Practical walkthroughs of my technical experiments. From airgapping your LAN to deploying local AI agents, these guides document my process, my mistakes, and the solutions I found along the way. Built for those who prefer learning by doing.
I was getting constant popup errors in Continue (VS Code extension) when using my Qwen3.6:27b model: “Error parsing Ollama response: expected element type <function> but have <parameter>”. Turns out it was…
I remember the first time my Python script suddenly broke because another project of mine installed a conflicting, outdated version of a library. It was a frustrating headache where my…
For a long time, the gap between having a great idea and actually seeing it live on my website was a significant friction point. It wasn’t the writing that was…
For the last few years, we’ve been “chatting” with AI (often using local intelligence via Ollama). We’ve treated LLMs as fancy encyclopedias or coding assistants that give us snippets we…
As a creator, my backup drives are essentially my external brain. They hold project archives, sensitive configurations, and private data that should not be left unprotected. For those of us…
If you’ve been away from the world of software for a while, or if you only know the modern “App Store” era, you might be surprised by how much the…
Yes, you read that right. In five years, we’ll look back at this moment and realize that “Vibe Coding” wasn’t just a trend—it was the tipping point. For decades, we…
In this guide, I’ll break down the three main parts of the free Dashboard app. Think of this as a map of the software. For many of you, the code…
For the last few years, the AI world has been obsessed with “Benchmarks.” We see endless tables, percentages, and MMLU scores. But for those of us actually building things, those…