Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation

I’m always interested in reading how people use language models for automating boring tasks or performing what they wouldn’t be able to do manually. In his post, Dries explores using several local language models for generating alt text for 10,000 photos! This is double-interesting topic to me, since I also love photography . I recommend reading the original post if you’re interested in generating alt text with local llm, specially since he has posted a couple of follow up posts on updating his approach. ...

2025-03-31 · 2 min

Migrating From Gatsby to Hugo

I’ve been using GatsbyJS for publishing my blog posts here, but I wanted to move to another static site generator that is more automation friendly (more on this later). That’s why I decided to migrate this blog to Hugo , which has a very active community and is developed with Go. At first, I was scared of this move, since I don’t know how to code in Go, but to my surprise the whole migration process didn’t require me to write any Go, and everything is handled via yaml, html, and jinja. ...

2024-02-17 · 6 min · Saeed Esmaili