Missives

Short notes, rants, tips, scattered thoughts..

Ollama Local AI Playbook

16 Jun 2025

Running AI models locally on your Mac M1 is easier than you think.

No cloud. No expensive subscriptions. No unnecessary complexity. Just your own hardware and full control.

I just released a 30-minute playbook that shows exactly how to run Ollama fully local on Mac M1:

  • Full install guide
  • Copy-paste terminal commands
  • Model recommendations tested on M1 hardware
  • Performance optimization tips
  • Local security checklist
  • Bonus cheat sheet included

Launch price: $5

Install & Neovim Bootstrap Revamp

31 May 2025

Ongoing work on fully revamping my dot-files install.sh and Neovim stack.

  • Dotfiles bootstrap is now modular and declarative.
  • install.sh handles symlinks, backups, plugin sync, and full lazy.nvim bootstrap automatically.
  • Neovim config is framework-free, built from scratch with isolated plugin control.
  • Full lazy-loading using lazy.nvim, with sniper-level loading precision.
  • LSP, CMP, Treesitter, and nvim-tree properly initialized using config blocks.
  • Keymaps handled via which-key with full namespace documentation.

Work in progress. Updates and refinements will continue over the next days.

MDN Report A+

20 May 2025

MDN A+ badge

Ran my site through MDN’s security scanner and kept tweaking until I hit 120/100 (A+).

Checked the scan history and the very first one, back in 2018, scored 20/100 (F).

Always improving.

Website updates

18 May 2025

This website used to run on Cloudflare Pages. And being 100% honest with my visitors: I had all analytics disabled.
But I still wanted to know more about my traffic without compromising anyone’s privacy.

So I migrated everything to my own VPS. Now I use nothing but raw logs + GoAccess to understand what’s going on.
No JavaScript tracking, no fingerprinting, no big tech spy bullshit.

Nginx logs + GoAccess = enough intel to know what’s happening, without selling anyone out.