Archive: 2024
5 posts published in 2024
A personal media server
How to choose, set up and use a personal media server
In the last few weeks, I set up my own media server to replace a particular service I did not want to pay anymore. It felt like a huge chore with lots of options but it’s not so difficult once you get into it.
Here’s my journey and hopefully it’s useful to you too.
How NOT to publicize your AI practices
Based on a true story
I got so mad about this that I had to write a blog post. Consider this an edu-rant.
I wrote an automated blog post writer in Rust
Who needs to write anyway
I learned Rust and I decided to make something to automate blog post creation with GPT-4o. I’ll tell you a bit how that worked out.
Obsidian-iCloud sync
Keep your notes in sync
For a few years now I’ve been using Obsidian as my second brain. The magic of Obsidian is that it’s only a bunch of markdown files and a clever editor on top of it. This means that any file-syncing solution should be good enough. But the truth is a little bit more complicated than that.
AI Search has made me more human
Natural language is hard!
This whole shebang about AI and AI-enhanced products has led me to one of the products that have become part of my daily usage: Perplexity.AI. It’s a search engine where you ask questions and it gets your answers from the internet.
Let me take you back a couple of decades before we go back to it.