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I'm Daniel. I work with web platforms by day and spend my evenings tinkering with AI, automation and smart home stuff. This is where I write about what I learn along the way.

Solution architect. Writing about web development, AI and automation in practice.

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ai-agentsAug 2026

From 25 seconds to 1.8: everything was local, and still hard to use

Every part of my local voice assistant was fast and the assistant was still slow. I trace the latency, split the system into routes and explain the move to Swedish.

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ai-agentsJul 2026

How far does 16 GB of VRAM get you? Gemma 4 12B on an RTX 5060 Ti

I test Gemma 4 12B as the local brain for my family assistant on a 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti, including performance, failures and the boundary with cloud AI.

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ai-agentsJul 2026

Claude Norns: experts within reach

Claude Norns makes Claude Code feel less like one broad AI and more like a small team of specialists for review, security and architecture.

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ai-agentsJun 2026

Tokens do not measure the work, they measure the uncertainty

The model that did the most work used fewer tokens. That says more about the instructions than the work.

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ai-agentsJun 2026

Claude vs Codex: same upgrade, two very different estimates

I let Claude and Codex estimate the same Drupal 10 to 11 upgrade using the same skill. The estimates differed considerably, but the interesting part is why.

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ai-agentsJun 2026

How I run multiple AI agents in parallel without losing track

Several AI code sessions running at once sounds efficient, until you lose track of who is waiting for you. So I built Norns Companion.

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WordPress & AIFeb 2026

How to Use AI to Build WordPress Sites Faster

AI tools have changed how I build WordPress sites. From code generation to content planning, here is how I use them in practice without giving up review and judgment.

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Elsewhere

Things I do elsewhere: reviews at Nordic Hardware, code on GitHub and other bits and pieces.