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Open WebUI made me build my own LLM harness
Aug 15, 2026 · original
Open WebUI is a web app for chatting with LLMs, like chatgpt.com or claude.ai. I’ve run it for the last 6 months, and I’m done with it. I’m building my own replacement. Why I chose it I wanted an open-source and self-hostable UI, so I don’t support the big AI companies. I chose Open WebUI because it seemed like the most feature-rich and least resource-hungry web UI for LLMs. The alternatives didn’t fit. LibreChat requires a stack of 6 containers. I wanted a single container. Most other alternatives are native desktop apps. I wanted something that syncs between my phone and my laptop. It’s a resource hog Open WebUI takes nearly 1GB of RAM on my 2GB VPS. Its backend is Python, and its frontend is a single-page app, and both are heavy. It also bundles Whisper (speech-to-text) and embedding models by default, which makes even the slim container image nearly 1.5GB . The bugs are awful Over th
Effective use-cases for LLMs
Jun 21, 2026 · original
There’s a lot of talk about the shortcomings of LLMs. They don’t actually reason. They’re expensive, especially when running in a loop. They’re quite slow at doing things. There’s a narrow category of use cases that LLMs excel at, one of which is “sifting through the noise”. The noise is everything we have to process to get to what we really want. Here are some use cases I haven’t heard about that I’ve enjoyed as a software engineer. Searching through Customer Conversations A PM colleague uploaded the transcript of every call with our top customers into an Embedding DB. Now their product proposals are deeply backed by evidence. We know 40% of our top customers have mentioned this pain point. The PM also identified a list of eager private beta customers to try out our new feature. This is useful when the customer’s problem is abstract. Often, these issues don’t have clear solutions, or th
Grand Tetons and Yellowstone 2026
Jun 3, 2026 · original
I spent 6 nights in Grand Teton NP in a campervan, and one night in Yellowstone! Hot takes: Grand Teton is better 6 nights at Teton is perfect 1 night at Yellowstone is more than enough Yellowstone vibes are off It’s hard to dress for — lows of 30F, highs of 70F is super annoying We rented a campervan. It’s expensive but nice! Grand Teton is amazing Overall I highly recommend staying at Signal Summit Campground, it’s our absolute favorite. It’s much smaller, very quiet, out of the way from the freeway, and right by the water. We spent many days/nights hanging out at the Boat Ramp for the campground, watching the sun set over the tetons while meeting deer and foxes. Gros Ventre campground was alright. It’s pronounced gro von-ter cause it’s French from the beaver trappers. It’s strangely outside the park. I would not recommend Cascade Canyon. We did once hiking from the visitor center to t
Empty Bernzomatic Propane Tank Weighs 14.5oz or 412g (Tare)
Oct 29, 2025 · original
The post Empty Bernzomatic Propane Tank Weighs 14.5oz or 412g (Tare) first appeared on Aggressively Paraphrasing Me .
Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What”
Sep 30, 2025 · original
A few weeks ago, I changed my Slack channel sections. I’m now more responsive and engaged, while also feeling less stressed. How? By sorting my Slack channels by urgency, or how often I want to read them. What Projects Team Alerts Sibling Teams Announcements SF Office Social Noisy Versus How Often Read Now Read Hourly Read Daily Read Whenever Sorting by “how often” lets me read my most urgent messages first, focusing my energy on what matters to me. Once I feel tired, I stop reading. By focusing on my most urgent and important channels, I hold confidence that I have already taken care of what I need to, reducing my stress. A screenshot of my Slack sections. The top consists of my “high priority” sections like Read Now, Threads, DMs, and new channels. I go through my unreads from top to bottom until I am tired or I’m done. By framing a channel’s importance through the Eisenhower Matrix, I
adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat
Aug 21, 2025 · original
status.href.cat now reports and notifies me if my home power/internet goes down! The other day, PG&E and my landlord emailed me about a power outage. The elevator system needed a technician to reset it. All the e-key readers in the lobby no longer work. This got me wondering, how long was the power out for? With this, I decided to add uptime stats for my home electricity. PG&E emailed about the power outage. 10 minutes later, my power was restored. My landlord emailed, reporting all the things that they checked and are failing My first thought was, how can I check if my home power is out? I have some IoT devices around the house connected to the Wi-Fi. If the power goes out, these devices would go offline, right? Unfortunately, it was a big waste of time; the “last connected” timestamps from the Wyze API are from almost 20 hours ago. I guess Wyze devices are incredibly passive, which doe
I modeled for swap.care, a probiotic deodorant. It works really well!
