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Trillium Updates: Choosing to self-host
Following up from my previous post about the lessons I learned steering Claude and building on its API, this one is on what I learned in choosing to run Trillium entirely on my laptop, rather than deploy it to the cloud. How this started To start with - I didn'
Trillium Update: Lessons from Steering Claude and Building on Its API
Since sharing what I've learned in my initial post about Trillium a few months back, I've gotten much further with it. There was about a month of legislative activity (~February/March) that gave me a lot of opportunities to test the progression of bills and see
Give Your AI Coding Assistant Something to Work With: A Case Study
Over my winter break, I'd been noodling over a new side project idea related to Ontario politics. I used to enjoy following what goes on, but these days looking at news articles and reading the email campaigns from my local politicians feels a bit click-bait-y and
Building "My Local Grocer"
This is a side project that I've been picking away at on-and-off for the past few years, and I'm finally at a place where I can say I'm "done". My Local Grocer was my attempt to make small mom-and-
Privacy-preserving payment systems, goals for 2025, and a new side project
Happy New Year all! I hope you had a great holiday break and a wonderful start to the year. I enjoyed some much needed rest and got a chance to read a lot of books I've been meaning to get to. One of them was a novella called
Pride, ethical debt, and an e-card side project
It seems like I blinked and June has flown by! I'm now back home in Toronto and trying not to melt in the heat waves that seem to be happening more frequently in Ontario. One of the highlights of the past month for me was getting the opportunity
