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Hands-on guides, protocol deep dives, and field notes on tunnels, SSH, reverse proxies, self-hosting, self-hosted LLMs, and AI - from the people building Pinggy.


Running a 0.5B LLM on Seven ESP32-S3 Boards

ESP32 BitNet Edge AI

How an open-source cluster of seven ESP32-S3 microcontrollers splits a Qwen2-0.5B model into 1.58-bit ternary layers, why it fits in 16 MB of flash per board, and why it is slow.

Best Computer Use MCP Servers in 2026: Let AI Agents Control Mac, Windows and Linux

MCP AI Agents Automation

The best computer use MCP servers in 2026, tested: Claude Code's built-in computer-use, Windows-MCP, Cua Driver, Peekaboo, Open Computer Use, macOS-MCP, computer-use-linux and computer-use-mcp, with install commands, tool counts, permissions, and how to reach a remote desktop over a Pinggy tunnel.

Best Open Source Jev Alternatives: 5 Self-Hosted Decision Models

AI Models Open Source Self-Hosted AI

TypeSafe's Jev is closed, hosted and waitlisted, so the open reimplementations started landing within a day. Laya, Kev, SemIf, NanoJev and jevlike, ranked by GitHub stars, with latency measured on an M3 Pro, the independent benchmark where Jev still wins on accuracy, and what each one actually needs to run.