manage to wipe over the network, but back office + Mac dock with Ethernet got it up and running. TinyHome lives! On to a 2-node proxmox cluster, just because!

⭐️ depatchedmode/oughta How we oughta do things. Skills, conventions, and guidance for coding agents.