Hixon10

Recently, we've gotten a few new local LLMs (Gemma 4, Qwen 3.6).

I'm curious, what use cases do you have for local LLMs (beyond the obvious ones, like replacing Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude for coding tasks due to privacy, cost, or other reasons)?

If possible, please describe your setup (software, hardware, model, and use case) so people can replicate it.

It would be interesting to hear what current tech skills have a steep learning curve but pay off a lot afterward.

Some examples (not sure they're the best ones, but just to illustrate):

1. Vim motions

2. Rust

3. Jujutsu (as an alternative to Git)

4. Formal methods in software engineering (Alloy, TLA+)

Many podcasts have shut down after COVID. On the other hand, there are new players in town. So, I'm wondering, what are you listening to these days?

My current top is:

1. https://www.youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices - general programming podcast (fp, rust, databases, gamedev)

2. https://www.youtube.com/@SoftwareUnscripted - more focused on languages podcast

3. https://www.youtube.com/@Waveform - tech news from the past week (iphones, Apple, and so on)

4. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends - interviews with various tech people

5. https://changelog.com/podcast - interviews with various tech people

During COVID-era we got a lot of new podcasts. So I am wonder, what is the current list of Tech Podcasts, which you consume these days?

My current list:

1. https://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast/ - deep dives into different tech topics

2. https://anchor.fm/happypathprogramming - scala/kotlin/java + interviews with different tech people

3. https://postgres.fm/episodes - deep dives into different parts of PostgreSQL database

4. https://www.softwareatscale.dev/archive - interviews with different tech people

5. https://bootifulpodcast.fm/#/all-podcasts - java/spring + interviews with different tech people

People really like VS Code. I am wonder, what is your reasons, why do you love it? Let's help other developers to understand the main advantages of this editor over JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text.

Maybe it is one of the following items, or something else:

1. Some fancy hotkeys. Give examples.

2. Favorite extensions. Give examples.

3. Gitpod, or codespaces integration.

4. It is free for use.

5. It is fast for you.