Writing

Notes on what I'm building, mostly Rails and AI.

• Oct 2026 How I Use Claude Code What my setup actually looks like after a year and a half: hooks, a status line, parallel sessions, and a pipeline with a person at the gates.
• Oct 2026 Running AI Tools on One GPU in My Apartment, and What Broke How austn.net ran its AI tools off one home GPU for six months, the bugs a code review found afterward, and what I changed.
• Mar 2026 I Wrote This Blog Post From Discord So I just set up Hermes Agent. It's an open-source AI agent that sits in my Discord server and has access to my dev machine. I'm writing...
• Sep 2025 Why Rebuild Rails? In memory of Noah Gibbs, whose "Rebuilding Rails" book continues to inspire developers to dig deeper. The Problem with Being a "Rails...
• Aug 2025 LM Studio I've started getting into Local LLMs. I have a feeling I'm going down a rabbit hole I won't recover from. For now, I want to turn a spare...
• Aug 2025 ML Image Classification, Miniproject 1 I followed along with fast.ai's "Is it a bird?" lesson, then added a random sampler to check the classifier on images it hadn't seen....
• Aug 2025 Getting Started with ML I've found a few different resources and have decided to spend the next few months diving deep into ML while I look for a job....
• Mar 2025 Hello World Hello! This is my first blog post on austn.net. I'm Austin French, a backend developer from California. Lately I've been trying to use AI...