DHH is into Home Servers, too The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 49 Home servers are back and many cloud computing offerings are a complete rip-off: DHH discovered the same seismic changes this year, and he's a genius marketer. David Heinemeier Hansson, or DHH in short, must live in the same social media bubble as I do, our most important topics overlap this year: home servers are on the cusp of becoming a serious alternative to cloud offerings and the cloud is turning into an expensive joke....

Open Models And Local Inference Are Back In The Game! The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 44 Open Models and Local Inference are back in the game! For a few months, it seemed closed models would outpace open models. Thanks to Chinese labs, the race is open again! And with the Framework Desktop, the right hardware is near! The last months were hard for open model enthusiasts like me. There was a clear and distinguishable gap between the big closed models and the open models. Google’s Gemini 2.5 is...

The Lethal Trifecta For AI Agents The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 43 Simon Willison published a post a month ago, which is already one of the most important blog posts of the year. With the rise of AI agents, the problem described will not change. But we’ll see more practical demonstrations of it, leading to massive problems. The gist is this: There’s a lethal trifecta of risk for AI agents: untrusted content, access to private data, and external exposure. Here’s what each part means and why...