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  • Mar 24 2026

    Testing Qwen3-Coder-Next

    Are local models useful for coding on a normal PC? Let’s find out.

  • Mar 22 2026

    Using Telegram to control Claude

    Anthropic has just released a feature called Channels, which allows a Claude ...

  • Mar 15 2026

    Old man tries things, Nano Banana edition

    This entry was written when the blog looked like this:

  • Mar 14 2026

    Writing an agentic conversational game - II

    Once the plan is defined, it’s time to start coding. I just fed OpenAI Codex ...

  • Mar 12 2026

    Writing an agentic conversational game - I

    My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, but after only a few months, my father...

  • Feb 17 2026

    Reinforcement Learning II - Basic algorithms

    With the basic engine created, the next step is adding a couple of basic non-...

  • Feb 7 2026

    Running a multimodal embedding model for image classification

    I had the idea of creating an application to classify a big set of images at ...

  • Jan 25 2026

    Reinforcement Learning I - Connect 4

    I’m going to vibe code a Connect 4 game. Not because I specially like Connect...

  • Jan 23 2026

    Local LLMs V - Installing and running vLLM

    Now it is the turn of vLLM, the other clear contender for a simple library to...

  • Jan 13 2026

    Adding Codex and Claude Code notifications to Alacritty

    I mentioned before that getting notifications wasn’t that easy, at least in m...

  • Jan 10 2026

    Vibe coding for senior software engineers

    All of a sudden, everybody is talking about how great vibe coding is. Well, w...

  • Dec 5 2025

    Clair Obscure: Expedition 33

    I was really planning on dedicating more time to local models, but I just dec...

  • Nov 24 2025

    Local LLMs IV - Installing and running TensorRT-LLM

    As mentioned in the previous post, I tried TensorRT-LLM to do the same as wit...

  • Oct 22 2025

    Reinstalling Ubuntu

    To be honest, I knew I was taking a risk going with Ubuntu 25.04. For example...

  • Oct 17 2025

    Local LLMs III - Installing and running llama.cpp

    We can get llama.cpp with a package manager, downloading a Docker image, or e...

  • Oct 12 2025

    Redesigning the blog

    I like that it was simple, but it feels too.. big? Rough? The content is roug...

  • Oct 3 2025

    Local LLMs II - Requirements to run a local LLM

    The first post is here.

  • Sep 19 2025

    Local LLMs I - Setting up a home computer

    So I bought a new computer (in PcComponentes, as usual) to play games code LL...

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