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Dont want to crash the party here, but I am still sceptic about all those on-premise-llm-approaches. I think we strongly need something like that (shameless plug, I tried to build …

shameles self promotion: I posted similar thing a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773805 https://9.1-1-1.de

I was in need of a quick and very simple way to send text from one device to another, like passwords after setting up a new machine, code snippets or whatever. So I build "9". http…

yeah yeah, I here you - we already have plenty of them. But this one is mine. Because all the others I knew where always lacking features. Above all: Shareability! When I did an A/…

I build this self-hostable, PWA-ready fitness tracking app. This is less about the app itself, there are probably dozens of them out there. This is more about me being fascinated a…

the threshold is not low, I would argue, it's just companies like to exploit it. (I just wrote an extensive analysis about that https://nickyreinert.de/2026/2026-05-28-google-maps-…

Security by Obviousness.

shameless plug, it's part of the Nerd Encyclopedia: it's also called "nasal demons". https://nickyreinert.de/2023/2023-05-16-nerd-enzyklop%C3%A4d...

Having an M3 with 36 GByte I was under the assumption, that I can utilize like Qwen and similar models. It's quite easy to set up, you can use pi or hermes for CLI access, or "Cont…

Shameless plug: It's not that fancy but follows the same principle: https://institut-fdh.de/?2026-aya There's also this well known page which does the exact same thing in a more or…

First: if you compare rates (salary, wages,...) you also always must consider rents, cost of living etc. Second: You can't just pick Berlin for comparison. Third: Take away foreign…

Most comments already explained it, however: No! It's a common misunderstanding (imho) that software development is about "writing code" or knowing a programming language's syntax.…

I want to believe. A couple of weeks ago I fell into this "trap", they offered a similar thing. I subscribed to the Pro Plan. Had fun for a couple of weeks and then I entered frust…

shameless plug: A series of Jupyter notebooks explaining the whole machine learning mechanism, from the beginning https://github.com/nickyreinert/DeepLearning-with-PyTorch-fr... an…

I am holding this domain for many years now, switching from one pet-projec to another. Latest idea is this: A toolbox for common image-related tasks: - resizing, cropping and color…

> The internet only took off because the primary business model which ran on ads and derivative information that servers do to their users. quite the opposite I would argue: https:…

That was the goal, yes (⌐■_■)

I can't believe that domain trading is still a thing.. I am sitting on a bunch of "nice" domains; I could never imagine someone actually bought for not even vor 100 bucks... and he…

reminds me of that: https://institut-fdh.de/ but your's is way better implemented it seems - very nice! (disclaimer: it's my site, shameless-plug )

I like the clean style, I was working on something similar, but never reached that readines-level. However, the first screen seems a little contra productive. User entered a paragr…

I like your blog and I can totally relate to this article - it's like something I wanted to write about for a couple of weeks now. :D https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/adhd-ai-agent-perso…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894155 (I am just learning that "a couple of weeks" apparently means "2 weeks"...)

I am trying Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6 since a couple of days now locally coming from OMLX. Either via Hermes or Continue in VS Code. It's oka'ish, even performance-wise. [1] https://hu…

I dare to call meself a senior dev, so I don't need a replacement, I need a tool.