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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My agent was trying to skip pre-commit hooks. Bad agent! Now it no longer can do that.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Running a docker container inside a VM? No problem, it doesn't require all that much either!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jev is a cool model for some use cases. But completely closed and I've seen some pretty wild but wrong statements about it. Lucky there's open-source Laya: laya.convaiinnovations.com

laya.convaiinnovations.com

Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine

Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is that a container running as a VM on my machine? with a shell that I can use? I think, this is going to be pretty awesome!

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

De video waarvan Meta niet wil dat je ‘m ziet

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kotlin is the only one on the JVM that's crap to work with in Neovim. Time to fix that people! You're "open-source" right now.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@mthmulders.bsky.social Do I cause leaking heart valves on your end when I say Scala 3?

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've been running Omarchy for a few weeks now. Couple of observations: It integrates with agents of several suppliers. When something crashes, you can call an agent to help fix the issue. This is a big big win for the Linux desktop.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Doing a bit of work on our internal agent sandboxing solution to improve the agentic harness used to build the sandbox. It needs a little love ;-)

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My oldest son wants to learn to program. He specifically wants to learn Java, because he's seen that it's a good language to work with. I think a few of my readers here will approve 🤌

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And then there were no lights anymore in the factory hall. Yesterday I presented a case study we worked on at Info Support to test what it would take to run a dark factory with agents to build software.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Figuring out a way to run a very tiny software factory at home from my desktop. Basically, I have a workplace app where I can work on specs that are then queued in the factory for my local agent to pick up in a sandbox environment like docker sandboxes.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It turns out that creating a good quality powerpoint template is very hard. Wish me luck fighting this rather broken template....

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Preparing more goodies for this weekend! Packaging up the Docker Sandbox template I'm using for oh-my-pi so that people can try it.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's the final week for the ISKS at Info Support. And there's a Q-event where I'm showing the work that a bunch of people have done over the past weeks/months to get our internal LLM hosting up and running.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Quickly packaging up my Qwen 3.8 Flash Next setup for a few colleagues to run on their DGX machine. Hopefully I can have that done before the meetings start today.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My open-source agent keeps surprising me. It takes screenshots of grafana, for example, to verify the dashboard works. Very nice!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reading up on the abliterated version of Qwen 3.8. This is not for the weak of heart. It is actually downright dangerous to use. I'm going to have a chat with one or two managers to discuss options... my goodness.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That's a lot of fun from a bunch of old laptop parts and a mini ITX motherboard. I had the pleasure of learning how to use talos and flux. The kids are having fun with minecraft. Money well spent!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Omarchy 4 comes with agents built-in. You can configure a default agent to analyze crashes, for example. And you can ask questions about the operating system to your agent. It's quite good actually.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Running Talos Linux on the homeserver with Kubernetes. Now setting up persistent volumes. Hopefully I can have minecraft running tonight :D

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reading up on what the people at Omarchy have been doing. They apparently started a foundation to improve several Linux desktop kits and tools. It's pretty amazing to be honest.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Steno, my dictation tool, is available on my github: github.com/wmeints/steno Works on Linux, so you'd need that. But it's a good idea to switch ;-)

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GitHub - wmeints/steno: An open-source dictation tool for Linux using local models

