…Ollama supports open-weight models like Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, and many others. The answer is GPT-4o. It's a closed, proprietary model owned by OpenAI and only accessible through their…
…The stack finally feels stable and genuinely useful. Instead of constantly experimenting, I now spend more time creating, learning, and improving my workflow. Everything runs quietly in the background and supports the…
…I/O throughput improvements make running heavy tail or grep commands a lot snappier, and in terms of emulation, support for the "Synchronized Output" DEC private mode (DECSET 2026) reduces flicker and…
…There are safeguards like Workspace Trust, marketplace scanning, extension signing, and publisher verification prompts. These help reduce risk, but they don’t change the core model where extensions still run with broad…
Jeff Butts Apr 22, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system…
…But WinGet is built in, and because of that, it's very widely supported and has a ton of apps available. But not everyone wants to use the command line to install…
…On tools like Cursor and Windsurf, certain extensions are either not available or don’t work as they should. I have also personally experienced better performance and support for things like Jupyter…
…Since I already had an old Excel file, I could just import that data and clean things up instead of starting from scratch. It also supports pausing or canceling subscriptions without losing…
…in the PC building process you can't ever trust. First is the I/O shield fitting in on the first try, and the second is the BIOS settings your PC ships…
…app fast” and more like “build software properly.” It definitely took more time, but the final codebase felt cleaner, easier to maintain, and far closer to something I’d trust in production…