One of the first ‘big’ maintenance items I decided to tackle as part of my 88k maintenance adventure was the CVT transmission fluid flush. I did tons of research and watched a handful of youtube videos. Its a pretty straightforward process. I wrote up the procedure, as I understood it from all of my research, then had ChatGPT verify it and format it for me and put it into a guide I could follow.

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been watching car restoration videos on YouTube. I got sucked into a YouTube rabbit hole after my 3-year-old daughter caught me surfing Reddit on my phone and wanted to watch the video I was watching. It was an old Land Cruiser restoration video. This specific video became an after-dinner event for the next couple of weeks at my house.

My wife needed an oil change and her car still has the free dealership oil changes. I decided to take mine in as well because I paid $175 to continue my “MVP Service” plan for another 2 years.

My wife found this recipe on instagram or someplace and has made it a few times. It’s fantastic and its relatively easy to make. The original recipe calls for gnocchi, but my wife, who doesn’t like the texture of gnocchi, ‘accidentally’ grabbed 3 cheese Tortellini the first time she made this and thats the way we tend to make it.

So, you can make it with Tortellini or gnocci.

Ingredients#

 1 lb ground mild Italian sausage
 8 oz bag of spinach, roughly chopped (or hand-shredded)
 2 tbsp minced garlic
 2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
 2 cups half-and-half (or heavy cream)
 3 oz grated Parmesan
 1 package of 3 cheese Tortellini
 1 tbsp tomato paste
 1 tsp olive oil
 1 tsp salt
 1 tsp pepper
 1 tsp Italian seasoning
 1 tsp oregano
 1 tsp parsley
 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
 1 tsp onion powder
 1 tsp garlic powder

Instructions#

1. Heat oil & garlic#

Add 1 tsp olive oil to a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the minced garlic and cook until fragrant.

AI Auto Transcription System#

Introduction#

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.

Ingredients#

# For the dip
 2 cups cherry or grape tomatoes  
 2 Tbsp olive oil (or enough to coat the baking dish)  
 ½ tsp salt (or to taste)  
 ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper  
 Pinch of red pepper flakes (optional, for heat)  
 1–2 cloves garlic, minced  
 1 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley  
 1 tsp dried oregano (or 1 Tbsp fresh, chopped)  
 1 burrata (or equivalent amount of stracciatella / burrata filling)  
 Handful of fresh basil leaves, torn  
 2 Tbsp freshly grated Parmesan (more for serving, optional)  

# For the garlic crostinis
 1 French baguette (or similar crusty bread)  
 2–3 Tbsp butter, softened  
 1 clove garlic, minced  
 Pinch of salt  
 1 Tbsp chopped parsley  
 1 Tbsp grated Parmesan (optional)

Instructions#

1. Preheat & prep#

Preheat your oven to 425 °F (220 °C).

Using open-webui#

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.

I decided to go with the Docker setup.

Running ROCm on Pop!#

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.

Updating DNS Records#

This was a fairly straightforward process:

1. Log into GitHub > Go to your public repo > Settings > Pages: and enter your domain in the Custom Domain section
2. Add your domain name www.wesgould.com
3. Log into your DNS provider.
   • Delete CNAME / A-RECORDs for www.wesgould.com and wesgould.com to avoid conflicts with the new records.
   • ADD CNAME RECORD for www.wesgould.com.
   • Add A-RECORD for wesgould.com.
4. To create A records, point your apex domain to the IP addresses for GitHub Pages:

   - 185.199.108.153
   - 185.199.109.153
   - 185.199.110.153
   - 185.199.111.153
   

Home Bakes#

Family recipe from Oma passed down.

Ingredients#

 2 cups Sugar
 4 Tbls. Cocoa
 1 stick Butter
 ½ cup Milk
 ½ cup Peanut Butter
 2 ½ cups 1 Minute Oatmeal

Directions:#

1. Lay down two strips of waxed paper. (Foil can also be used in a pinch.)

2. In a large saucepan, combine sugar and cocoa. Stir until well blended.