Arguably, AI is moving at breakneck speed and as a techie I needed a way to learn at pace. All that in parallel to a rather demanding (and not really 9-5) job, I had to find a way to build a lab where I could experiment on everything AI while also improving my overall tech setup and a way to access it remotely from my Macbook while travelling somewhere around the world. But in order.
Yours truly has been interviewed by the Swiss AI podcast. The podcast is in German, but for my German friends - at least not in Wallisertitsch. Should be easy to understand. Here is the spotify link:
I am intrigued by a technique I read about in Peter Steinberger’s blog. One of the challenges I had in the last couple of days is that the image size for my github - cloudflare setup for my blog is limited to 25 MB. Granted, this is not a particularly difficult problem, but I wanted to see if I can use genAI and build a Python tool that would solve this for me.
Google Reader, what’s that? It has been discontinued in 2013 - mainly because of the lack of mass appeal I guess. For me however it was an essential tool, as it kept me up to date on my blogroll via RSS feeds. So after the death of the reader, I moved all my feeds to feedly, where they have been ever since. But these days, as homelabs and self-hosted services are a feasible alternative to commercial services with all the benefits of keeping my own data at home, it has been time to rewire this essential part of my day.
Being the techie that I am, of course a 14 day cycling trip is going to require some serious tech. So here’s what my cycling carry looks like.
I used to use Garmin Edge devices on my various biking adventures, but they are tiny, routing info needs squinting and the smarts required to get back to the route after a detour, or starting somewhere else than what the route said have been seriously lacking. Combine that with severely limited storage and all that in expensive device… no thanks. I am carrying the perfect cycling computer with me all the time, my iPhone. So, on this trip, I am using my iPhone 15 Pro on a Quadlock Magsafe holder, connected to a massive battery, which rides in my top tube bag. That way, I am not going to be out of battery.
