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.

31 Jan 2025

Advanced Logseq queries can be useful

Logseq has a nifty feature where if you use their time tracking primitives it’ll automatically use a query under the hoo...
26 Jan 2025

How to use Deepseek R1 and o1 in VS Code

This is definitely in the “experimental” phase and I’m not using it regularly yet, but if you want a Windsurf and/or Cur...
25 Jan 2025

How to watch Deepseek R1 think

tl;dr: use together.ai with Open Web UI (formerly known as the Ollama Web UI) Deepseek R1 came out recently, and it’s th...
25 Jan 2025

Make any webpage a standalone app (even if it’s not a PWA)

Sometimes it’s nice to be able to use webapps as first-class desktop apps rather than inside a browser tab. This is easy...
24 Jan 2025

You can just pull GGUFs from ollama

So if there’s a new LLM available that’s not yet been published to the main ollama hub (https://ollama.com/library) but ...