Drove up to Lawrenceburg, KY for a Birthday party at a gymnastics facility. The kids loved it.
Took the day off from work to spend the day with the kids while Meg worked.
We lost power around 4a this morning, came back around 5p. I expect we'll lose power again overnight
How I keep my weekends family focused with an "unplugged" phone
I've tried or owned just about every minimal unplugged phone out there, from Punkt to lightphone and everything between.
Why I use this opensource tool for my analytics
I've dabbled in self hosting my blog on and off for years.
Something that i never really felt was where I wanted it was light site stats. I had no interest in paying for this functionality, or giving big brother Google any of my data.
When I landed on Ghost, they did not have the partnership with Tinybird yet, so I started to dig.
I finally found Umami
Out the gate i was really impressed on how easy it is to get going.
Once I set up my site, it gave me a simple script to add to the site. Once done, I could see all the goodies I was after.
A quick post on how and why i use self hosted LLMs
While I have strong feelings about the overarching "AI" umbrella, open-source models and tools are neat.
Powered my home lab, with unraid, the ollama docker, and the open-webui docker.
Right now, these are my favorite opensource models:
- Llama 3.1 - Fast, solid all-rounder; tool-calling support
- Qwen 2.5 - Stronger multilingual, math, code
- OLMo 2 7 B - 100 % open training pipeline
- Mistral 7 B Instruct v0.3 - Fast, creative writing
- StarCoder2 7 B - Code-generation specialist, 600+ langs.
I have a few more at the ready when needed
