OpenAI Open Model Hackathon

Posted on Thu 14 August 2025 in Hackathons • Tagged with AI, IoT, Home Automation, MCP, OpenAI

The What

I am participating in the OpenAI Open Model Hackathon (repo hosted here) hosted by DevPost for fun and some hands-on experience with self-hosting an LLM, in this case OpenAI's new gpt-oss model.

My project/ submission/ design is built around the idea of leveraging a local, self-hosted LLM to …


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Portfolio Setup

Posted on Sat 09 August 2025 in Projects • Tagged with IaC, CI/CD, AWS, Pelican

Introduction

I've poked at setting up a portfolio page a few times in the past, including once using the Golang based Hugo, but I didn't have the time to set one up properly. However, as I find myself between jobs, completed my first Masters, about a month out from starting …


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