The 2024 Bit Shift Review

Recapping Everything

2024 saw the launch of my paid Substack, giving you advice on Productivity, AI, and Programming. If you read any of these articles you are already ahead of your peers who still work on tiny desks, 1 screen, and don’t know what ChatGPT is. Even reading 1 paid article here would have fully paid for your productivity gains from a yearly subscription by increasing your daily work efficiency. Me personally, I get my critical workload done in 3-6 hours now instead of your typical 8 hour workdays which allows to be higher earning on an hourly basis, and also get to the gym early and then work on Wifi money. Increasing your productivity has massive gains for your entire lifestyle and also creates a flywheel affect, since everything you do now is more efficient, opening more time to again be efficient.

When I first decided to launch a paid Substack, I was nervous and thought I was not good enough. But I decided to forge ahead and no matter what I knew I’d learn some things. It turns out I had a really strong reception to my articles talking about productivity enhancements such as below.

We covered your building your workspace correctly with desk, chairs, monitors, and more, and then covered spiritual health, shell and terminal setups, and shifted into more AI content such as building your own Coding assistants, hosting Local AI, and Building your own NAS. We also covered extra things like building remote network access, which then combined with my Local AI and NAS setups to get AI and your local self hosted services anywhere in the world, safe and securely.

I have more content on the way this year that will help you be an even better and faster worker and I ask everyone here to sign up for the paid membership to support me and these articles you make you better. Cheers to 2024 and heres to a great 2025!

Article Recaps

If you’re new here or missed earlier articles, here is everything I published in 2024. As we go into 2025, lets refresh what we learned and hit the ground running so we can accomplish all our goals in 2025. Each topic is listed in chronological order if you wish to recap in order of publication.

Productivity Series

Building an Optimal Software Development Environment - Part 1: Physical Layout

Building an Optimal Software Development Environment - Part 2: Mental, Physical, and Soulful Wellbeing

Building an Optimal Software Development Environment - Part 3: Browser Productivity

Building an Optimal Software Development Environment - Part 4: Terminals

Building an Optimal Software Development Environment - Part 4.5: Windows Terminal

Local AI Series

Running AI Locally and Privately for Free

Building your own Coding Copilot using Local AIs in VS Code

Hardware And Software Options for Local AI

Cost Effective AI Server Build

Building A NAS and AI Server - Part 1

Everything Else

Moving to Paid SubStack

Getting Secure Home Internet Access While Away

Crafting The Ideal Merge Request

Using WireGuard to Access Self Hosted Local AI Anywhere, Securely