Jacob Emcken

I noticed that Qwen 3.8 was described using the following: … a native vision-language model that understands images and videos … and wondered why llama.cpp wouldn’t allow me to add images to the chat context (while allowing text and PDF files), and why Op…

Having a beautiful staircase leading up to a platform and raised garden requires an equally beautiful railing to prevent minifigures from falling and hitting their heads. 🤕 The following post showcases the different prototypes and iterations I explored wh…

A little over a year ago I set up a local LLM with the expectation that I would use it for all kinds of cool things.

I recently reawakened my interest in LEGO after months of not feeling the draw.

I’ve been contracting in the public sector for several years now, and seeing how time and resources (money) are sometimes spent can make me queasy.

Even the fastest web servers become bottlenecks when handling CPU-intensive API work.

AI tries to make everything easy… convenient, but life without discomfort is not something to desire.

… did quite a lot, actually.

The other day, I was taken back to the “good old days”, and not in a good way.

Applying retry strategies on API calls to make them more robust often brings its own set of problems.

With this post, I am in deeper waters than usual.

I reflect on AI from time to time, and though I don’t see how it will replace me in the near future, it is worth keeping an eye on.

It just looks amazing when things are neatly organized, so of course, I wanted some crisp-looking labels for my drawers with LEGO.

The last couple of years, I’ve been finding stress at work more often than I’d like.

Until recently, my AI usage has been limited to ChatGPT and a bit of Midjourney.

I have started a journey to disentangle myself from Big Tech — at least partly.

A Clojure function is often defined with name and arguments on a single line: (defn some-function [with-several arguments] ...

I remember the feeling it triggered when I heard a Danish politician claim: “With surveillance, freedom increases.” — Nick Hækkerup, 2019 Source: Tv fra Folketinget (around 9 minutes in).

Simple Storage Service or S3 Cloud Object Storage is a versatile and cheap storage.

While doomscrolling on LinkedIn the other day, a comment linking to an article/essay about what to expect from the newly inaugurated U.S. president and his administration caught my eye.

I’m flipping through my quest log to reflect on the trials I’ve faced recently.

I ventured far and wide on my Clojure Jekyll adventure right after the last check-in.

We need electronic devices — like phones and computers — that we can trust, but with everything happening right now, America doesn’t exactly inspire trust.

A little while ago, I was presented with an old 2016 blog post by Ricardo J.

With a little help, aws-simple-sign now supports PUT URLs and I have released a new version (2.1.0) of the library.

Even if you’re open-minded and free from bad habits and addictions, I believe you’ll find the following a great source of inspiration, just as I did.

It is fascinating how we humans often choose to treat the symptom instead of addressing the actual problem — like endlessly replacing water-filled buckets with empty ones instead of fixing the leaking roof.

The Clojure library aws-simple-sign was in pre-release for more than six months.

The Liquid templating language is essential for Jekyll and its themes.

On the 10th anniversary of Jekyll being my blog engine of choice, my curiosity (and spare time during the holidays) got the better of me.

Every time I heard people praise static types, I wondered why I didn’t share their enthusiasm.

Plus 30 years ago, probably around seventh grade, I remember my teacher asking the classroom: How do you get better a writing essays and short stories?

Summer or something resembling it has come to Denmark, and the winter blues is losing its grip.

I’ve been tumbling down a rabbit hole for a little while now.

While roaming the internet for information on different topics, I also found a few totally unrelated posts, but interesting nevertheless.

A while back, I needed to generate presigned URLs for S3 objects in Amazon Web Services.

At work, I needed to compare some huge (almost identical) JSON data structures.

My team and I were publishing a specific set of files several times weekly and we were obligated to put them on Microsoft SharePoint for non-technical people to be able to find them.

I am many things.

There are many both really awesome and really horrible stories about how the internet is shaping our lives in the 21st century.

For testing, I often find myself prioritizing having small data sets because they are easier to comprehend.

JWT seems broadly used around the internet for all kinds of services and I wanted to use it for a service of my own.

As part of a project I needed to handle webhooks from Hubspot (a CRM), and since the implementation turned out nicely, I thought it would be worth blogging about.

I’ve found myself using Clojure core.async in a very specific way on several occasions, and I thought it might be worth sharing.

When running MongoDB in Docker, diagnostics logs are sent to STDOUT by default.

It is impossible for any human to take in all the information available to us.

It started with a business idea a few years ago… a business idea that would require a graph database, specifically Neo4j.

I’ve been programming Clojure for several years, and yet I’ve managed to avoid protocols during all that time (I’ve also avoided macros, but that is another story).

This rant is about a bad habit some developers pick up and seem to have a hard time ditching again… even after gaining lots of experience.

Building ClojureScript Single Page Applications (SPA) on Netlify just works.