My home media center is ready to print! Going to take several days to get it printed and together, and I’ll probably have to re-print something but it’s time to start makin’ parts!
-
-
Alex Standiford
A handy little not-so-commonly known trick for getting a centerline between holes using calipers.
-
Alex Standiford
I un-wittingly re-invented tea this week.
“I want an inexpensive beverage that isn’t necessarily sweet, but is kinda fruity and something I can easily drink throughout the day that will make water interesting.”
“Maybe I can steep some fruit overnight in a jar and fill up some water bottles to put in my fridge…that sounds good, and is 1/100th the cost of Vitamin water!”
“Oooh! I know! I can add a single tea bag to the jar to add a little more to it!”
“Hmm…I need to filter this now. What should I use? I Know! My Tea kettle!”
“…oh.”
-
Alex Standiford
If you’ve worked with someone who has experience building sites using Elementor, and you’ve had a good experience working with them, please recommend them below.
(Do not recommend yourself!)
-
Making My Business Siren-Centric
I’ve spent way too much time trying to build separate sales pipelines when the answer was right in front of me—Siren. Instead of growing Siren in spite of my business, I’m building my business around Siren. Every product, every service—Siren is the core. 🚀
-
Alex Standiford
Oh my GOD Claude has become so freaking restrictive on its usage. Feeling like I’m paying for a demo of a product these days.
-
Alex Standiford
The plan is to tuck the mount it behind the TV on the wall. Brackets will hold it on the wall but make it fairly easy to remove if I ever need too.
Although it’s going to be running Ubuntu, so I can connect to it with another computer pretty easily.
-
Alex Standiford
Experimenting with setting up a local docker container with Chroma and LMStudio today. I have this vision of using a really good AI bot without API limits and also keeping my information local. I get twitchy when I think about uploading my entire knowledge-base on someone else’s server.
-
Alex Standiford
So I set up a script that runs once a day on my home server. It grabs all content that hasn’t been saved from my personal site, and saves a markdown version of it with images, and everything. Not just for backups, but also so I can start using some local LLM stuff with my blog and my personal notes. Kinda neat to see all of my content ever published automatically get put into Obsidian.
-
Alex Standiford
I’m conceptualizing a self-hosted service that pulls data from handpicked RSS sources (video, audio, text), parses that content with a local LLM prompt, and then turns it into an audio file summary that captures the high points to serve as a sort of home-made news brief. Could prove to be very useful!