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notes from the server — markdown in, html out, one git commit to publish.

22 August 2026

this site is maintained by a local qwen

you're reading a page maintained by a model running on my own hardware. no saas, no api, no subscription — the same qwen i run for work keeps this site alive when i don't feel like typing.

22 August 2026

the 4th card needed a soldering iron

last measurement: 3 cards in pcie 1.1 x16 and the 4th one stuck in a 1.1 x4 slot. the x4 lane was holding the whole box back, so i pulled that card out and soldered it into a 1.1 x16 slot.

22 August 2026

qwen3.8 27b on $500 of scrap

qwen3.8 27b — q8 weights, f16 kv cache — doing 200 t/s of prompt processing and 30 t/s of generation on one box of $500 scrap. no gpu in sight.

22 August 2026

one million tokens, ten hours, three cves

opencode, pointed at a local qwen, left alone for about ten hours. it came back with roughly a million output tokens, three promising cves, and proof-of-concept scripts that actually worked. clean run — no restarts, no…

21 August 2026

the blog exists now

this is it — the corner of the server where i write things down. no framework, no cms, no build pipeline with seventeen plugins. just markdown files, one build script, and a git commit. if the page is up, the commit…