I work in a high security environment (space). We cannot leak any of our code to external APIs, even with Zero Data Retention, so cloud coding assistants are out of the question, and that includes the ones that review code.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 They used AI models as research assistants and fed their unpublished drafts…
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…
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…
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…
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…
