featured [ai] 2026-06-12
Qwen and the mini-pc: a month tagging photos at night
A local LLM on a cast-off office mini-pc writes the alt text for my archive while I sleep. One month in: better than I expected, worse than I tell people.
read the entryET ▸ LAB 6 entries in the log machines running
the log.
The other half of the bench: LLMs running at home, hardware brought back to life, trading experiments, self-hosting and things that work at two in the morning. Not a tech blog — the lab notebook.
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