The week my model went dark
Privacy was never the only reason to run a model locally — resilience is. A fourth case for local AI, made concrete by 18 days of a frontier model going dark.
Local AI
When is a local LLM actually the right tool?
Three cases where running a model on your own machine wins, and the longer list where it loses.
The state of web scraping in the AI era: still relevant or a relic?
Why scraping didn't die when LLMs arrived, and how I decide between Beautiful Soup and Scrapy for a given job.
Level up your local AI: getting started with LM Studio
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A quick-start guide to installing LM Studio, connecting local models via Ollama, and LM Studio basics.
Void your concerns: a guide to private AI in Void Editor
Void editor plus a local AI model is a private dev pair that keeps your code off vendor servers. Install, settings, integration.