Greg Hilston

Build a local script to summarize and query YouTube videos and audio files using locally-runnable LLMs.

How to write one-off Python scripts with described dependencies.

I’ve recently had the desire to build myself a daily digest.

While Claude Code has become my coding assistant of choice, I don’t always want to be using a remotely hosted LLM.

How to configure Claude Code to leverage Gemini for cheaper execution

I’ve been experimenting with integrating LLMs into software development for quite some time now.

How easily orchestrating containers can make development, and integration testing easier.

How to easily switch between different LLMs using Open Router as a unified interface

How Anthropic’s new open protocol is standardizes the way LLMs interact with external systems and data

A guide to installing and running Claude Desktop on Linux systems using Nix Flakes

Learn how to dynamically display Github content in your Hugo website using shortcodes, keeping your content automatically in sync with your repositories

A collection of protein-rich, customizable Ninja Creami recipes with tips for perfect consistency

Exploring real-time social media data processing with Go by tapping into Bluesky’s websocket firehose

A guide to installing and configuring NixOS on WSL2, including graphical application support.

A guide to my Windows 11 installation process using unattend/answer files for automated, debloated setups, combined with winget for application installation.

A personal journey from distro hopping and manual configuration management to discovering NixOS’s declarative approach, exploring how it solves common Linux setup challenges through configuration files, flakes, and reproducible environments.

I describe my work from home setup

Create a prompt out of an entire directory

Want to quickly copy file contents to your system clipboard from the command line?

I live on a property that has zero cellular service.

Battery Save Mode Quirks One of the most frustrating situations I originally experienced Cat S22 Flip was caused by its battery save mode.

Converting a book/movie script to a new genre using self hosted LLMs

Why I Switched to a Flip Phone Recently, I decided to switch to a flip phone as my daily driver.

When managing multiple servers, it’s important to have a reliable load balancer in place.

How to ask questions about your local files

An Obsidian trick I'm using to keep track of my recipes, and other files.

I’m a big fan of tiling window managers.

Intro Large language models (LLMs) are impressive, capable of generating human-quality text, translating languages, and answering questions.

Introduction In the world of software development, there are many different approaches to building applications.

Introduction Living in a house without central air, I’ve dreamed about getting heat pumps and mini splits installed.

When writing software, we often need to handle various types of input arguments.

Privately chat with your own data using RAG.

Allowing you to spin up multiple cloned VMs

A walk through of how I run LLMs locally, in a Crew-like fashion.

How to self host a web UI to interact with LLMs, local or remote

How to easily run local LLMs

A full example of this repository can be found on my Github here.

Mod compatibility was broken by a new update…

A series of things I’ve done to be more comfortable during power outages.

Using Docker

We’re going to leverage Docker, Cloudflare DNS, and Caddy to set up a reverse proxy for our home-lab, which is both easy to configure, and automatically handles SSL certs for us.

I’ve been maintaining a sourdough culture since early 2020.

What a task’s priority is, and a few simple techniques to make prioritization easier

How to convert video or audio files into text transcriptions from the command line or Python.

Come see these beauts

Including using Docker and a GPU

Learn how to self host your very own Diffusion Model to generate images

My pitch for how to organize your markdown files using Obsidian

The best plugins I’ve found for Obsidian

What tools you can use to recreate a tiling window experience on OS X