ContractorKeith 
construction veteran. agentic engineer. building in public.
RSS Feedi'm keith. i spent 37 years in the trades — electrician, plumber, GC, home builder, estimator, and everything in between. now i'm working full time in agentic engineering. i build Ködade for running agents, local business tools through OpenContractorOS, and games like Pioneer Trail. i also maintain the Mac release of SlowBooks Pro. the code, releases, and lessons live here.
selected stories
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call local models with MLX using Tailscale
Updated:my laptop codes, my mac studio thinks: running a 27B model with MLX on one mac, reaching it privately over Tailscale, and handing it coding tasks from Claude Code through a small MCP worker.
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ködade cli gives terminal agents a home
workspaces, persistent panes, and agent attention in a terminal, with a released macos and linux build you can install.
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opencontractoros puts the office on your machine
crm is released, job scheduling and bookkeeping are being built, and estimating is planned: where the local contractor suite stands.
latest articles
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call local models with MLX using Tailscale
Updated:my laptop codes, my mac studio thinks: running a 27B model with MLX on one mac, reaching it privately over Tailscale, and handing it coding tasks from Claude Code through a small MCP worker.
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ködade cli gives terminal agents a home
workspaces, persistent panes, and agent attention in a terminal, with a released macos and linux build you can install.
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opencontractoros puts the office on your machine
crm is released, job scheduling and bookkeeping are being built, and estimating is planned: where the local contractor suite stands.
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ködade two gives the work some room
the released desktop workspace now has tabs and reusable agent personas, while the newer task surface is still ahead of the installer.