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Field notes from whatever I'm building: bringing old Macs back to life on Linux, wiring up AI agents, and working out where things actually get installed. Mostly written so the next person doesn't have to dig as hard.
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Whisper precision: a comprehensive guide to fine-tuning and hyperparameter tuning
How to fine-tune OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model on your own data, then search for the best hyperparameters with Optuna and watch the trials run on Ray. Code included, from training to saving the model.
Read the guide →Series · Omarchy Linux on an old Mac3 parts
The fix for your Wi-Fi
A decade-old Broadcom chip, a lot of wrong turns, and the firmware file nobody shipped.
The fix for your Touch Bar
Bringing a dead strip of glass back without breaking the keyboard driver, or the kernel.
The fix for your sound
The internal speakers were silent for a very specific, very fixable reason.
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Installing Omarchy Linux on your old Mac? Here's the fix for your Touch Bar
The only driver looked old, poorly documented and risky. Here's how it went anyway.
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5 min
Installing Omarchy Linux on your old Mac? Here's the fix for your sound
Same laptop, new symptom: silent speakers, and the CS8409 codec behind them.
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9 min
Installing Omarchy Linux on your old Mac? Here's the fix for your Wi-Fi
A dual-boot install, a Broadcom chip and the firmware file nobody shipped.
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2 min
So… where are Claude plugins actually installed?
You installed a skill from a marketplace. Where did it go? A short map of the options.
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6 min
Mega prompts, prompt pipeline, agentic team
My journey of agentic design on a real-world project.
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3 min
Docling, MarkItDown, Unstructured, Unstract… you know what I mean
Document parsing is the first step to understanding your documents. Which library should you pick?
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6 min
The ultimate guide to MCP
Why MCP is a breakthrough, who supports it, and how it compares with function calling.
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3 min
AI trend: MCP (Model Context Protocol)
MCP is like the USB-C of AI applications. What it is, and why it matters.
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5 min
DeepSeek Janus Pro 7B on-prem, on OpenShift
Step by step: deploying DeepSeek's new multimodal model with validated patterns.
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2 min
OpenShift digital certificate
Generating a CSR and key, and getting the certificate onto your cluster.
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Whisper precision: a comprehensive guide to fine-tuning and hyperparameter tuning
Fine-tune Whisper on your own data, then tune it with Optuna and Ray.