In this blog, we’ll delve into the benefits of using AI in the open source coding-app Zed and explore how it can help to write better and faster code with the assistance of a Raspberry Pi.

For AI we don’t use ollama, but we run Llamafile on the Raspberry Pi.

Llamafile is created by, to make LLMs much more accessible to both developers and end users. Also it’s often faster than Ollama, and had a more performant server. That’s important running a LLM on a rather low-end Raspberry Pi 5.

So ssh into you’re Pi5 and startup Llamafile:

dev/llamafile/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.Q6_K.llamafile --server --v2 -l 0.0.0.0

To make ZED use your Pi, add this to your settings file CTRL+,:

The important thing is to set the name to openai, and add a api_url in which you set your local endpoint.That way it will use the openai API on a local endpoint instead of the cloud.

“language_models”: {
“openai”: {
“api_url”: “http://raspberrypi.local:8080/v1”
}
},
“assistant”: {
“version”: “2”,
“provider”: “openai”,
“type”: “openai”,
“default_model”: {
“provider”: “openai”,
“model”: “rpi”
}
}

For the rest just add a bogus key in the Assistant configuration for ZED openai, and you’re ready to go.

Llama-3.2 is running fine on a Raspberry Pi 5, it’s a good tradeoff between quality and speed for lower-end hardware. You could also try Qwencoder2.5, that is a bit slower though.

Just run another Llamafile on your Pi, there is no need to reconfigure the settings in ZED. That’s is the fun and easy of this solution.

About 10 years ago, we warned about the danger that the internet will become a privacy unfriendly place, due to bad behavior of Big Tech.

We more or less predicted that time, that Javascript would become required.

Breaking the bad, pushing a worse internet

Breaking the bad, pushing a worse internet (part II)

And now in 2025, 10 years later, Google just did that.

So when you visit an URL you get zilch info, a blank page, you need to give Google a permission to execute unknown code on your computer to see any content. That is of course breaking the internet. What is the use of an url when there is no content?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=why%20is%20Javascript%20required

<noscript><style>table,div,span,p{display:none}</style>
 <meta content="0;url=/httpservice/retry/enablejs?sei=xXXX_XXXxx" http-equiv="refresh">
 <div style="display:block">Please click <a href="/httpservice/retry/enablejs?sei=xXXX_XXXxx">here</a> if you are not redirected within a few seconds.</div>
</noscript>

Yes there is a collection of scripts, but that is no information.

Please read our older posts:

• https://dev.webonomic.nl/breaking-the-bad-internet
• https://dev.webonomic.nl/breaking-the-bad-pushing-a-worse-internet-part-ii
• https://dev.webonomic.nl/security-by-design-following-the-right-principle

Everybody that is surprised by the latest developments of Trump 2.0, Twitter/X and Facebook dropping any form of self-control/fact-checking on the news nonsense they publish or the lies they spread, it has never been the goal of Social Media firms to spread or publish info, the real goal is to collect (personal) data.

So lowering the amount of info is not what they want, the want to spread more info, because then they can sell more adds, and the more controversial the info is the more response you get etc. The more adds you can sell.

So why the big investment in AI?

Create more info ->  spread more info/nonsense -> sell more adds -> collect more data.

Remember what we wrote 10 years ago:

What social media buttons really mean, is: please share your social network, tell us the names of all your friends and please share your online presence with us.

A “JavaScript wall” is an extreme version of a “cookie wall.”

Scripting can form an integral part of an application. Web browsers that do not support scripting, or that have scripting disabled, might be unable to fully convey the author’s intent.

So when the Internet guidelines clearly state:

If it is not possible to make the page usable without scripts, provide a text equivalent with the NOSCRIPT element, or use a server-side script instead of a client-side script, or provide an alternative accessible page as per checkpoint 11.4.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#gl-new-technologies

https://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#tech-alt-pages

Google had a usable page without Javascript, they just killed it. All because gathering user info is more important then serving info. Think about that.

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer that enables the concurrent execution of multiple terminal programs within a single terminal session.

This feature significantly enhances productivity by allowing users to monitor various logs, debug programs, settings, and network traffic simultaneously.

For further information on Tmux’s capabilities and benefits, please refer to the documentation.

While Tmux offers a range of customizable settings, some default configurations may require adjustment.

Specifically, the default keyboard shortcut for the Command Prefix, CTRL+B, may be inconvenient for users who prefer to use one hand.

To address this, I recommend modifying the shortcut to CTRL+Q.

Additionally, Tmux’s scrolling functionality can be improved. I already mapped the CapsLk key to a CTRL key in Ubuntu/Gnome.

Scrolling is also not that trivial. So we gonna add mouse/trackpad scrolling. That’s a nice alternative to the keyboard way: Command Prefix + } followed by one of the cursor keys.

Edit .tmux.conf and put the following in:

unbind C-b
set-option -g prefix C-q
set-option -g mouse That's all for now.