An open-source dictation tool for Linux using local models - wmeints/steno

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The final day of vacation is here. And just in time, I managed to get the dictation tool working. It now works on any Linux desktop environment with local models only. It notifies you when it's recording and when it's done.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hahaaah! I can now press Ctrl+Super on my machine, explain what I want, and it will type it in! From anywhere too!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Modern software development. No code editor in sight. I might as well turn of the monitor, because I'm not looking most of the time. On the left, the stack of agents running. On the right the monitoring with grafana/prometheus doing its thing. Not shown: A super-heated DGX spark box at 88.9C.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Running Qwen 3.8 Flash on my DGX machine. I found a nice task to test it. Fix 50 ruff-reported python code style issues involving method complexity and docstring style errors.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Bought parts to build a home server based on one of those NUC kind of computers. I had some old memory lying around and a still operational SSD from an old laptop. That shaved like 800 euros off the total cost. I feel like a tinkerer now!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just went past 1B tokens on my open-source setup. Am I a token billionaire now? I find the whole notion kind of wrong to be honest.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another update on the OSS LLM project: I disabled the supervisor in oh-my-pi. After analyzing the transcripts I found out it only responded once every few hours. I can use those tokens for something useful now.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today the next version of Qwen 3.8 dropped on huggingface. The flash version with built-in MTP-based speculative decoding. Downloading of course :P huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...

huggingface.co

Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In more serious news. Postgres 19 is getting graph support. If you haven't found time to learn Postgres, this is a great time to get stuck in: www.postgresql.org/docs/19/ddl-...

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5.15. Property Graphs

5.15. Property Graphs # A property graph is a way to represent database contents, as an alternative to the usual (in …

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The world is rather miserable at times. This roasted potato recipe is here to help you get through it all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs1U...

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How To Make Slow-Cooked Russet Potatoes That Fall Right Off The Bone

YouTube video by The Onion

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Made a nice grafana dashboard for my DGX machine, because well, yeah, I had to :P Going to save this one, I have a strong feeling others might find this very useful.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Back from a fun day with the kids riding really really old trams in Arnhem in the open air museum, it's time to benchmark the sglang setup to find that sweet spot for max output generation speed with highest quality possible.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've been testing with hindsight for two days now. I can see some effects in how the coding agent is reasoning now. It doesn't have a massive effect though.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just made a MCP server for the Albert Heijn API so I can let my agent put together the shopping list for our groceries. With proper login support :P

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Day 5, switching things up for the sake of speed. I downloaded a different NVFP4 variant of the qwen 3.8 model (thx @bastoker.bsky.social). It's a lot faster. Now I need to increase the draft tokens to get real speed.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cost savings are stacking up ;-)

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On day 4 of my personal dictation tool: I'm going to use an advisor model in oh-my-pi that steps in when the main model gets things wrong. In essence, I'm letting qwen 3.8 correct qwen 3.8 ;-) Also, I learned that having the wrong temperature, top_p, and penalty settings breaks the model pretty bad

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I went back to my code and remade a few things in the code. I made sure it now uses tokio since this application is I/O bound. I also improved the module structure so that it is easier to review. The problem with this sort of low-level code is that the agent tends to create spaghetti code.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Day three of my dictation app project. I learned a lot about keyboard input in linux. You can grab the keyboard via evdev (the generic input driver: linux.die.net/man/4/evdev) and process key presses. However, you must forward them, otherwise your desktop won't work!

linux.die.net

evdev(4): Generic input driver - Linux man page

evdev is an Xorg input driver for Linux's generic event devices. It therefore supports all input devices that the kernel knows about, including most mice, ...

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hilarious to watch! The review army is going at it!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Managed to get the first pieces of Steno, my personal dictation tool for Linux, working in a daemon process with just agents and open-source models! I'm now working on getting the review process up and running properly. Oh my pi doesn't include a review skill, so I need to roll my own.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hah! My first experience completely breaking the keyboard and mouse input in linux. When you capture an input device, you need to forward it again to a virtual input device. Otherwise.... well, you have to push the reset button!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Made a few more changes to my harness in oh-my-pi. Now, when the agent edits a rust file, it triggers clippy to validate the code is correct. I also added a small extension to verify the tests run after each turn of the agent. This way I can instantly let the agent know it did something weird.

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Managed to build a pretty decent harness for my Rust application. Enough hacking for today. Time to get some sleep!

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Willem Meints @willemmeints.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Exploring a bunch of Linux subsystems to capture audio, send notifications, and work with virtual input devices. It's a pretty operating system for sure.

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