A personal blog.https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-14https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-14Read Mira’s Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold. ★★★☆☆ Find it on Bookshop.orgSun, 07 Jun 2026 01:06:15 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/running-a-local-coding-agent-on-an-m2-max-32gb-with-ollama-opencodehttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/running-a-local-coding-agent-on-an-m2-max-32gb-with-ollama-opencodeI came across Alex Ewerlöf's excellent write-up, Local LLMs for Agentic Coding, and wanted to reproduce his setup on my own machine. His guide leans on LM Studio driving VS Code Copilot / Pi, with Gemma 4 as the model. My stack is a little different — I run Ollama and opencode — and my hardware is more modest: an Apple M2 Max with 32GB of unified memory. I genuinely expected nothing from this exercise except learning how to set everything up. It turns out it's actually ... usable? The model Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:50:58 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-13https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-13Read Penric’s Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold. ★★★★★ Find it on Bookshop.orgThu, 04 Jun 2026 01:34:08 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-12https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-12Read Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold. ★★★☆☆ Find it on Bookshop.orgMon, 01 Jun 2026 03:42:25 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-11https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-11Read The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman. ★★★★☆ Find it on Bookshop.orgThu, 28 May 2026 02:07:59 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-10https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-10Read Penric’s Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold. ★★★★☆ Find it on Bookshop.orgSun, 24 May 2026 03:02:44 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-9https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-9Read Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold. ★★★★☆ Find it on Bookshop.orgSat, 23 May 2026 16:30:26 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-8https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-8Read Desperation by Stephen King. ★★★☆☆ Desperation (Mass Market Paperback) by Stephen King Find it on Bookshop.orgSun, 17 May 2026 18:03:57 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/goodreads-microbloghttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/goodreads-microblog I read a lot. I also run a Ghost blog at partiallypeaceful.com. For years, I'd finish a book, rate it on Goodreads, and that was it. Maybe I'd remember to post something on the blog. Usually I wouldn't. I wanted every book I read to show up on partiallypeaceful.com. Not as a big review post. Just a short microblog entry: cover image, star rating, a few thoughts if I wrote a review, and a link to buy it somewhere that isn't Amazon. So I built a cron job. It runs once a day, checks my GoodreadsFri, 15 May 2026 18:28:26 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-6https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-6Read The Long Walk by Richard Bachman. ★★★★☆ The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback) by Richard Bachman Find it on Bookshop.orgFri, 15 May 2026 12:40:25 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-5https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-5Read A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck. ★★★★☆ Find it on Bookshop.orgSun, 10 May 2026 23:48:58 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-7https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-7The best thing about the r1 is the cameraSat, 09 May 2026 14:02:44 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/your-12-year-old-laptop-doesnt-need-replacing-linux-needs-tuninghttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/your-12-year-old-laptop-doesnt-need-replacing-linux-needs-tuningLinux ships with memory management defaults designed for systems with plenty of RAM. Give it a machine with 3.3 GB and a few modern apps competing for that space, and those defaults are too conservative to prevent freezes. This is my 2013 MacBook Air – Intel Core i5 Haswell at 1.4 GHz, 3.3 GB RAM, new SSD, new battery, running Ubuntu 26.04. It was locking up about once a session. I was close to buying a replacement. Instead I spent an afternoon on three config changes. The machine now runs witSat, 02 May 2026 18:51:47 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-4https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-4Sat, 02 May 2026 02:11:23 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-3https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-3No ButtsSun, 26 Apr 2026 21:01:10 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-2https://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitled-2The Dynamic DuoThu, 23 Apr 2026 16:08:26 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/behind-the-scenes-rss-deployment-and-crawl-hygienehttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/behind-the-scenes-rss-deployment-and-crawl-hygieneOver the past few days I've been doing behind-the-scenes work on this site – stuff that doesn't change how anything looks but makes it work properly as a thing that exists on the internet. RSS feeds. The most user-facing change: the site now has RSS feeds. There's a main feed at /rss.xml covering all posts, plus individual feeds for each tag page, so you can subscribe to just hiking or just software projects. I added this via the @astrojs/rss package, which was straightforward once I had the GhSat, 18 Apr 2026 14:46:56 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/an-hour-a-claude-sub-agent-and-a-weird-worldhttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/an-hour-a-claude-sub-agent-and-a-weird-worldMy Rabbit R1 now plays Grateful Dead shows on demand. I built it in an hour last night using a Claude sub-agent and SpecKit. It is completely useless. It might also be a small window into where software is heading. Here's what I mean. On Tuesday I wrote about open source software changing in front of us. The argument was pretty simple: when a language model can help you spin up a custom version of almost any tool for your specific needs, the traditional reason to open source something gets murFri, 17 Apr 2026 16:29:16 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/new-blog-stack-what-worked-what-didnthttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/new-blog-stack-what-worked-what-didntI shut down my VPS. After years of paying to run WordPress on a server I managed myself, Partially Peaceful now runs as a static site on Cloudflare Pages. Here's what I built and what I'd do differently. The stack Ghost handles writing and publishing. It runs in a Docker container on a private machine – reachable only over Tailscale, my personal VPN mesh. No public Ghost URL exists. I post from my phone the same way I always did; the Ghost mobile interface is solid. Cloudflare R2 holds all mFri, 17 Apr 2026 02:05:42 GMThttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitledhttps://www.partiallypeaceful.com/untitledThu, 16 Apr 2026 13:35:53 GMT