I strongly recommend against Time Machine to NAS — just mentioned it in an article today as “works great, until it inevitably and catastrophically fails”.
Reliable for me is Kopia from Mac to S3 compatible volume (minio) on Synology.
im doing extremely detailed and extremely visual javascript uis with claude code with reactjs and tailwind. driven by lots of screenshots, which often one shot the solution
Am I the only one who thinks (mobile safari with an ad blocker) it’s a jackass move to show a fake popup that leads to “must be an adblocker” and prevents page viewing? Or maybe just bad JS junk causing it?
Update: OMG I turned ad blocker off and what a disaster of a site.
For anyone using Qwen3-VL: where are you running it? I had tons of reliability problems with Qwen3-VL inference providers on OpenRouter — based on uptime graphs I wasn’t alone. But when it worked, Qwen3-VL was pack-leading good at AI Vision stuff.
I run the larger version of it on a Threadripper with 512GB RAM and a 32GB GPU for the non-expert layers and context, using llama.cpp. Performs great, however god forbid you try to get that much memory these days.
I’ve noticed that the open weight models have a lot of issues on OpenRouter. You get a lot of inconsistency in quality due to varying quants at least. I’ve had some seriously nonsensical responses from models that I can’t replicate at all when I switch providers. Lots that just randomly fail to handle requests too. I would recommend finding a provider that works best for your needs and pinning it.
Ha, I have been steeling myself for a long chat with Claude about “how the F to get AI Studio up and working.” With paying being one of the hardest parts.
Without a doubt one essential ingredient will be, “you need a Google Project to do that.” Oh, and it will also definitely require me to Manage My Google Account.
For new users in AI Studio, we make a cloud project and key for you automatically. Hear you on the billing setup, we are working on it, landing in January!
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