I write about practical technology: AI systems, local LLMs, hardware, software engineering, and the projects I build while learning in public.
Recent blog posts
Building a GPT-1-Style Decoder-Only Transformer From Scratch on an AMD RX 6900 XT A lot of people talk about GPT models as if they are magic. I wanted to understand one properly, not just use one through an API. So I built a small, from-scratch GPT lab in...
Yesterday, significant parts of the internet ground to a halt, again, as Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. From care home door locks that wouldn’t open to cat flaps refusing to budge, the ripple effects of one company’s technical failure...
As part of my journey to gain more hands on experience building Retrieval Augmented Generation systems, I built a small self hosted RAG experiment designed to run on low powered hardware. The goal was simple: see how far I could push a compact RAG stack...
I've had the pleasure of using the Raspberry Pi 4 for various projects, and my experience with that board laid the groundwork for my expectations for the Raspberry Pi 5. In my previous review of the Pi 4 , I highlighted its impressive performance, robust...
Introduction The internet is full of data, from product prices to research papers, sports statistics to stock market trends. But how do we actually collect this data in a structured way? That’s where web scraping comes in. This is a subject I’ve recently...
As a tech enthusiast, I've been eager to get my hands on the latest Raspberry Pi 4 and I'm excited to share my thoughts on this impressive device. The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4GB of RAM is the latest iteration of the popular single-board computer, and...
Loading the Data I began by importing the foundational libraries: NumPy and pandas for numerical and data manipulation tasks. Next, I loaded the training and test datasets provided by Kaggle. To get a feel for the data, I viewed the first few rows using...
My Thoughts and Experience As I've been diving into the world of front-end development, as a front end web developer, I've found myself drawn to ReactJS. It's one of the most popular JavaScript libraries out there, and for good reason with competitors like...