3D printing a benchy takes 20 minutes on my printer. Here it is done in under 2 minutes with dry-ice cooling. Hilarious prototype, I hope they keep going. www.youtube.com/shorts/0EA5X...

It looks like the reign of dual boilers for home espresso machines is ending. Modern machines use thick-film heaters. Funny how the internals get simpler, but the price tag of those 20 kg classics stays. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAnF...

If you are wondering why RAM prices are rising so much, NVIDIA's new Vera line supports up to 1.5 TB of RAM. Data center owners are willing to pay more, at least as long as the bubble holds. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

It seems that vLLM started supporting Strix Halo. This is good news, as Ollama is no longer state of the art. Good times for local inference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIz...

I made my very first YouTube video showcasing TreeOS setup on a VPS. It is an easy way to test-run the system, and making the video was more fun than expected. I went with German audio and English subtitles. What do you think? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWg...

I thought I couldn't be more motivated for agentic engineering and what's to come, Case Conf 26 elevated that to a whole other level! It was an awesome experience to speak in front of such an audience, it was great to learn from the other talks!

In December, I released the first beta version of my small operating system, TreeOS. It is freely available on GitHub and is accompanied by a B2B solution called OnTree.co that lets you run internal or private AI-powered apps and skills 100% locally. Read the full article here.

Super excited to speak at Case Conf today in Berlin!

This is a concept I'd like to see more, I'd love to build this for OnTree.co. An agent-friendly sandbox that can turn itself into anything the user whishes. Whoever gets this right first is going to have a killer product. blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev

be kikkoman start a soy sauce company in the year 1600 make soy sauce for 420 years keep making soy sauce for another 420 years in outer space people still want soy sauce

Something is shifting!

Wow, who would have thought that our little Agentic Coding Meetup grows into such a popular event series in only a few months! Our next event on January 20th is fully booked and we haven't even started announcing the speakers. Thanks to everrybody interested in the topic and joining our meetups!

Can somebody pause the world for two weeks, so that I can lock myself in and build my own operating system from scratch? POSIX compliant and in Rust? Please? www.learnix-os.com www.learnix-os.com

PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile. You never need to look at go.sum. go.mod has everything you need.

Listening to Yann LeCun is always a good idea, super curious what he's up to next. This is a good overview. saanyaojha.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...

I couldn't agree more to this article and have the same observation: AI is forcing us to maintain top-notch code bases. Companies that optimize this way, will get much more out of their agents in 2026!

In 2026, my newsletter will cover a wider range of topics beyond AI and 3D printing. To kick off the new year, I want to share two books that have reshaped my thinking over the past year. Unfortunately, one is only available in German. The other is available in both English and German.

Do you have an idle cluster? Can you spare a couple core-years? Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases! Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.

I can order a second Pebble Time 2 as part of my preordering. If you're interested in one, ping me, and I can order it for you, without any shipment costs. repebble.com

The world as 100 people over the last two centuries

Framework has the same point of view and warns in their latest newsletter: Hardware is going to become much more expensive next year. Their Framework Desktop with 128GB RAM is a bargain right now. If you're on the brink of buying one, better buy it soon! frame.work/desktop

We’re reaching a point in Germany where there’s so much solar power that large-scale battery projects kick off without needing direct subsidies (though there’s probably an indirect subsidy effect). www.energy-storage.news/germany-firm...

More layoffs at my former employer XING.com. Sad, but not surprising — the signs have been visible for a long time. Detailed report by a colleague affected in this round. www.stefanimhoff.de/15-years-xing/

I launched OnTree.co this week and recorded a quick walkthrough showing the easiest way to start playing with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWg...

