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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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Capturing screenshots with Chromium using Python
Sometimes you need to take screenshots of the web and Chromium provides an easy way to do that.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-08-06
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
Caddy configuration for Django with some sensible defaults
Caddy is a great web server with sensible defaults but there a few things that I need to configure to have perfect synergy with Django.
Isaac Bythewood
2022-06-04