Personal Projects and Fun Stuff

  • Building a Semantic Search for Subtitles with Python, Streamlit, and PostgreSQL

    Since I’ve got the tools to create GIFs, I needed a way to find these clips in videos. In a movie for instance, Office Space, I remember a scene where Peter was talking to his neighbour about getting out of working the weekend. The phrase “I’m doing the drywall at the new McDonald’s” was somewhere…

  • Using FFMPEG to Slice a Video

    There’s plenty of software out there that will allow you to record a slice of a video. I like command line tools for this sort or thing because I find they often are a little more flexible and precise. I also hope to use some of these command line tools in a future automation. That…

  • Use Less Common or Customized LLMs in Ollama and Docker

    This is sort of a continuation of my previous post on how to get Ollama and Open WebUI running using Docker found here. So, you’ve got a way to access LLMs to chat, but you’re using Ollama and there’s a subset of models that are easy to pull and serve. But HuggingFace has all these…

  • Creating GIFs from Video with FFMPEG

    I love reacting with GIFs, pretty much every chance I get. There’s a ton I still don’t understand about my brain, but I find it very easy to relate a situation to a clip from a show or movie I’ve watched. This leads me to search the internet for this very specific scene and I…

  • Private LLM Chats with Ollama and Open WebUI – including LLaMa 3.1

    Perhaps you’re concerned about chatting with one of these publicly hosted LLMs, or you’ve continuously hit your limit on the number of questions asked. These are just a few of the reasons you may want to run an LLM locally. I’ll be using docker to run these applications because I like being able to easily…

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