My Home Assistant voice assistant answers real-time questions in Galician now: a small integration contributes a web_search tool to the Assist LLM API, backed by my self-hosted Firecrawl. How it works, the loading gate that silently swallowed the first version, and what voice search changes.
Asistente de voz local en galego con Home Assistant: satélite wyoming nunha Orange Pi, palabra de espertar, Whisper na iGPU dun miniPC e voces galegas do Proxecto Nós (phoonnx/celtia) vía Wyoming. Todo en contedores de docker, sen nube.
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 They used AI models as research assistants and fed their unpublished drafts…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…
