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I've been quite looking forward to playing a new game by the name of WARDOGS to the point where I pre-ordered it and got to participate in the closed beta testing.

I occasionally reconsider my software choices and when a better package, distro or text editor becomes available, I give it a fair shot.

A while ago I started working on a custom launcher for Claude Code that'd let me run the harness with 3rd party providers (models like DeepSeek, Kimi from Moonshot AI, GLM from Z.ai, providers like OpenRouter etc.) and features like Remote Control easily.

To answer the titular question up front, while I can't predict the future, Anthropic is still one of the best options for agentic development.

As I've previously written, I like to get hardware that works and then just stick with it.

It seems that the media chips in Intel Arc B580 (and similar) GPUs don't handle streaming and recording that well, while the GPU is overloaded - instead of making the game FPS drop and keeping the stream and recording stable and smooth, they focus on givi…

Last month Zhipu AI released a new model: GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks Since then, it has climbed most of the open model coding oriented leaderboards and now sits at the top, also closely trailing Anthropic's Opus models: This caught my attention,

Today I don't have the most information dense post for you, but I'd like to share something that makes me irrationally angry regardless: AI slop.

About a year ago, I wrote an article called "AI, artisans and brainrot", which was some time before the inflection point late in 2025 that many noticed, where the LLMs got noticeably better at writing code and agentic development truly took off.

You might notice that my blog now looks a bit different from how it used to!

I'm creating a simple developer utility to make managing Claude Code profiles (e.g. running it with DeepSeek, or some OpenRouter models) a little bit easier.

Recently, the Zed editor had its 1.0 release.

Here's a quick tutorial on how to work around an annoying issue on Windows.

This post is in Latvian, because the conference and the accompanying slides were also in Latvian.

It's been a while since I last looked over the pond, at what the Americans are doing.

A while back, I learnt of the practice of buying white label and recertified hard drives: the idea being that large batches of good drives sometimes get returned to OEMs by hyperscalers.

Okay, so I'm a little bit late with this one.

Near the end of the last year, my father, Pēteris Kronis, passed away.

There is this one old HackerNews post that sometimes people reference, when talking about how engineers view software: It's an observation of how the trend goes: a new product or service comes out an engineer looks at it and says "Anyone could build this…

Suppose I have a legacy project, or even just an older project that I worked on previously and now want to carry over the mechanisms that made it work, to a new one.

Here's a short post: I think AIOs or All-In-One coolers are the superior cooling solution, both to air coolers and custom liquid cooling loops for the average user!

In my previous article about my investments on Revolut in 2025 (plot twist: AMD's value just spiked and fell a bit afterwards, that's how those things go), I mentioned that I live a fairly Spartan lifestyle and get the things I need, rather than the ones I

I thought I'd make a casual blog post and talk a little bit about the investments I have done in 2025 so far and how they've turned out.

At the start of this month, I had an outage where more or less everything I host went down.

So, for most of the week, my blog, homepage and some other sites have been down, so let's talk about brittle software!

Recently, I went to a software development event in Germany, where, at the conclusion of one of the days, I was hanging out in a hotel room with a friend of mine.

Previously, I explored why having two Intel Arc cards in the same PC is a bit of a mess: Two Intel Arc GPUs in one PC: worse than expected A little bit later, I discovered that Windows 11 fixes some of the issues and that most games and programs, but not…

Recently, there's been a European Citizens' Initiative called "Stop Destroying Videogames" which by now has hit the milestone of 1'000'000 signatures.

I like the concept of containers and I like Docker.

Here's a blog post of something positive that I recently experienced: the Windows bootloader is actually kinda cool!

Recently I posted about the woes of trying to run two Intel Arc GPUs in the same system and how I couldn't easily use Windows 10 because it doesn't let me split tasks between them properly, nor use one of the cards for encoding in OBS, because the support…

Software licensing is a bit of a mess.