Things I built
Small tools made for my own use, and what building them taught me.
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Tri Clipper: a Safari web clipper for Trilium
Trilium has an official web clipper for Chrome and Firefox. I use Safari, so I wrote one. It keeps the HTML instead of converting to Markdown, fills the note in from templates, and hands its network requests to a native app because WebKit will not let an extension talk to a server on your own…
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Presort: a Mac app that reads my mail with a model I run myself
Everything lands in iCloud Mail and nothing happens to it. A local model reads the inbox and files appointments and deadlines into iCloud Calendar and Reminders, without a copy of my mailbox going anywhere.
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A 35B mixture-of-experts on the same Arc Pro B70
The rule I ended the first article with turned out to be about vLLM, not about the card. Swapping the runtime made a much larger model run faster.
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Setting up Hermes on your own hardware
From GPU to working agent: three services, a proxy, and a handful of integrations.
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Why an agent needs a working method
How 900 words of system prompt did more than a model twice the size.
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An Intel Arc Pro B70 as a local LLM server
Why I chose Intel over NVIDIA, what it cost me in evenings, and why I would do it again.