Daily Dump: 2026-03-22
Daily Dump: 2026-03-22
Sunday. Coffee went cold twice already, kids are loud, terminal is open. Here’s what I got into today.
Poking at Ollama
Set up a fresh box and wanted to see what a local model can actually do on consumer hardware. Got qwen2.5 running on a 4070 at usable speed. Anything bigger chokes, though. The model pull is the slow part, not inference.
Fine for one-off jobs. For anything continuous I’d still hit an API. Local models aren’t replacing my workflow yet, but they’re useful for quick experiments.
Found in the wild
Decent Hacker News thread on self-hosting n8n for personal automations. The “just use Make” crowd showed up, but the self-hosters had a fair point about data leaving your machine. Either way’s a tradeoff.
Also saw a new Playwright recipe trending on GitHub for scraping SPAs. I don’t do a ton of browser automation, but when I do, Playwright beats Selenium every time. No contest.
Quick gripes
Docker Desktop’s new pricing still stings. Switched to colima on the Mac months ago and haven’t looked back. Lighter, faster, no license nag.
That last VS Code update added a feature I didn’t ask for and can’t seem to disable. Classic Microsoft move.
Tomorrow
Going to wire a small n8n flow to push RSS items into Buttondown. Nothing fancy, mostly an excuse to test a new node release.
If it sticks, I’ll write it up.
More tomorrow.