Amir Bohlooli-Senior Editor

Amir Bohlooli

Senior Editor

February, 2021
Productivity, Creative, Windows
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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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A set of colorful AA batteries next to each other
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.

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Laptop screen showing Qwen 3.8 running inside Qwen Code in a terminal
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.

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Messy network setup with routers modems and a switch
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.

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Reddit mascot inspecting a deleted post with a magnifying glass.
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.

Close up of the ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3090 graphics card backplate in the case
[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

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A Kindle Paperwhite 12th Gen on a desk
The last time Jeff Bezos apologized in public, it was for deleting 1984

The most infamous Kindle deletion solved the wrong digital ownership problem

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Microsoft Excel showing the date February 29th 1900
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.

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A laptop on a desk showing a local LLM running the pelican test
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.

Inside the HP Z6 G4 case with an ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3090 graphics card installed
[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.

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A laptop showing Claude and Obsidian the note-taking app
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.

NVIDIA's PersonaPlex speech AI model on a laptop screen with a terminal in the background showing the hardware usage
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.

Integral NVMe 2230 SSD being held in front of a keyboard
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.

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Excel logo with elements of the Excel AGGREGATE function
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.

A laptop screen showing a physics simulator built with GPT 5.6 and Fable 5
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.

LineageOS updater shows June 17 2026 build card
Goodbye LineageOS — I tried to love you

I used a custom Android ROM and fell for it — until I tried to live with it.

ESP32 dashboard with OLED screen and Claude Code mascot.
Claude Fable 5 is back — but don’t get too attached

Anthropic brings back the frontier Fable 5 model after US export limits lift.

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Laptop showing Claude draw a molecule and render it in 3D
These three words changed how I use Claude forever

Ask Claude to "learn how to" do anything and build a skill to use forever.

ExpressVPN running on an Android phone
I don’t use VPN apps on my devices anymore, except for one
VPN

I made a second Wi-Fi network for my VPN, and it fixed everything

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A sound card mounted on a motherboard next to a Radeon graphics card
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

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Jellyfin on Android TV on a Samsung Smart TV
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.

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