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Notes on programming, system design, and whatever I've figured out along the way.

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What My Local LLM Setup Taught Me About Cloud Models (and Myself)

What My Local LLM Setup Taught Me About Cloud Models (and Myself)

Running Qwen3.5-9B on a dedicated Mac mini through a fork of Claude Code, and what switching between local and cloud models on purpose taught me about depth, quota, and privacy.

10 min read
How We Built OutfitMaxxing in a Week and Placed Runner-Up at Alibaba Cloud x AGICAFET Hackathon

How We Built OutfitMaxxing in a Week and Placed Runner-Up at Alibaba Cloud x AGICAFET Hackathon

How Our Team HotFix built OutfitMaxxing in a week, survived a last-minute failure, and finished as Runner-Up at the Bangkok Alibaba Cloud x AGICAFET Hackathon Grand Final.

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I Built a Personal Job Hunting Assistant That Runs on My Raspberry Pi

I Built a Personal Job Hunting Assistant That Runs on My Raspberry Pi

How I built a self-hosted assistant on a Raspberry Pi that scrapes LinkedIn and Indeed, scores listings with LLaMA, and sends me the best matches on Telegram every morning.

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