To improve my own practices and have more time to spend on my extensive studies, considering my preference of local first whenever possible, I obviously started by making my own coding VS2026 extension. Bare bones, raw, usable already. So, I decided to make an extra…

As an experiment, to harness the power of Claude Opus 4.6 (fast mode) preview to the max, I felt I should prototype a project I felt like making, over and over. Introducing Local AI Prompt, my first Visual Studio extension in years. The goal was…

While the idea behind naming it all vibe coding has made me consider it should only be used in roles similar to a Full-Stack Mood Developer, I’ve enjoyed the strong capabilities of Copilot Pro access I received at the GitHub Constellation Johannesburg from November 14,…

I’ve been struggling to write the 50k novel this month, unfortunately. I love using NaNoE Refresh already and have made a decent start for my unplanned novel. It’s just safe to share I’m struggling to get my mind back on straight with challenge of cutting…

As part of my lunch time research for the day, on LLMs, I actually saw a Reddit comment mention a small size LLM that does OCR in a speedy manner, for me to try out: AIDC-AI/Ovis2-1B. I only had a single small delay today. I…

As an experiment for this week, this morning I decided I should get a model of Deepseek R1 running on my local dev machine. I went on a whim, went slow step-by-step through what I felt like implementing, only around 7 hours in speedy research…

Recently I’ve pressed the ‘reset button‘ in my plans for my future. I’ve seen, and heard, a ton of interesting things which has led to me needing this recent break. Without dwelling on how I’ve started to defend myself, finally, I’d rather focus on the…

As my next idea for LLMs use, I decided to dabble with some OCR. Converting images to text in a speedy manner. Over the weekend I spent a little time experimenting with MiniCPM-Llama3-V-2_5-int4. The idea I have is to get details from my purchase slips,…