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An agentic loop in Go for a small local model
I run my own assistant on a 9B at home and the tool calling loop in it is a few hundred lines of Go, most of which is there to stop it offering to look something up instead of looking it up.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20
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Using Vite with Django in 2026
I ran webpack on every Django project I had for years but in 2026 I use Vite instead, with no wrapper package involved, and this is the whole setup I use.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-26
Using EditorConfig to improve coding style consistency
EditorConfig has been around for almost a decade at this point. It is widely supported by many editors natively and many more with plugins.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-21
Self-host your fonts
The shared cache argument for Google Fonts died in 2020 and the privacy argument was never great. Self-hosting with @fontsource is a one line change.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-05-03