# raphael (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover raphael. Page: Feed: --- ## [My new availability page using the status tool](https://galdin.dev/posts/the-status-tool/) _2026-05-22 · Galdin Raphael_ TL;DR: I wrote a simple tool to publish my availability status on my website. You can find it here , or check the source code here . I built a self-hosted backend service to automatically sync my GitHub profile status with a calendar. As I was working on it, I decided to also use it to publish my availability on this site based on my personal calendar. I wanted to use this as an opportunity to… ## [Availability](https://galdin.dev/availability/) _2026-05-09 · Galdin Raphael_ This page is an experiment. The information on this page is automatically updated every hour using my status tool . If you’re looking to chat or meet in London, my current availability is as follows: Monday, Aug 17 - Evening Tuesday, Aug 18 - Evening Thursday, Aug 20 - Evening Saturday, Aug 22 - All day Sunday, Aug 23 - Second half Monday, Aug 24 - Evening Tuesday, Aug 25 - Evening ## [Get in touch](https://galdin.dev/contact/) _2026-05-09 · Galdin Raphael_ The best way to get in touch is to email galdin.raphael@gmail.com . If you’re in the London area, you can find my availability here . ## [Experimenting with local GGUF LLMs & llama.cpp server](https://galdin.dev/posts/local-llms-with-llamacpp-gguf/) _2026-03-15 · Galdin Raphael_ I spent some time this weekend experimenting with smaller LLMs locally to get a sense of how they compare to the models I use at work (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) and how they perform on a GPU-only machine. I started with Qwen3-4B . Turns out, running a model locally with llama.cpp server is actually very simple with the GGML project. 1 Here’s my compose.yml file: 1 version : '3.9' 2 3… ## [Setting up a non-root user with SSH access](https://galdin.dev/posts/setting-up-a-non-root-user-with-ssh-access/) _2025-11-25 · Galdin Raphael_ I keep having to look this up every time I set up a new machine. So here are the steps for future me: 1 # Create a user and add to the sudo group 2 adduser galdin 3 usermod -aG sudo galdin 4 5 # Setup SSH 6 su - galdin 7 mkdir -p ~/.ssh 8 chmod 700 ~/.ssh 9 10 # Exit the ssh session 11 # and copy the local SSH key over 12 exit 13 exit 14 ssh-copy-id galdin@ 15 16 # Log in again! 17 ssh galdin@ ## [Using a dev container to configure GitHub language stats](https://galdin.dev/posts/using-a-dev-container-to-configure-github-language-stats/) _2025-03-13 · Galdin Raphael_ Development Containers are awesome because they allow you develop in a sandboxed environment without having to install tools you wouldn’t otherwise use outside a given context. I’m currently working on a repo with a few jupyter notebooks, but also with code in python and rust. Unfortunately, jupyter notebooks contain a lot of generated code (in addition to actual code), and that skews… ## [2025 job search: my career goal](https://galdin.dev/2025-job-search-my-career-goal/) _2025-02-24 · Galdin Raphael_ 💼 Click here for my CV My job search journey DatesMilestones / EventsAug 2024I spoke to the CTO about my decision to move on from the company.Nov 2024My last day as VP of Engineering at Parmonic.Nov - Dec 2024Break. I traveled a bunch with my choir. I also became an uncle to my brother’s newborn.Jan 2025My last day as part-time Technical Advisor at Parmonic.Feb - Mar 2025I focused my search… ## [How I setup up Windows machines for development](https://galdin.dev/posts/how-i-setup-up-windows-machines-for-development/) _2025-02-14 · Galdin Raphael_ I just got a new Windows laptop to write some code and figured I might as well document the setup process so that I have something to refer to in the future. I have setup my machines this way since switching back to Windows in 2019 and it has served me well. The crux of my setup is to use two Windows users: a local admin user for UAC approvals and a standard non-admin user for actual use. ## [Projects](https://galdin.dev/projects/) _2024-10-17 · Galdin Raphael_ status 🗓️ A service to publish my status & availability to GitHub & this site respectively. GitHub | Post scale 🎚️ An experimental classifier designed to predict obesity levels using a range of metrics beyond just height and weight. 🔗 scale.galdin.dev | GitHub domaineer 🌐 Privacy-focused domain availability checker 🔗 domaineer.xyz | GitHub typist ⌨️ A quote typing app, written in Blazor…