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Hi 👋 I'm Dylan. Most content is in blog posts or little notes to my future self called Today I Learned… Follow the links up top☝️to explore. Social links are in the footer👇
Audaciously deciding to write a new language til
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— I really wanted a tiny little version of Jupyter notebooks but for personal calculations that can also
have Markdown in them. So I started chatting with my buddy, Claude, who gave me an inflated sense …
In which Claude Makes a Map til
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— I decided to vibe code, truly putting Anthropic’s Claude CLI in the driver’s seat. It was instructive!
Week 5: Image and Video Generation blog
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— Overview of generative approaches to image and video generation. Includes text-to-image and text-to-video tasks.
JS Modules and Refactoring Hugo Shortcodes til
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— In which I finally read some docs on what a JavaScript module is and how it made my Hugo shortcodes self contained.
Week 4: Thinking and Reasoning Models blog
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— Complex prompts are better handled with multi-step logical answers. Reasoning models are still an LLM, but we add reasoning before the response is provided.
Moving Ollama Models to a Different Disk til
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— I’m running Ollama on a Macbook so shifting the default location that Ollama downloads massive models to is a necessity. It’s just one environment setting away.
Week 3: Agents blog
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— Week 3 is all about agents. Workflows, tools, multi-step agents, and the protcols and frameworks involved.
D2 Diagram Rendering in Hugo til
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— How I integrated D2 diagram rendering into my Hugo blog with a custom Go script
Tailscale Exit Node on Mac Mini til
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— I want to set up an exit node on my Mac Mini using Tailscale. That way I can watch movies from anywhere and print stuff without being at home.
RAFT for RAG blog
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— RAFT (Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning) confused me when I first heard about it in a training class. It’s a technique that combines both offline fine-tuning and runtime retrieval to improve the …