Practice & Guides
What you can build yourself: a site, an agent, a node.
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The 17.3-Gigabyte Question
Two image models, one graphics card: Qwen-Image-2.1 against Z-Image Turbo, 30 prompts each. Qwen needed 17.3 GB of weights on a 12 GB card and was 2.65 times slower — but the interesting part is where the time actually goes, and which model wins on sharpness versus tone.
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Build Your Own Site on Nostr
No server, no account, no bill. A step-by-step guide to publishing your own website on Nostr, written from actually building one - including the three failures that produce no error message.
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Spin Up a Hermes Agent: Agentic AI Without Handing Over Your Business
What it takes to run a Hermes agent on your own hardware, why a local model cannot do the job, and why renting the intelligence is the sensible half of the deal.
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One String Decides Where Your Reply Lands
NIP-10 replies built with nostr-sdk carry a 'reply' marker and no root tag, so clients read them as standalone notes. Your replies appear in your own feed; the people you answered never see them. The fix is one keyword argument, and the bug leaves a fingerprint you can count on your own account.