Public tidbits and discoveries that aren’t worth a full blog post but that I still wanted to write about. For a more fleshed out (and far less frequently updated) blog check out nikvdp.com.

No guarantees of accuracy, utility, sanity, or anything else provided.

28 Apr 2025

All your AIs in one place with OpenWebUI and LiteLLM

If you’ve been exploring different AI models, you might have noticed that each major provider (like OpenAI, Google...
25 Apr 2025

How to use OpenAI’s o3 for free (for now)

OpenAI has been somewhat quietly running a promotion where you can get a very generous daily allotment of free tokens (l...
20 Apr 2025

SQL IDEs that support DuckDB

I’ve been hacking on a project with DuckDB, and was shocked to discover that DBGate (my usual goto app for working with ...
07 Apr 2025

How to setup MacWhisper so you can talk to your computer for free

MacOS has had dictation features for a long time now, but the built-in dictation functionality is absolutely terrible. L...
29 Mar 2025

Get the latest Cursor right now (even if the update is still rolling)

tl;dr brew install --cask cursor Slightly longer version Cursor does rolling software updates, which means that it can t...
27 Mar 2025

Getting Audiobookshelf on Your iPhone (Even When TestFlight is Full)

Audiobookshelf is an open-source audiobook server that’s a pretty great alternative to apps like Audible. Unfortun...
18 Mar 2025

Editing images with Google Flash 2.0

Google’s Gemini Flash 2.0 made some waves when it came out with it’s ability to edit images, and it’s pretty cool. As of...
02 Mar 2025

Fancy screen recording on the cheap

I wanted an easy way to record screencasts and optionally have my webcam showing over the recording in a bubble and be a...
27 Feb 2025

Running QwenVL (qwen vision) locally with docker

TLDR Qwen’s vision models are the best open source vision models available, but are tricky to run locally because they’r...
12 Feb 2025

Experimenting with VS Code’s new Agent mode

In a refreshing change of pace the twitter and youtube crowd has been ooh-ing and ahh-ing over Github Copilot’s new agen...