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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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Why not make your own dashboard in 2026
I was checking the same six tabs all day out of habit so I built one page with all of it on it, and it only took a couple of evenings.
Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-10
Generating a ED25519 SSH key with OpenSSH
OpenSSH has deprecated RSA keys. Time to swap to ED25519 with a few quick commands as well as an easy way to ease into the swap with host key configurations.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-07
Make your own new tab browser extension in 50 lines of code
There are plenty of home page and new tab replacement extensions on the Chrome Web Store that you could use, but why not make your own if it's easy?
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-09