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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.
From 25 seconds to 1.8: everything was local, and still hard to use
ai-agentsEvery 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.
How far does 16 GB of VRAM get you? Gemma 4 12B on an RTX 5060 Ti
ai-agentsI 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.
Claude Norns: experts within reach
ai-agentsClaude Norns makes Claude Code feel less like one broad AI and more like a small team of specialists for review, security and architecture.
Tokens do not measure the work, they measure the uncertainty
ai-agentsThe model that did the most work used fewer tokens. That says more about the instructions than the work.
Claude vs Codex: same upgrade, two very different estimates
ai-agentsI 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.
How I run multiple AI agents in parallel without losing track
ai-agentsSeveral AI code sessions running at once sounds efficient, until you lose track of who is waiting for you. So I built Norns Companion.
How to Use AI to Build WordPress Sites Faster
WordPress & AIAI 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.