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  • Dev Week 18

    Another backdated blog post.I've found some nirvana: AI + BookStack for a self-writing Knowledge Base.I have tried Wiki softwares for developing knowledge bases, including MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia family of websites) and Trac (Python-based), but they always fail my…Read more Dev Week 18 ›

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  • Dev Week 17

    This post is actually being written 2025-01-01, but I'm backdating some posts to make up for the weeks I missed. This post is about OpenAI's recent announcements of its o1 models, which makes it all the more puzzling that I'm…Read more Dev Week 17 ›

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  • Dev Week 16

    I'm backfilling weeks I missed. December was rough.I'm currently running Vikunja for my todos. I only started using it recently. It's pretty neat, but it's lacking on some of the basics. The UI feels tacky. Specifically, when switching between projects,…Read more Dev Week 16 ›

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  • Dev Week 15

    This week I worked on the podcast player's autoplay!Previously, when you'd be listening to an episode, you'd get near the end and hit the next key to listen to the next episode.. and the next episode would start loading, but…Read more Dev Week 15 ›

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  • Dev Week 14

    Oh no, I missed another blog post this week! (This is being written after the fact.) Fear not, though, for I have not stopped work on my podcast-/playlist-listening app!This week I implemented a dramatically improved instant-listening feature. Previously, when switching…Read more Dev Week 14 ›

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  • Dev Week 13

    This week was all about refactoring, and fixing that pesky problem where playback position wouldn't work on iOS/Safari!As a side note, I've tried my hand at some pixel art (see featured image above).I wanted to give iOS users a way…Read more Dev Week 13 ›

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  • Dev Week 12

    The past two weeks, my main focus has been on my podcast/playlist app! It's received some serious improvements. The most important new functionality is that the audio plays directly in the webapp instead of on the server, so you can…Read more Dev Week 12 ›

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  • Dev Week 11

    Unfortunately I missed a post this week 🙁 please check for next week's post!

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  • Dev Week 10

    This week I got a bit sidetracked making a new podcast/playlist player! We’ll take a pause on the machine learning / LLM / AI stuff since this has taken up most of my week and given me a source of…Read more Dev Week 10 ›

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  • Dev Week 9

    This week we'll talk a little bit about NLP, or Natural Language Processing.ChatGPT took the world by storm, and now we have Llama, Claude, Gemini, whatever. What are they and where did they come from? I was obsessed with watching…Read more Dev Week 9 ›

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