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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Running a simple Django website in Docker
Using Docker to run a simple production and development environments with a few extras thrown in. Easily customized to your preferred language or framework.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-05-14
Minimal automated updates for Alpine Linux
Many Linux distros have a way to configure automated updates but somewhat surprisingly Alpine Linux does not.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-16
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