Linux

Self-hosting Perplexica - with Ollama

Self-hosting Perplexica - with Ollama

Running copilot-style service locally? Easy!

That’s very exciting! Instead of calling copilot or perplexity.ai and telling all the world what you are after, you can now host similar service on your own PC or laptop!

LLM Frontends

LLM Frontends

Not so many to choose from but still....

When I started experimenting with LLMs the UIs for them were in active development and now some of them are really good.

Installing Pi-Hole - free Adblocker

Installing Pi-Hole - free Adblocker

It's so annoying to watch all those ads

You can install a browser adblock plugin or addon for google chrome, firefox or safari, but but you will have to do this on each device. The network-wide ad-blocker is my favorite solution.

Deploy Hugo site to AWS S3

Deploy Hugo site to AWS S3

Hugo is a static site generator

When the site is generated with hugo it’s time to deploy it to some hosting platform. Here is a howto push it to AWS S3 and serve with AWS CloudFront CDN.

Linux Mint Cinnamon Context Menu

Linux Mint Cinnamon Context Menu

Sometimes you just need to add your item there ...

Cropping, resizing and making borders to the images for this blog pushed me to add this frequently used feature to Linux Mint Cinnamon’s context menu.