Reports and how-tos
A simple guide to RSS readers, without algorithms or accounts
Your phone knows what keeps you scrolling. It has studied how long you pause on each post, what makes you tap, what makes you stop. Every refresh reshuffles the deck to give you just enough that is interesting to keep going. RSS does none of that. It gives you a list, in the order it was published, from sources you chose. No ranking, no reshuffling, no guess about what will keep you there.
Nextcloud, Gitea, Hugo, and a Raspberry Pi — all on machines I control
I wanted to host my own website without giving up the convenience of modern cloud tools. The usual easy version would be to spread the pieces across familiar services: Google Drive or OneDrive for files, GitHub.com for version history, and a hosted platform for the website itself. That can work. GitHub is a very useful hosted Git service, but it is still a service owned and operated by someone else.
Running a small AI chatbot locally with Ollama — no programming required
Most people first meet AI through a website like ChatGPT. That works well, but it can also make AI feel like something that only exists inside someone else’s service. In this post we are going to try something different: running a small chatbot on your own computer.