Isaac Bythewood's Blog
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An agentic loop in Go for a small local model
I run my own general purpose assistant on a 9B at home, and the tool calling loop in it is about two hundred lines, most of which is stopping it telling me it could look something up if I wanted.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20
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Optimizing SQLite for Django in production
Django's default SQLite settings are fine for development but will hit "database is locked" errors under any concurrency. This is the config I run in production.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-18
Using CodeMirror to show formatted code in Wagtail
Going through all the steps to use CodeMirror with Wagtail to show formatted code on the frontend of your site.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-06-11
Rewriting my blog in Rust
I rewrote this blog from Flask to Rust over an afternoon. The result is a single 3.5 MB binary that uses 14x less memory and serves 10x more requests per second.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-06