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Introducing Open WebIDE - A Self-Hosted Coding Agent IDE in Rust and WebAssembly

Software Home Lab DIY Rust AI

Local models take a while to respond, and that gets old when you’re sitting at your desk watching a spinner. I’ve been writing about putting a coding agent on every desk, adding a second GPU, and running a fast model in a sidecar. The models keep getting better, but I was still tethered to my desk waiting on them.

The Open WebIDE banner on a dark grid background: a blue house icon containing a terminal prompt, next to the words Open WebIDE, the tagline Your code. Your models. Your browser., and the address openwebide.com.
  • 13 Oct 2026

Introducing OBS HomeRun - Turn your PC into a virtual HDTV tuner

Software Home Lab DIY Rust Linux

In my last post, while talking about using local coding agents on my Bazzite desktop, I breezily mentioned getting my PC screen onto the living room TV:

A hand holding a television remote control pointed toward a turned-on flat screen TV.
  • 07 Oct 2026

The Year of the Linux Desktop? (With Local Agents, Maybe)

Software AI Home Lab DIY

When I was a teenager, I’d buy issues of the now-defunct Maximum Linux magazine and install whatever distribution came on the CD that month, usually Mandrake or something like it. This was on the family computer, to the chagrin of the rest of my family, because I often left it inoperable.

A teenager's bedroom computer desk from the 1990s, with a beige keyboard computer and CRT monitor, a stack of gaming magazines, and a Looney Tunes pencil case, next to a wall of chocolate bar wrappers and Polish posters for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Space Jam.
  • 28 Sep 2026
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Wisconsinite, Software architect, Brewers baseball fan, he/him

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