Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
DeepSeek’s official Harness desktop app is nearly ready. Run V4.1 Flash daily? Then this is the client worth waiting for. Here is the state of it. A few days ago people noticed a desktop client branch inside the DeepSeek Harness repository. Compiling it yourself was the only way to run it. Now the main branch … Read more
A Codex session that ends well and one that ends in a mess start the same way. Same model, same repo, same person. The difference shows up a week later. That gap is not about prompts. It is about how you set the project up before any code exists, and how you hand work to … Read more
I was eating cereal at my desk when it occurred to me that I’d opened WorkBuddy eleven times yesterday and finished none of the tasks I’d opened it for. I’ve been messing with WorkBuddy for a few days now. The official goal was to build myself a cleaner workbench. The actual result, looking back, is … Read more
I’ve been watching people compare WorkBuddy and Codex for a while now, and honestly? I don’t think they understand what they’re comparing. Here’s the short version: if you’ve used Codex deeply, you’re probably never going to touch WorkBuddy. And that’s fine. WorkBuddy’s actual users are people who never needed Codex in the first place. I’ve … Read more
I’ve been messing with website performance for a while now. And one thing that kept coming up? Image sizes. Big images slow everything down. Visitors bounce. Google notices. It’s a whole thing. So I started looking into WebP. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s an image format Google cooked up. The idea is simple: … Read more
DeepSeek’s API is cheap. Like, really cheap. Cheaper than almost anything else out there. That alone makes it worth a look. But here’s the thing — I spent a good chunk of last week hitting every error code they have. Not on purpose at first. But after I tripped over a few, I figured I … Read more
I started using DeepSeek’s API about three weeks ago. Not because I needed another AI tool — I already pay for a few — but because a friend kept mentioning how cheap it was. I figured I’d burn a few bucks, test it out, and forget about it. I didn’t forget about it. But I … Read more
DeepSeek Harness just got another update. RC.8 landed two days after RC.7, and it’s not just a bug-fix release. This one changes how the whole thing works. The short version: DeepSeek Harness is turning into a dispatch layer for AI agents. You give it a task, it works out which agent should handle which part, … Read more
I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for about a year now. It’s good. Really good. But not everyone wants to pay $10 a month for autocomplete. Some people code once a week. Some are students. Some just want to see if AI-assisted coding actually helps them before committing to a subscription. So I spent the last … Read more
Got a bunch of these emails this morning. “Password reset request for your account.” Over and over. From my own site. I didn’t ask for any of them. Someone, or something, was poking the “lost password” button on piall.com. Annoying? Yes. Scary? Not really. At least not after I looked closer. Here’s the thing. WordPress … Read more