10 August 2025

30 links · Sunday

The 5 stages of SaaS death - Arnon Shimoni

Last week, I met a founder who’d just lost a pretty big $2M deal to a 3-person startup with a half-finished product (I call these “3 Stanford grads in a trenchcoat”). He was annoyed they didn’t even have a basic dashboard or settings page. I think he wasn’t an…

Making a font of my handwriting · Chameth.com

Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days.…

wizenheimer dot dev

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Logic and creativity

Recently I filled in a survey about the shape I see the the year as when imagining it. This is a topic I find interesting since my own experience when asking people this question is that it never fails to give interesting answers and usually an interesting dis…

Expose Offline LLM via RESTful API

Want to make your own offline Large Language Model (LLM) available through an API endpoint? In this video, I’ll walk you step-by-step through creating an ASP.NET Core Web API that serves responses from your locally hosted LLM—no cloud required. You’ll learn: …

Offline LLM + MCP: Smart Tool Calling in Action

Learn how to combine an offline LLM with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to build an AI that can discover tools dynamically and call the right one. In this demo, I use Mistral 7B Instruct (GGUF) running locally to: Read the MCP function catalog in real time …

ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz

YAML is known to be nobody's friend and almost everyone's enemy. Try this to see if it's your friend or foe!

Blueberry Hill

ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as “smarter, faster, and more useful,” OpenAI co-found…