Musings on Software and Other Curiousities

Today I’d like to show you how to set up text-output language learning models (LLMs, or “AIs”) to run locally, on your own hardware, without any subscriptions or accounts required. If you’re worried about costs or privacy, running open-source models locally is a great way to learn LLM usage, or even to use these tools professionally if you don’t require cutting edge or massive models.

Part 1 in this series, factory-built fixtures, can be found here.

I’ve begun wanting to reduce my usage of smartphones and tablets.

Over the past few months, I’ve been working part-time on an overhaul of the RSpec test suites belonging to two mid-sized Ruby on Rails applications. Both possess a few hundred system tests, with nearly no existing unit tests. The system tests are great for regression testing and getting to understand how these applications are supposed to work.