Today I Learned

Short snippets of knowledge that my future self will find useful. Borrowed from Simon Willison’s TIL concept. Check out the blog for longer form writing.

Moving Ollama Models to a Different Disk til — 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.

ollama llm

D2 Diagram Rendering in Hugo til — How I integrated D2 diagram rendering into my Hugo blog with a custom Go script

hugo diagrams d2 go

Tailscale Exit Node on Mac Mini til — 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.

tailscale networking mac

Interpret LLM Model Size til — How to interpret the numbers used to describe LLMs.

llm ai

Previewing Markdown Files with mdserve til — Dependency free markdown server

tools markdown

Whitelisting Pi-hole til — Working with Pi-hole and a bit of sed.

sed macos pihole networking

GitHub CLI til — Using the GitHub CLI to make authenticated and authorized download from a private repo.

authentication github api curl

OSS donations, fonts til — Starting some micro-donations to open source developers. And a font.

github sponsorship opensource font

SQLite schema til — Learning a few bits about SQLite that are worth noting.

sqlite sql

VSCode for Markdown til — Writing Markdown using VS Code

markdown