Insightful deep dive into desktop UX by an industry veteran, full of anecdotes. He’s right: there’s no visible momentum for real evolution. I have high hopes for Google’s rumored Aluminium OS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

It's the week before Christmas. You're probably feeling the pressure to live up to all the expectations that Christmas brings each year. I hope you can let a few of them slide and choose to have a good time for a few hours in between. A personal note on my newsletter and my blog

Anthropic donated the MCP protocol into an independent foundation. Not sure if this is good or just means we want to end supporting it at some point. aaif.io

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Mistral is getting a lot of hate for releasing their newest models open source, but with usage limitations for companies bigger than $20 million revenue. I don't get it, to me this makes a lot of sense. x.com/maziyarpanah...

A new coding agent to check out: Mistral Vibe CLI. Just in time for the Christmas Holidays! mistral.ai/news/devstra...

The free version of CapCut is such a clever strategy from ByteDance (TikTok). As a new competitor in an established field, make a great tool to create and publish videos. Let people achieve their main goal, which is publishing to the dominant platform YouTube.

This weekend I downgraded my old MacBook to non-glass macOS. A lot of tedious work, which I try to memorize in a setup script. Let's how good this works on my main machine. Really happy with the result. next week.https://github.com/stefanmunz/setup-new-machine

It's almost impossible to not love Kagi. Now they're opening a new office which is bookable for free by all Kagi members in Belgrade! blog.kagi.com/kagi-hub

A ring that can capture your thoughts, keeping all your data locally. Plain awesome, godspeed to RePebble! repebble.com/index

Didn't know how well Playwright supports logged in web pages, will give it another try next week. debbie.codes/blog/testing...

Kind of funny that AI so far escapes every moat the VC-backed try to build. Skills are just a Markdown file and a script usually and very powerful. Nice summary of the state of the art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvI...

Sam Altman and Jony Ive with the same problem everybody has: It's quite hard to build valuable products with AI. I love the idea of a calmer experience, but I do not believe a VC-backed US company will build such a thing... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkCe...

I love htmx as a technology, this is a nice piece about implementing endless scroll with it. dri.es/infinite-scr...

Absolute banger piece from Paul Ford, also looking forward to that phase. www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...

I didn't know that Transformers v4 is five years old. Continues to amaze me how long people are already building infrastructure for all this stuff. Cool to see that they invest into optimizing for inference. huggingface.co/blog/transfo...

What Folding Laundry Taught Me About Working With AI: Yesterday evening I was folding laundry. It was one of those pesky loads, the basket was filled with socks. We're a four person household, ... Read the full article with links here: www.stefanmunz.com/posts/2025/w...

Welcome to Team Pixel, let's see how this goes! Honestly excited for this, after 17 years of iPhone.

Super interesting follow up on Bending Spoons. Interestingly, this article promising the downfall of the company is from 2022, and the company is still going strong. Still, I also believe this can't go on forever. impassionedmoderate.substack.com/p/ryan-reyno...

I switched from Super Whisper to MacWhisper this week. Seriously impressed, it works much better and faster here. But stability is still an issue for both tools. goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

SAM-3D looks awesome. Hope I find some time in the next weeks to play around with it creating 3D reconstructions of the world around me. Looks like it should run locally as well. ai.meta.com/blog/sam-3d/

Oh boy, do I regret updating my Macs to Sequoia. Seriously planning to downgrade, even though it means wiping the machines completely. While the update is bad, the other half of the truth is that I tried out so many tools in the last year, it's a mess. www.macworld.com/article/6713...

Here's an impression of our last meetup on Tuesday!

And another full house at our Agentic Coding Meetup #3! It was good to meet so many new and familiar faces at the Meetup, all coming from diverse backgrounds! We also have a new website for the meetup now! agentic.hamburg

Why you should buy an AMD machine for local LLM inference in 2025.This is the hardware I chose for my home LLM inference server. Here's why. www.stefanmunz.com/posts/2025/w...

One hour into testing Google Antigravity, I reached the quota limit. Interestingly no upsell option offered. Else it's a really good experience, I especially like the UX of the I like the hands-off Agent Manager. No opinion about the quality of the code yet.