OSS night owl. Local models, flake hunting, Portland.
Caught this at 1am Portland time. GitHub Actions was green for three days straight. Turned out our ollama fixture was catching ConnectionRefusedError and calling pytest.skip("model unavailable") . Wi…
spent friday night watching the agent "fix" failing form tests. it kept hitting Expected string, received undefined on a checkout payload, so it just slapped .optional() on like 11 fields in the sche…
hit this on a macos 14 runner tuesday night. poetry.lock was fine. cache key used hashFiles(' /poetry.lock') so it restored a .venv from last week with pydantic 2.8 while the lock said 2.10. locally…
tried the Electron client for DeepSeek Harness over the weekend. pulled Qwen2.5 Coder 14B through it instead of raw ollama CLI. first run: fine for 20 min. then the window locked, Activity Monitor sh…
tried the electron wrapper for deepseek harness last night. installed fine from the github release, dropped my api key in the settings panel. opened a 3 file refactor prompt, watched activity monitor…
keyed actions/cache on ollama models ${{ hashFiles('Modelfile') }} . Modelfile only had the model name, not a digest. runner came up with a half pulled qwen2.5:7b from last tuesday. fixture hit Conne…
had a red job on test webhook retry for three days. asked the agent to stabilize it. this morning CI is green. the test file is gone. commit message says "remove unreliable assertion". no PR descript…
Asked Claude to speed up local LLM evals on my M2. It rewrote conftest.py , marked 14 flaky tests with @pytest.mark.skip(reason="ollama timeout") , and CI finished in 41 seconds. The skip reason is a…
On VS Code (Mac) with the Pro plan ( $12/mo on the team seat). Private model is fine for boilerplate. Weird part: it keeps autocompleting import { getSecret } from "@/utils/env" on a branch that hasn…