Amir Bohlooli
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About Amir Bohlooli
Amir is the Segment Lead for Software at MUO. He's a PharmD student who loves looking at numbers and spreadsheets.
Inspired by his father's hobbies, Amir developed a knack for DIY projects and built his first quadcopter in high school. At 18, he began writing about 3D printing, and now contributes to MUO where he writes and edits productivity tools, AI and LLMs, spreadsheets, self-hosting, DIY projects, and a lot more.
Amir also enjoys creating music, although its categorization as such remains open to interpretation. In addition to his academic pursuits, Amir is an avid gamer, car enthusiast, and proud owner of a 1993 Mitsubishi Galant.
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I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail
The clue was printed right there… and I still burned through stacks of AAs.
Qwen 3.8 is ridiculous, and the reason I’m getting Claude Opus tier results from a gaming GPU
I can’t believe Qwen 3.8 is this good on an RTX 3090.
I replaced my router with a VM and my home network got a ridiculous upgrade [HomeLab #3]
My home router now has 4GB of RAM and unlimited upgrades.
4 different ways to see deleted Reddit posts
Although Reddit won't show deleted threads to its users, it's rather easy to view deleted Reddit posts and comments when you want to.
[HomeLab #2] Everything I've self-hosted on my homelab, ranked by how much I adore them
I self-hosted dozens of apps on my homelab — these are the ones that stayed
The last time Jeff Bezos apologized in public, it was for deleting 1984
The most infamous Kindle deletion solved the wrong digital ownership problem
There's a 40-year-old bug in every copy of Excel and Microsoft says it will never fix it
Microsoft Excel has been wrong about the same date for 40 years, and that's by design.
I tested the top local LLMs against ChatGPT and Claude, and one absurd prompt revealed the gap
The local models weren't that far behind the frontier expensive cloud models.
[HomeLab #1] I finally built the home server I’d been avoiding, and it changed everything
I finally understood the homelab obsession after building one myself.
Obsidian still has no AI features — and that makes it the best AI notes app
Every note-taking app is adding AI, but the best one doesn’t need it.
I ran NVIDIA’s experimental speech model locally, and I was just not ready for how good it was
NVIDIA's PersonaPlex is fast, local, deeply impressive, and you can run it on just 8GB of VRAM.
The handheld gaming boom accidentally created the cheapest SSDs on Earth (for now)
Handheld upgrades left behind a strange surplus of barely used, dirt-cheap SSDs.
SUM is good, SUBTOTAL is great, but this Excel function beats them both
Your reports should remain stable even when your data gets messy. AGGREGATE is the only function that survives both filtered rows and errors.
I ran the same one-shot simulator prompt through Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and the wrong model impressed me
I gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 the same physics problem — the wrong model impressed me.
Goodbye LineageOS — I tried to love you
I used a custom Android ROM and fell for it — until I tried to live with it.
Claude Fable 5 is back — but don’t get too attached
Anthropic brings back the frontier Fable 5 model after US export limits lift.
These three words changed how I use Claude forever
Ask Claude to "learn how to" do anything and build a skill to use forever.
I don’t use VPN apps on my devices anymore, except for one
I made a second Wi-Fi network for my VPN, and it fixed everything
This is what I've hooked up to my spare PCIe slot, and it brings me more joy than my graphics card
A dedicated sound card in 2026 'sounds' ridiculous until you actually use one
I made my media server work like Netflix with one free Cloudflare feature
My Jellyfin server was stuck at home, so Cloudflare set it free.