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Asko Nõmm

A software engineer based in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Framework 16, one year later

A little over a year ago now I purchased the Framework 16 - a fully repairable and upgradeable laptop. I’ve since then used it as a main device running Linux, Windows, and as a secondary device when running as a home server. This here is my review of how that year has gone.

ÜberConf 2026

Yours truly is in Denver, USA this week, for the ÜberConf 2026. You can come say hi at the CodeScene booth as well as come see me give a workshop session on how to do AI without the slop this Thursday.

Do MCP’s use more tokens than CLI’s?

There’s a long-held belief out there that MCP’s are bad, and that you should actually use CLI’s instead, if you want to save on token spend when it comes to LLM tool use. To me that argument never really made any sense, because you still have to provide the LLM context so it knows what CLI to run, how to run it and how to interpret the result of it. Things that the MCP does for you. How come the…

The iPad 11” M5 Review

I have a trip coming up next month where I’ll be in an airplane for about 25 hours and in airports for about 3 whole days. Getting my MacBook in and out of my backpack gets tiresome very quickly like that, not to mention that I quite literally cannot use a 16-inch laptop in an airplane. It simply does not fit. So, I got an iPad.

Webinar: What Unhealthy Code Costs in the Agentic Era

Markus Borg, the principal researcher at CodeScene, and yours truly are doing a free webinar for NFJF on June 26th on the topic of code health in the agentic programming era. You should tune in, if you can.

CodeScene PR Refactoring Agent

CodeScene's PR Refactoring Agent autonomously analyzes code health in your pull requests and commits fixes — powered by OpenCode and the CodeScene CodeHealth MCP.

CodeScene CodeHealth MCP

How the CodeScene CodeHealth MCP creates a self-correcting loop for AI-driven development, ensuring high code quality in fully agentic programming workflows.

Framework 16 as a Server

Replacing three VPS instances with a Framework 16 laptop running as a home server for Forgejo, email, and more — saving from 70 EUR/month to 6 EUR/month.

The Product Engineer

Code is cheap now. The real job is solving business problems by creating digital products — making 'Product Engineer' a more fitting title than 'Software Engineer'.

Invobi 1.0

Announcing Invobi 1.0 — an invoicing service delivered as an MCP server binary. No web sign-ups, no database, just a one-time license key.