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Kana Chat v2 Architecture Changes

Changes from v1 to v2 of Kana Chat, an AI agent built around official CLI wrappers. Covers dual-model router, Heartbeat memory, planner mode, image input, speech transcription, PWA push notifications, and the lessons learned from a month of daily use.

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Running the NSFW Version of Qwen-Image-Edit on RunPod

Tried running the NSFW variant of Qwen-Image-Edit (Phr00t AIO) on RunPod to generate 3-view reference sheets for a 3D model base mesh. A log of failures on RTX 4090 and eventual success on RTX 5090.

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Tech Apr 17, 2026 8 min

Astro 6 on Vercel failed with Expected ':' but found ')'

An Astro 6 build on Vercel started failing because a generated `_astro/*astro_type_script*` chunk hit an esbuild parse error. Stripping TypeScript syntax was not enough. The stable workaround was to bypass Astro's script transformation path with page-local imports from `public/vendor`.

Astro Vercel Build Tools Frontend

Tech Apr 17, 2026 10 min

Testing Z-Image i2i for Pixel Art Conversion

Z-Image has its own pixel art LoRAs, but can they actually convert photos to pixel art via i2i? Tested Z-Image Turbo, base model, and compared with Illustrious on M1 Max 64GB.

Z-Image Image Generation Apple Silicon Experiment

Tech Apr 17, 2026 9 min

Running WAI-Anima v1 on an RTX 4060 Laptop via ComfyUI API

Testing WAI-Anima v1 on an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8GB VRAM). Ran into a tqdm OSError nightmare trying headless execution via ComfyUI API, but once launched normally it generates in 55 seconds.

AI image generation ComfyUI Windows NVIDIA Stable Diffusion LoRA Experiment

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Tech Apr 16, 2026 12 min

Was Looking for a New WAI-Illustrious Version and Found WAI-Anima Instead

WAI0731 (creator of WAI-Illustrious) released WAI-Anima v1, a derivative model based on Anima. In the two months since the February Anima article, derivative models have surged along with a LoRA toolkit and text encoder upgrades. Hands-on comparison of preview3-base and WAI-Anima v1.

AI image generation ComfyUI Qwen Apple Silicon Stable Diffusion LoRA Experiment

Tech Apr 14, 2026 9 min

Can Qwen Image Edit Convert Photos to Pixel Art?

Tested 5 approaches including Qwen Image Edit, JS color reduction, and Illustrious i2i + LoRA. Illustrious i2i alone turned out to be the fastest and lightest solution for pixel art conversion.

Qwen Image Generation Apple Silicon Experiment

Tech Apr 14, 2026 15 min

LLMs Can't Be Lazy

Bryan Cantrill's 'The Peril of Laziness Lost' argues that LLMs have zero cost to write code and no motivation to abstract. Humans must serve as the 'deletion engine' or systems will bloat endlessly.

AI LLM AI Coding Design Experiment