Ian L. Paterson
Practitioner notes on AI agents, cybersecurity, and building public companies in Canada.
Ian’s personal blog.
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Free LLM API Tiers in 2026: What Groq, Cerebras, Mistral, Gemini and Cohere Actually Give You
In shortA scanner of mine had failed every one of its last forty-seven calls, and I only found out because an unrelated GPU got loud at 86 degrees Celsius. Cerebras…
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Three Green Lies: Debugging a Self-Hosted LLM Observability Dashboard
In shortThe metrics exporter behind every temperature panel had exited 137 two days earlier, when I ran systemctl stop docker for a disk migration. restart: unless-stopped will not revive a…
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How I Drive WordPress From Claude Code (REST, Playwright, wp-cli)
In shortMy Rank Math sitemap had frozen into a snapshot, forty-seven URLs all stamped inside a 4-second window on 2026-04-13. Five documented API paths failed to clear it. Only a…
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Sorting a Filesystem Hoard With Local LLMs: What 2,300 Files Told Me About My Obsidian Vault
In shortThe scan started at 11,930 files, and 84 percent of that was vendored node_modules and .venv noise that every cleanup tool I have used counts as real work. The…
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Anti-detect browser benchmark 2026: 7 stealth tools, 31 Cloudflare targets, 651 verdicts
In shortSeven stealth browsers went against 31 Cloudflare targets, three sweeps each, and only nodriver came back with zero blocked cells. It scores 28 OK because it drives system Chrome…
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Three Months of Speed-Up Experiments on a 3090 Ti: Autoregressive → DFlash → MTP for Qwen3.6-27B
In shortDFlash looked like a 3.44x win until I let the output run long, and decode fell from 46.9 to 30.1 tok/s as the drafter’s KV cache competed for bandwidth.…
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Building llama.cpp from source on a Dell Precision T5820 with an RTX 3090 Ti (after seven power cycles)
In shortSeven BIOS power cycles is what it took before the T5820 would POST with a 3090 Ti in it, and the fix was simply to stop aborting on cycle…
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The LLM Kept Saying “Fixed.” For Three Months, It Wasn’t.
In shortFor three months I pasted the same cron alert into a fresh Claude Code session, got a confident fix, and watched it come back a week later. Each session…
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Where to Work in Victoria BC: Coworking Spaces, Coffee Shops & Remote Work Guide (2026)
In shortWatershed is my top pick and its $25 drop-in is also the cheapest downtown, while KWENCH Fort’s $200 hot desk is the lowest full-service monthly entry point. The density…
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Tech Jobs & Internships in Victoria BC: The Complete Guide (2026)
In shortUVic runs 56 percent co-op participation and 69 percent of those students have an offer before they graduate, which is why Victoria employers compete hard for the same pipeline.…