AI-Assisted Programming One Year Later: What's Left of the Promises
19 percent slower instead of faster, declining trust, more duplicated code: the AI coding balance sheet per METR, Stack Overflow and GitClear.
Thoughts & Notes - Tobias Reithmeier
Blog by Tobias Reithmeier - posts on iOS development, 3D printing and photography.
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Smart Home Without the Cloud: Why My Home Runs Locally
1,744 entities, one server in the house, hardly any vendor clouds: a field report on why my smart home runs locally - and where compromises remain.
The agent won't object: cleaning up instructions in grown projects
Coding agents resolve contradictory rules silently, without warning you. A tutorial on cleaning up the instruction files of grown projects.
Local LLMs on the Mac: What Apple Silicon Realistically Delivers
Language models without the cloud: why Apple Silicon is suited for it, which model sizes run on 16, 32 and 64 GB of RAM, and where the limits are.
Redispatch and Negative Electricity Prices: Why Wind Turbines Stand Still
573 hours of negative electricity prices, billions for grid congestion: why wind turbines get curtailed although power is needed - and what is changing now.
Dynamic Electricity Tariffs: Who Actually Benefits From Tibber & Co.
Since 2025 every German utility must offer dynamic tariffs. What studies say about the savings potential, the risks of price spikes, and who should switch.
Listening Offline: Music for Your Flight Without a Streaming Subscription
Streaming downloads expire if you stay offline too long. How to buy music instead of renting it and get it onto your iPhone for good.
CarPlay and Music From Your Own Server: What Works, What Doesn't
Your own music on the car display: which apps bring Navidrome, Jellyfin or NAS to CarPlay, where Finamp stands, and why the offline cache decides.
Finamp and CarPlay: Jellyfin Music in the Car
Does Finamp support CarPlay? Not in the App Store build yet - the TestFlight beta has it since June 2026. What works in the car, and the alternatives.
M4B Audiobooks on iPhone: Chapters, Resume, Players (2026)
M4B instead of 30 MP3 files: what the format does, how it gets onto your iPhone and which player features a 20-hour audiobook actually needs.
ShelfPlayer, Plappa, or Finamp?
ShelfPlayer, Plappa, Finamp, Fintunes and more: which iOS client fits Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin or Navidrome - with CarPlay and offline checked.
The Subsonic API: Navidrome, Gonic and Ampache Compared
Navidrome, Gonic and Ampache all speak the Subsonic API. What the API guarantees, what it does not - and why server and app are independent choices.
CLAUDIO vs Plexamp vs VLC: Which Player for Your Own Music?
Three philosophies for playing your own music on iPhone: Plexamp for the Plex ecosystem, VLC the all-rounder, CLAUDIO for every source - compared honestly.
How CLAUDIO works: the architecture behind the privacy
A look under CLAUDIO's hood: sources as plug-ins, privacy as architecture and on-device computing - from a solo developer who uses the app himself.
Listening to audiobooks on iPhone: what makes a good player
Chapters, resume to the second, speed and silence skipping: what actually makes a good audiobook player - and why privacy is part of it.
The best podcast apps for iPhone: Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro & CLAUDIO
Overcast, Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Castro and CLAUDIO compared - which podcast app fits you, and which one works without an account or tracking.
The Cheetos Secret: Why You Can't Stop Eating Chips
Why we can't stop eating chips or popcorn even when we should already feel full - and what vanishing caloric density has to do with it.
Tagging Your Music Library: Metadata, Covers, Structure
Why albums fall apart in Navidrome and Jellyfin and how to prevent it: album artist, compilation flag, cover art and folder structure done right.
Trained Under Censorship: The Quiet Danger of AI Models from China
Tested with 5,760 questions: Kimi answered in censorship mode in one of three cases, DeepSeek in one of four. What that means for anyone using these models.
Kimi K3: The Frontier Just Went Open
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-weight model ever. What it means for OpenAI and Anthropic and what model weights actually are.