Liana, a minimal git graph GUI
I have been coordinating the work of software teams for the last decades, and I’ve been using git graph tools on a daily basis. Reading those graphs is also how I understood git: the graph shows what a merge brought…
Running Qwen-Image 2.1 locally with stable-diffusion.cpp
Qwen released Qwen-Image 2.1 a few days ago, a 7B image generation and editing model in the Qwen family. It does text-to-image and image editing from up to ten reference images, renders native RGBA transparency, writes long text strings inside…
Running Qwen3.8-27B locally with llama.cpp
Qwen released Qwen3.8-27B on August 14. It is a dense 27B model, with no mixture-of-experts routing: every parameter works on every token. It has thinking mode on by default, a 262,144 token context window, and an Apache 2.0 license. Release-week…
A local Firecrawl for my Hermes agent
My Hermes Agent does a lot of web work: it extracts the content of pages as clean markdown, and it searches the web. Both go through Firecrawl, a scraping API that exists as a hosted cloud service and as an…
The Navier-Stokes controversy and why zero data retention matters
Tristan Buckmaster (NYU) and Levent Alpöge (a researcher at Anthropic) spent almost a year working in secret on the fluid equations related to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. They used AI models as research assistants and fed their unpublished drafts…
Redmi Headphones Neo
I can’t use in-ear earphones anymore: all of them hurt my ears, so the over-ear format is a must for me. I have just bought the Redmi Headphones Neo, Xiaomi’s budget over-ear Bluetooth headphones, for 40€ in Amazon. They usually…
Hermes Agent
In the science fiction movies I watched as a kid, people talked to computers in natural language. Now it is real. Some months ago I wrote about Ollama. Since then, the way I use AI has changed completely: now almost…
Ollama: The easiest way to run local and cloud LLM models
I’ve tried many approaches to run local LLMs, and Ollama is hands-down the easiest way I’ve found to get started and actually use local models productively. Installing Ollama is a one-line command: Running a model is also a one liner: It…
Installing Thingino on a Vanhua FJZ camera
Two months ago my brother asked me: Which security IP camera should I buy? It seemed a simple question, but I needed some time to find a good solution. I used a Yi Camera for several years, but their mobile…
2024
It has been a year full of decisions—some very difficult, others quite simple. I continue to learn what it means to be a father, and it’s proving to be as complicated as I had imagined. I’m not active on social…