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Taming octocatalog-diff in CI: Exit Codes and Noise-Free Error Output

octocatalog-diff is a great tool for surfacing Puppet catalog changes in pull requests, but its default CI behaviour has two sharp edges: it exits with code 2 when diffs are found (which most CI systems treat as failure), and its stderr is full of Ruby thread noise and stack traces that obscure the actual compilation errors you care about. Here is how we fixed both. The Exit Code Problem octocatalog-diff uses three exit codes: ...

DeepCoder-14B vs Qwen3-Coder: Which Coding Model Should You Run Locally?

Since we committed to Qwen2.5-Coder-14B on our Hetzner GEX44, two serious challengers appeared: DeepCoder-14B from Agentica/Together AI, and Qwen3-Coder from Alibaba. Here’s an honest comparison for teams running local LLMs on real, budget hardware.

Setting Up a Local LLM at Obmondo: From Zero to Qwen2.5-Coder

How we decided to run a local LLM at Obmondo — hardware selection on a budget, understanding quantization and model parameters, comparing Ollama vs vLLM, and landing on Qwen2.5-Coder for coding assistance.