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.
OpenAI Dots, Meta Muse, Grok Bot and Instinct compared with open source Hermes Agent and OpenClaw: what makes each one act without being asked, where it runs, who holds your logins, and what it costs in October 2026.
Mistral Large 4 ships open weights: 1T parameters, 49B active, 1M context. Here is what it takes to serve it with vLLM on one 8-GPU node and expose the API safely with a Pinggy tunnel.
Set up an OpenAI dot as a proactive chief of staff: connect Gmail, Calendar and Codex, hand it a whole to-do list on one call, write custom rules, and cut the noise. Plans, limits and regions as of October 2026.
My pick for best overall AI image-to-video generator is FLUX 3 Max on fal: #1-tier 1,139 Elo, ~22x faster than Seedance 2.5. Plus picks for speed and budget.
SocketXP's $20 and $99 plans only allow SSH from its browser terminal. Five SocketXP alternatives for SSH into Raspberry Pis and IoT devices behind NAT: Pinggy, Tailscale, RemoteIoT, qbee.io and Cloudflare Tunnel, with October 2026 pricing.
Run Claude Code or Codex on a cloud VM or a home devbox and drive it from your phone or laptop: Claude Code Remote Control, Codex remote control and SSH hosts, SSH with tmux, and a Pinggy TCP tunnel for machines behind NAT.
Compare 10 AI documentation tools for READMEs, API docs and tutorials, with pricing, limitations and a workflow that keeps developer docs accurate.
Jev, Liquid d1-ultra, pplx-decider, Microsoft-Decision-1, OpenAI Decisions, Cloudflare Clef and Strands Decider 2B compared on price, inputs and three independent leaderboards, with one run locally on an M3 Pro.
Profound dropped its $99 and $399 plans in September 2026. Lumirank, Promptwatch, Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Scrunch compared on price, engines, how they collect AI answers, and crawler logs.
Design characters from musical instruments: read personality from shape and sound, choose how far to anthropomorphize, map tone to visual style, then generate and refine the character in Dreamina with Seedream 5.0 Pro.
