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🧭 OData Walked So GraphQL Could Run (and Sometimes Trip)

🧭 OData Walked So GraphQL Could Run (and Sometimes Trip)

🧓 The Old Guard Meets the Hype Train OData has been around since before microservices were cool — quietly powering enterprise APIs while everyone else was busy reinventing REST for the 47th time. Then along comes GraphQL, all swagger and curly braces, promising flexibility, perfect queries, and eternal happiness (as long as

Stop Checking Dashboards — Let n8n Email You Google Analytics Reports Instead!

Stop Checking Dashboards — Let n8n Email You Google Analytics Reports Instead!

Do you still open Google Analytics every Monday to see if your website’s traffic went up? Yeah… same here — until I automated the whole thing. In this post, we’ll create a workflow that fetches your site metrics from Google Analytics, formats them into clean HTML, and emails them

LLMs at Ludicrous Speed: Dockerizing vLLM for Real Apps

LLMs at Ludicrous Speed: Dockerizing vLLM for Real Apps

If you’ve ever watched your GPU twiddle its thumbs between prompts, this one’s for you. In this post we’ll cover what vLLM is, why it’s fast, how to run it with Docker Compose, and how to test it with real calls. I’ll also show concrete

Shrinking Giants: Understanding LLM Quantization Models (Q2, Q4, Q6 and Friends)

Shrinking Giants: Understanding LLM Quantization Models (Q2, Q4, Q6 and Friends)

Why Quantization Matters Large Language Models (LLMs) are huge. Even a “small” 7B parameter model can chew up 14+ GB in FP16 (16-bit floating point). If you’ve tried running one locally without a beefy GPU, you’ve probably noticed your machine crying in pain—or worse, swapping memory like

Tame the Family Chaos: Build a Smart Calendar with DAKboard + Raspberry Pi (Free Basic Tier Included)

Tame the Family Chaos: Build a Smart Calendar with DAKboard + Raspberry Pi (Free Basic Tier Included)

Introduction Every family has the same struggle: keeping track of everyone’s schedules. Swimming lessons overlap with dentist appointments, grocery runs clash with homework deadlines, and before you know it—you’re double-booked for two birthday parties on the same Saturday. Enter DAKboard, a customizable digital display that transforms your

Cut LLM Costs: Access Your Home Ollama from the Cloud via Twingate

Cut LLM Costs: Access Your Home Ollama from the Cloud via Twingate

Running LLMs in the cloud can burn a hole in your wallet faster than a bad crypto investment. Costs are steep, and every token adds up. My workaround? I run Ollama on my PC at home and connect my cloud Linux VM to it using Twingate. That way, I get

BattleBots + MCP = Fun: Building Custom Tools in C# That Your IDE and Workflows Understand

BattleBots + MCP = Fun: Building Custom Tools in C# That Your IDE and Workflows Understand

Opening AI copilots and IDE extensions are evolving fast, and Microsoft’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as the glue that makes custom tools discoverable and usable by editors like VS Code and Visual Studio Insiders. For this post, I’ll be using .NET Core 10 along with Visual

Turning Hours of Gamer Rants into Searchable Gold with n8n and Supabase

Turning Hours of Gamer Rants into Searchable Gold with n8n and Supabase

Introduction Besides writing about software architecture and tinkering with homelabs, I also run a podcast: GamerTV Podcast. It’s a Spanish-language podcast about videogames, told from the perspective of two 40-something grumpy gamers — yours truly (Darth Seldon) and my co-host Mr. Chilangiux. We rant, reminisce, and sometimes even make sense

Pardon our dust

I am migrating to a newer engine, however I broke some images. Will fix them...! Sorry!!!!