About two years ago, right as the LLM craze was really popping off, I stumbled on WhisperAI–a tool released by OpenAI that let you transcribe audio (voice-to-text). I actually uncovered it when I was looking at a way to dictate some of my personal notes in Neovim (vimwiki). I found nerd-dictation [https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation] which was super amazing, but didn’t work on my macbook and died on me as linux began the march away from x11 to wayland. Nerd-dictation required some of the security…“openness” that X11 afforded. I switched to wayland to get something working on my Pop_OS! machine, and when I did that, I lost my ability to use nerd-dictation.
Stoney made this during his night to cook during the OBX trip in 2025. Ripe bursted cherry tomatoes, stir in burrata or stracciatella, and scoop it all up with crispy garlic crostinis.
I set up a local LLM using ROCm on my desktop in my last post. So I have the LLM running locally, but its pretty clunky and as a paying user of ChatGPT, I want that cleaner UI/UX. Enter open-webui. This is exactly what I was looking for as a front-end for the ollama server I set up.
This has gotten sooo much easier than when I tried to set this up 2 years ago. ROCm has come a long way, but the support
and tooling has advanced as well. Now you don’t have to jump through tons of hoops to get AI libraries and software to
work with ROCm. The last time I tried this, I needed to add ubuntu repos, edit my /etc/os-release file to pretend I was
using ubuntu", and do a rain-dance to get my Raedeon 6900xt in a usable state.
These stuffed peppers are filled with a hearty mix of rice, ground meat, and tomato, then baked until the peppers are tender and everything comes together in one simple dish.
I am switching from Publii to Hugo because I wanted to take advantage of the text notes I was already taking with Vimwiki for my various projects. The Publii interface was nice, but I’m already writing notes in a format that doesn’t require me to use their WYSIWYG editor. I know that seems lazy, but it’s an extra step that caused just enough friction that I wouldn’t update the blog.
If you are trying to share between *nix systems, the Network File Servers (NFS) are really easy to set up. Note: If you are planning on sharing with Windows machines, SMB/Samba is a better option.
It should also be noted that NFS doesn’t restrict, by default, to individual users. It limits to IPs and IP ranges–which makes it ideal for secure networks, but less-than-ideal for non-secure / public networks.
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
1/2 cup finely chopped green onion
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1 cup sour cream
1 can chopped green chilies
1/2 tsp salt
2 cans chicken (all white meat) OR 4 chicken breasts, cooked and chopped
12 corn tortillas, hand shredded
Important Ingredient Note
Use Chopped Green Chilies from the Mexican Food section - these come in very small cans. DO NOT GET FIRE-ROASTED versions! The cans look almost identical but the taste is completely different.
Chicken Cooking Tip
Cook raw chicken breasts by placing in a sauce pan, just cover with water, and bring to boil. Turn heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour until no pink remains in center. Remove chicken, cool, and chop into bite-sized pieces. This keeps the meat tender and moist.