May 26, 2025 · original
A few months ago, I trialed a new probiotic deodorant that uses GMO’ed bacteria to fight odors. It worked REALLY well. I applied the cream once and it worked very well for a week, and still had noticeable improvements to my normal body odor after a month. I did not need to use deodorant at all for a week! Normally, even if I shower in the morning, I’ll still come out stinky and sweaty by 5pm. With Swap, I have no worries even if I’m super active. The sweat doesn’t smell! Currently, it’s only available in Japan, but swap.care will hopefully be available in the US soon. I think it’ll be particularly useful for people like me who sweat just by walking around the city, and are self-conscious about body odor throughout the day. I’d be excited to try this product backpacking as well. Swapを試してから、毎日デオドラントを使うことを気にしなくてよくなりました。 Since I tried Swap, I no longer have to worry about using deodorant eve
Featured: 18 Reasons Community Porgrams Coordinator!
May 25, 2025 · original
If you’re looking for a nice non-profit job running community cooking and nutrition classes in San Francisco, check out 18 Reasons! They’re hiring! Here I am, teaching a class of elderly seniors how to balance eating nutritiously with their various medical and health needs. https://www.instagram.com/p/DJnIVeds8jy The post Featured: 18 Reasons Community Porgrams Coordinator! first appeared on Aggressively Paraphrasing Me .
docker compose up - 401 Unauthorized
Apr 7, 2025 · original
I was trying to set up a new retool instance on docker when I encountered a 401 Unauthorized error: $ docker compose up -d [+] Running 3/3 ✘ retooldb-postgres Error failed to resolve reference "docker.io/library/postgres:15... 0.8s ✘ https-portal Error context canceled 0.8s ✘ postgres Error context canceled 0.8s Error response from daemon: failed to resolve reference "docker.io/library/postgres:15.12": failed to authorize: failed to fetch oauth token: unexpected status from GET request to https://auth.docker.io/token?scope=repository%3Alibrary%2Fpostgres%3Apull&service=registry.docker.io: 401 Unauthorized I had just signed up for a new docker account and had not verified my email yet. Docker will return 401 Unauthorized if your email is not verified. I’ve hit this issue a few times before, always after starting a new job. Quite frustrating! The post docker compose up - 401 Unauthorized f
Can you solve this AI/Math puzzle and get a prize? I couldn’t.
Mar 31, 2025 · original
I found a poster with a math puzzle that points to a reward website. I couldn’t figure it out, so maybe the prize is still available! The paper was taped on a traffic light pole at 15th St and Mission St in SF. It prints a math-ish AI-related formula followed by “.ai/givemeprize” and entices the reader to “come find me”. The SF Armory stands out of focus in the background, previously housing kink.com and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Both the SF Armory and the telephone pole now sit empty and barren. Here it is all typed out: prefix( [ 3! + argmax( softmax( [log(2), pi + e] ) ) + log * (16) ] ^ [ BusyBeaver(4) + ⌈H100 flops / A100 flops⌉ + 1 ] ) .ai/givemeprize Stop here if you want to work on the puzzle yourself! My Breakdown Below is everything I figured out before I got stuck. argmax refers to numpy.argmax returns the index of the maximum in an array softmax is more interesting.

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