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  • February 20, 2024

    Practical AI Application: Building a website in 30 minutes

    Creating a Functional Website in Just 30 Minutes with GoDaddy's AI-Powered Site Builder

  • February 15, 2024

    I jailbroke my mac

    Pinokio creates a self-contained virtual computer via an app that uses the cpu, ram, hard drive, etc of your real computer. Once installed, it provides a Discovery tab of available repos from github - in other words, an AI Browser.

  • February 12, 2024

    Navigating the World of AI Chatbots: A Comparative Overview of Chatbot UI and AnythingLLM

    Since mid-last year I've been testing out hosted web apps that allow users to chat with various LLMs. Today I'm giving a brief overview of the 2 that I have been using the most, and where you can even give these awhirl for yourself here on the site. Both of these projects deserve…

  • February 9, 2024

    Does  ❤️ OSS?

    Apple's Open Secret: Venturing Into Open-Source Software Here's something fun that I haven't seen reported elsewhere: In a move that should be raising eyebrows across the tech world, Apple, a titan of industry known for its closely guarded ecosystem, is venturing into, and even…

  • February 7, 2024

    Publishing the AgentSearch-V1 Torrent

    A while back I mentioned my interest in the status of the open web and specifically, marking the year 2023 as the last year of majority-human written data. With the launch of generative AI, the web is now increasingly being populated by machine-written content. A human curated…

  • January 26, 2024

    facebook and open-sourcing artificial intelligence

    A lot of folks are wondering why it is that Meta (formerly Facebook) is releasing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) for free. In reality, Meta's decision to release these LLMs aligns well with their history and business strategy. Here are three key reasons: History of Open…

  • January 24, 2024

    Step 2: dogfood everything

    Dogfooding something is a well-known concept in the software space. It's similar to "practice what you preach." I believe solidly in open-source, so finding a solution that matches was critical. This website is built using open-source software called Ghost. I recommend checking…

  • January 23, 2024

    getting started in open source (or anything else)

    Figuring out where to begin always feels like a daunting task. It takes extra energy to move an object at rest, after all, and it's insult to injury to make the effort and find out you've headed in exactly the wrong direction. One way to find and take that first step is to find…