Thoughts of a developer, geek, father.
NOTE: It s been hectic time the last couple of weeks, so I m not able to keep up with too much of the news at the moment. Today will be another light week. Introducing Perplexity Deep Research I know this was available with ChatGPT Pro and with Gemini, but I ve been using Perplexity for quite a [ ]
NOTE: This was another light week where I didn t get to read up on as many posts as I wanted so not too many links today. Qwen 2.5 VL!By Simon Willison I haven t played with this model yet, but looking forward to another multimodal model I can run locally on my home server. Aider This [ ]
Deekseek R1 on Ollama This isn t what I d normally link to, but the new Deepseek R1 model is available on Ollama. This is such an interesting model because you can see how it reasoned through your prompt to derive its final answer. I haven t played with it enough to see how useful the small models [ ]
Quick Note I didn t read through as many items this week, so this is an extra short list. I ll get back to my regular reading schedule in a week or two. o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)By Ben Hylak I thought this was an interesting observation about how to get the [ ]
NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips I don t know if I ll personally try to buy one of these or not, but I did sign up for the email list to see when it s available. This sounds like a great idea for anyone wanting to do experiments locally with [ ]
Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher By Zohaib Rauf I ve had a similar experience. I m not an engineering manager, but I don t get to write as much code as I d like at home or at work. I ve had several side projects (or even just ideas to explore) that I ve put off forever because [ ]
Should You Buy One? I know that s the main question everyone is asking themselves, so before I get to any of my specific thoughts about the device, here s my answer to that question: Background I m an early adopter, so I m generally trying things that could be more polished and more proven, with the understanding that [ ]
One thing I wanted to try on my Sovol SV06 that my previous printers couldn t do is TPU. I finally had a project where I needed to print a little TPU sock to go around a printed part to give it a little flexibility and grip. After about 10 failures in a row, I finally [ ]
If you re like me and end up using PrusaSlicer on different computers with non-Prusa machines (I m using mine primarily with a Sovol SV06), you ve probably been frustrated that your machine/print/filament settings from one computer aren t available on your other computers. I hope Prusa adds an official way to opt-in to sync this data in the [ ]
Well, I expected I was going to end up with a series of blog posts on Budget Notify when I originally wrote the Part 1 post. I planning on building out a whole frontend and backend system. At the end of the day though, I found an even better solution to my specific problem, so [ ]