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GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 (Slate AX) GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 (Slate AX) The GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 (Slate AX) is the travel router I’m using as of Jan 2025. I’m finding it really useful for having all of my personal devices “just work” when I go to a cafe, or stay in a hotel. Or, while I’m writing this now somewhere over the north Atlantic Ocean, on paid-for airplane wifi. ...

Intro I went to Sweden for a week in January, 2025 for a visit. I was based out of Lund with occasional trips into Malmö. These are in the southern region known as Skåne. Getting There IcelandAir Two words: Necessary evil. Getting Around Buses & Trains The Experience Everything is safe and clean. Bus drivers can be a little aggressive, especially with pedestrians trying to cross. Trains were often late and switching tracks, so give yourself some buffer. ...

Introduction Since I’m using AI to help me more quickly brain dump my non-linear thoughts into a more readable format, I thought it would sometimes be handy to display Open WebUI chats in Hugo sites. This is where the renderchat shortcode comes in. Installation To use the renderchat shortcode, you can do this by creating a file in your site, layouts/shortcodes/renderchat.html, and adding the following code: {{/* renderchat.html */}} {{ $file := .Get "file" }} {{ if eq $file "" }} <p>No chat log file specified.</p> {{ return }} {{ end }} {{ $jsonResource := .Page.Resources.GetMatch $file }} {{ if not $jsonResource }} <p>Could not find the chat log file: {{ $file }}</p> {{ return }} {{ end }} {{ $json := $jsonResource | transform.Unmarshal }} {{ if not $json }} <p>Failed to parse the chat log JSON file.</p> {{ return }} {{ end }} {{ range $json }} <div class="chat-log"> <h2 class="chat-title">{{ .title }}</h2> <div class="chat-messages"> {{ $messages := slice }} {{ range .chat.history.messages }} {{ $messages = $messages | append . }} {{ end }} <!-- Create a map of messages by ID --> {{ $messageMap := dict }} {{ range $messages }} {{ $messageMap = merge $messageMap (dict (printf "%s" .id) .) }} {{ end }} <!-- Render root messages --> {{ range (where $messages "parentId" "==" nil) }} {{ template "renderMessageWithChildren" dict "message" . "map" $messageMap }} {{ end }} </div> </div> {{ end }} {{/* Recursive template to render messages */}} {{ define "renderMessageWithChildren" }} {{ $message := .message }} {{ $map := .map }} <!-- Render current message --> <div class="chat-message {{ $message.role }}"> <strong>{{ if eq $message.role "user" }}User{{ else }}{{ $message.model }}{{ end }}:</strong> <div style="white-space: pre-wrap;">{{ $message.content }}</div> </div> <!-- Render children recursively --> {{ range $message.childrenIds }} {{ $child := index $map . }} {{ template "renderMessageWithChildren" dict "message" $child "map" $map }} {{ end }} {{ end }} Now we’ll need CSS code. My theme will load any CSS that I put in assets/css/extended/ so I added a file in there called renderchat.css. Here’s the CSS code for the chat log: ...

2020 MacBook Air M1 I’ve got this old MacBook Air M1 that’s getting on in years, but I’m not quite yet feeling the need to upgrade it. Partly because I’ve got so many other Apple products to stay on top of, I really like to space my Mac purchases apart more. But the M1 was such a huge leap in performance. I was coming from a MacBook Pro 16" Core i7 and I’m not kidding when I say this lowly Air that came out not much later is a better computer, and certainly more convenient to travel with. In fact, I’m literally writing this now from inside of Terminal 2 at RDU airport, and I’m looking forward to getting some writing done during my long flight. ...

Introduction I’m writing this just before hopping on a long trans-atlantic flight. I’m not betting on the in-flight WiFi being very good, so I’m taking the time to get a local AI assistant running on my laptop. I think many travelers will be interested in setting something like this up, so I’d like to take the time to document a lot of how I’m doing this… and hopefully make it easier for others to get it going. ...

Why Run Containers Locally? Running containers on your development machine has become an essential practice for modern software development. Local containers provide: Consistent development environments across team members Quick testing of containerized applications without remote dependencies Easy experimentation with different software stacks Simplified microservices development and testing Efficient resource usage compared to traditional virtual machines Why Podman Instead of Docker Desktop? While Docker Desktop has been the de facto standard for local container development, Podman offers several compelling advantages: ...