Running Llama 3.2 on My Laptop (And Nearly Cooking It)
I got Meta's small Llama 3.2 model running locally with Ollama, roasted my fanless MacBook Air in the process, and thought about whether a cheap VPS would be a saner place to run it.
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A Weekend With OpenAI's Realtime API
I spent the weekend hooking my home voice assistant project into OpenAI's new Realtime API from DevDay, and it's fast, a little unsettling, and not cheap.
Slack Will Train on Your Data Unless You Email Them About It
Slack quietly opted every workspace into AI/ML data training by default this week, and the only way out right now is an email. Here's what I actually did about it.
Check Your Eclipse Glasses Before Monday
A lot of the eclipse glasses selling on Amazon right now aren't actually safe. Here's the quick ISO check to run before Monday.
I Built a Custom GPT This Week and Now I Cant Stop
A weekend spent building custom GPTs after OpenAI's DevDay update, plus notes on the new GPT-4 Turbo pricing and what actually works once you sit down and try it.
Twitter Broke My Old Posts, So I Finally Set Up RSS Again
Twitter's new rate limits broke every embedded tweet on this blog, so I finally set up a self-hosted FreshRSS instance. Here's the twenty-minute Docker setup.
Finally Killing My Google Analytics Habit
With Universal Analytics set to stop collecting data on July 1st, I finally ripped Google Analytics out of techpad's footer and moved to Fathom instead. Here's what that migration actually looked like.
Ditching Google Analytics Before It Ditches Me
Ditching the looming Universal Analytics sunset for a self-hosted Umami setup on a $6 droplet, plus a quick aside about that Twitter doge logo swap.
What ChatGPT Is Actually Good For, After Three Weeks
Three weeks of actually using ChatGPT for regex and scripting grunt work, plus the one time it confidently invented a find command flag that doesn't exist.
Picking a Mastodon Instance Is the Part Nobody Warns You About
I spent Black Friday weekend setting up Mastodon instead of shopping, and the hardest part wasn't the app, it was just picking a server.
Setting Up Mastodon: The Part Nobody Explains Well
A practical, no-hype walkthrough of setting up a Mastodon account this week, including the server-picking confusion nobody warns you about.
Fine, I'll Update Right Now
Apple's iOS 15.6.1 patched two zero-days already being exploited in the wild, no clicks required. Here's how I finally set every device I own to update itself without me having to remember.