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codazoda
4,739karma·1,614submissions·March 24, 2014
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Software engineer, entrepreneur, serial hobbyist, and writer.
Over 500 technical articles on joeldare.com generating over 10k monthly views. Creator of Neat CSS, the minimalist CSS framework with over 700 stars on GitHub. Author of Write & Publish Your Book, rated 5-stars on Amazon.
Joel Dare
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https://neat.joeldare.comrecent activity (1,614 total)
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I've hatched a plan to build a light-weight AI model on a $149 mini-pc and host it from my bedroom. I wonder if I could follow that up by buying a 3090 (jumping the price by $1000 plus whatever I…
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Like other posters said, maybe a local model is a good option. I've found the Qwen3:4B (reasoning) model works pretty well for many things. I'm planning to run a local model on a $149 mini-p…
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I'm glad to see this was a bug of some sort and (hopefully) not a full RAM limitation. I've used quite a few of these models on my MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM. I also have a plan to build a…
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Many rural areas have no cellular service. I vacation in an area where Satellite, landline phone service, and some very bad DSL service are the only options. Since it's a vacation spot, we opt no…
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The post about my plan is now online: https://joeldare.com/my_plan_to_build_an_ai_chat_bot_in_my_b... …
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I once worked for a company that went from 100k annually to over $1B in under a year. I was 18 and they gave me a corporate card and almost no particular restrictions on its use. I thought they were a…
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I’m planning to deploy a 1B model, feed it all the documents I’ve ever written, host it on a $149 mini-PC in my bedroom, and enable you to chat with it. I’ve released similar projects before. I’ll dro…
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I was just writing up a plan this morning. I use local models a fair amount, especially on trips. My plan is to build a $150 AI bot, host it in my bedroom, give it access to all my writing, and let th…
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An old boss of mine used to say, “There’s money in confusion.”
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We use Notion and most people seem to like it. I find it quite quirky but it does a good job of allowing comments and feedback that can then be marked as "resolved". I'd probably prefer…
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I want a fax on my birthday! Sign me up.
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That’s why I’m writing pure html and css in 2025. These sites can last a very long time. I just wrote about this a couple weeks ago: https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-c…
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I do that, but I’m never satisfied.
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Does it work? I’ve considered using this strategy after my 3-day bender (like op) and then three months of trying to gain traction. Instead of just letting the domain rot and expire, I could put up a …
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My experience has been that people sometimes obsess over speed for things like how fast a search result returns but not over things like how fast a page renders or how many bites we send the user.
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Interestingly they have 25 to 9-pin adapters and the majority of DB25 devices I worked with were fine either way. So, the devices generally used 9 pins or less (or at least 9 or less pins were "i…
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I haven't tried uv but my biggest pain point with Python has been the way env works. I always find it painful and odd. Backward compatibility, which I suppose is closely related to needing to use…
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Crazy amount of effort here. Awesome. I did this for a single color from a single printer—the black toner from my Brother laser printer. I left it in my West facing office window for about 18 months. …
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I think we're there, not 2 years away. I have software that won't work quite right in Safari or Firefox through a VPN every single day. Maybe it's the VPN and maybe it's the browse…
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I did not find Apple iMessage to work on my recent cruise without the room Wifi. I didn't really need internet with a tiny bit of planning though. The cruise line had its own app and THAT had a c…
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This is not at all surprising to me. Just this week I asked for a picture of a cartoon Car. It produced an image so similar to Pixar Cars that I was surprised. I was hoping for something a bit more cr…
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This gets really “gray”. I work on web software and we tend to deploy at the end of the day. Meaning only the smallest programs are “new” or not yet in service. This is a mess.
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This is also an exercise in deductive reasoning, which I recently read, somewhere here on Hacker News, is a good skill to exercise.