Liana, a minimal git graph GUI
I have been coordinating the work of software teams for the last decades, and I’ve been using git graph tools on a daily basis. Reading those graphs is also how I understood git: the graph shows what a merge brought…
Category Computers
Running Qwen-Image 2.1 locally with stable-diffusion.cpp
Qwen released Qwen-Image 2.1 a few days ago, a 7B image generation and editing model in the Qwen family. It does text-to-image and image editing from up to ten reference images, renders native RGBA transparency, writes long text strings inside…
Running Qwen3.8-27B locally with llama.cpp
Qwen released Qwen3.8-27B on August 14. It is a dense 27B model, with no mixture-of-experts routing: every parameter works on every token. It has thinking mode on by default, a 262,144 token context window, and an Apache 2.0 license. Release-week…
A local Firecrawl for my Hermes agent
My Hermes Agent does a lot of web work: it extracts the content of pages as clean markdown, and it searches the web. Both go through Firecrawl, a scraping API that exists as a hosted cloud service and as an…
The Navier-Stokes controversy and why zero data retention matters
Tristan Buckmaster (NYU) and Levent Alpöge (a researcher at Anthropic) spent almost a year working in secret on the fluid equations related to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. They used AI models as research assistants and fed their unpublished drafts…
Hermes Agent
In the science fiction movies I watched as a kid, people talked to computers in natural language. Now it is real. Some months ago I wrote about Ollama. Since then, the way I use AI has changed completely: now almost…
Ollama: The easiest way to run local and cloud LLM models
I’ve tried many approaches to run local LLMs, and Ollama is hands-down the easiest way I’ve found to get started and actually use local models productively. Installing Ollama is a one-line command: Running a model is also a one liner: It…
Installing Thingino on a Vanhua FJZ camera
Two months ago my brother asked me: Which security IP camera should I buy? It seemed a simple question, but I needed some time to find a good solution. I used a Yi Camera for several years, but their mobile…
Abusing Apple’s Find My network
Some months ago Apple was running a commercial on Spanish TV about the iPhone’s privacy, mocking users with Android devices. Probably, iPhone users do not know that it is really easy to physically track them. Apple’s “Find My” network was…
Back to OpenWrt
Some years ago, my network provider (O2 – Spain) installed a router for me (Mitrastar HGU GPT-2541GNAC) with much better specs than my old OpenWrt router (TP-Link TL-WDR4300). So, I ditched OpenWrt and started using the company’s router. But the…