Why I Built Purple — And Why It Took 20 Years to Get Here
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Recently, I took on a project to build AChat, a chat application that runs on my local network and operates entirely offline. The challenge was to utilize a powerful AI model, Meta’s LLaMa, while keeping everything on-premise, without relying on cloud services. It turns out, when you have a GPU-equipped server at home, it’s entirely […]
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I recently built a video converter application for my wife, who works with Amazon and regularly needs to convert videos into various formats and resolutions for different placements on the platform. Manually adjusting video settings for each requirement was time-consuming and error-prone, so I decided to automate the entire process for her. The Problem: Repetitive […]
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What are the limitations of AI currently developed by the biggest companies like Meta, Google, or OpenAI? Since I started developing applications and APIs utilizing various machine learning models to predict local weather, recognize handwriting and translate it to LaTeX, solve mathematical equations, predict cryptocurrency trends, and auto buy/sell BTC, ETH, and others, I have […]
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Writing this post, I wanted to take you, dear reader, on a journey through history. My journey has been intertwined with computers for as long as I can remember. My first encounter with a computer was around 1990, during a vacation spent at my grandmother’s in a town near my hometown. It was then that […]
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When publishing an API on the internet, we open ourselves up to a wonderful world of users, but also a world full of threats. Proper design patterns, good security practices, and audits and penetration tests help mitigate many of the risks associated with open API access. There are many design patterns and best practices for […]
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Go is very powerful language, but even with all this power time to time we need to go lower level and write some “kosher code” that will be hyper optimized either for memory usage of performance. In Golang we do have two interfaces to do so, depending on the level we want to write our […]
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