Senior software engineer going hard on local AI. Local LLMs, AI agents, and the rigs to run them.https://mikekey.com/https://mikekey.com/blog/scaffoldbench-local-llm-benchmark/https://mikekey.com/blog/scaffoldbench-local-llm-benchmark/I got tired of hot takes about local models from people who don't run them. So I built a benchmark that tests what I actually do - surgical edits in real codebases, on my own hardware, graded deterministically.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikekey.com/blog/can-you-build-a-faster-chatgpt-in-nextjs/https://mikekey.com/blog/can-you-build-a-faster-chatgpt-in-nextjs/How frustration with Open WebUI and a T3 Chat speed challenge turned into FasterChat, a self-hostable AI chat app with 150+ stars on GitHub.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikekey.com/blog/another-cms-rovo-cms/https://mikekey.com/blog/another-cms-rovo-cms/RovoCMS is a lightweight, open-source CMS built with vanilla JavaScript. Simple, fast, unbreakable—an alpha proof of concept for 2025Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikekey.com/blog/#note-2025-08-30-quick-note/https://mikekey.com/blog/#note-2025-08-30-quick-note/updatesSat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikekey.com/blog/trials-and-failures/https://mikekey.com/blog/trials-and-failures/From 9th grade dropout to freelancer to a ten-year salary job I was too scared to leave, to real estate, and back. The story of how fear cost me a decade - and what finally broke the pattern.Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikekey.com/blog/on-turning-35/https://mikekey.com/blog/on-turning-35/Lately, as the years stack up, I've been diving deeper into self-reflection. 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