Whisper + Obsidian: Fully Automatic Voice-to-Text Notes
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Wiring up Obsidian’s Whisper plugin to the free Cloudflare-backed OpenAI API from the previous post.
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Notes on what I’ve been building — mostly self-hosting, AI tooling, and the occasional deep dive into a bug I couldn’t leave alone.
Building a Free, OpenAI-Compatible API on Top of Cloudflare Workers AI
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Wrapping Cloudflare’s free Workers AI models (including Qwen) behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so existing front-ends don’t need to change a line of code.
Patching the Jasmine Theme to Show a Post's First Image as Its Thumbnail
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Obsidian’s sync to Typecho doesn’t support custom fields over XML-RPC, so I patched the theme instead.
Two Quick Wins for This Blog: Caching and Visitor Analytics
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Adding a caching plugin for faster page loads, plus wiring up Google Analytics.
International and Chinese Cloud Providers' LLM Landscape
A quick note on a comparison table of large-model offerings across major cloud providers.
Trying Out Local LLM Deployment: GPT-3.5 vs. Qwen-7B
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Some hands-on experiments with un-tuned open models, and a few thoughts on where the real value in LLM products actually sits.
This AI Browser Extension Blew Me Away
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Elmo can summarize any page on the fly — and it turns out that’s genuinely useful for reading in a second language.
Self-Hosting Immich on My Synology NAS: Batch-Importing My Photo Library
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Getting Immich running on a home NAS and bulk-uploading years of photos with the CLI.
Google One Is Shutting Down Its VPN Service
Google says usage was too low to justify keeping the feature around.