Short notes on tech 17/2026

AI edition of short notes

Artificial Intelligence enhances software development and speeds up things and you can quick vibe code this and that. Here’s some links and tools.

AI Tools

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama
“Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else’s engine. Here’s the full history, and why the alternatives are better.”

RTK
“High-performance CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90%. rtk filters and compresses command outputs before they reach your LLM context. Single Rust binary, 100+ supported commands, <10ms overhead.”

pi.dev
“There are many coding agents, but this one is mine.”

nono
“Runtime safety infrastructure for AI agents. Kernel-enforced isolation, supply-chain security, immutable auditing, atomic rollbacks, credential management, and more.”

Everything Claude Code
“The performance optimization system for AI agent harnesses. From an Anthropic hackathon winner.”

gstack
“Use Garry Tan’s exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA”

HALmark
“HALmark is a stewardship benchmark for LLMs that generate or modify Home Assistant (HA) configuration, especially YAML and Jinja templates. “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that… Safely””

Awesome GitHub Copilot
“Community-contributed agents, instructions, and skills to enhance your GitHub Copilot experience”

GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners
“Learn to supercharge your development workflow with AI-powered command-line assistance.”

Games

Euclidea
“The Largest Collection of Interactive Geometric Puzzles”

Tools

Fotoxi
“Local photo and video management tool. Indexes media from OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud Drive and local folders. Creates a searchable metadata database with EXIF data, perceptual hashes, and optional AI descriptions via Ollama. Detects and helps resolve duplicates.”


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