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Local Development

Local-first workflows, developer tooling, and services running on your own machine for fast iteration and reliable debugging.

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Series: Local AI Lab For Developers (Part 3)

Context Is a Budget: Truncation, Chunking, and Staying Under the Limit

July 13, 2026·byJoshua Morris

Context limits aren’t vibes—they’re math. Learn truncation behavior, token budgets, and RAG chunking so your model stops forgetting the important part.

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A developer laptop showing token boundaries highlighted across text, with token counts and latency estimates in the margin.
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Series: Local AI Lab For Developers (Part 2)

Tokens Are the Unit of Pain: Tokenization You Can See

January 27, 2026·byJoshua Morris

Tokens are the meter your model charges in: context, latency, and cost. We'll make tokenization visible using your existing local Ollama service—first via a CLI token inspector + heatmap, then with a live-updating browser playground.

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A developer laptop terminal streaming local model output with latency metrics overlayed.
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Series: Local AI Lab For Developers (Part 1)

AI on Your Computer: Run a Local LLM Like a Service

January 20, 2026·byJoshua Morris

Run a local LLM on macOS, Linux, or Windows, call it over HTTP like a real service, stream output in Node/Python/Go/C++, and measure TTFT + throughput to understand what's actually happening.

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