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I’m switching my blog over to a new hugo theme. It looks slightly nicer now, but migrations are hard and there will be some broken posts. Background When I was at Mozilla back in pre-2014 years I blogged on their corp wordpress setup. It was awful. I hated the WP editor, I hated the WP themes, I hated the WP plugins. I had cool blog posts on there, but they were all deleted when I left....

tldr: GitHub is where most CLI tools live. eget is a tool that makes it easy to download and install their binaries. ...

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I needed a way to do some programming while offline. These days I feel very unproductive without https://chatcraft.org (the best chat UI for programming) and a good LLM to chat with about coding. Chatcraft needed a few small fixes to enable llama.cpp support. Here’s how to run models with llama.cpp with chatcraft.org without internet: Instructions Install and run llama.cpp. Follow https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp instructions for your platform. For mac: # install llama.cpp brew install llama.cpp # start llama.cpp server & auto-download a good small (~6GB) model llama-server --hf-repo "bartowski/Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SPPO-Iter3-GGUF" --hf-file Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SPPO-Iter3-Q6_K.gguf # For more advanced usage I recommend gemma 27b: the smallest smarter-than-gpt-3.5 model (~21GB) # llama-server --hf-repo bartowski/gemma-2-27b-it-GGUF --hf-file gemma-2-27b-it-Q6_K_L.gguf Setup local chatcraft dev env by following the instructions in the chatcraft repo git clone https://github.com/tarasglek/chatcraft.org/ cd chatcraft.org pnpm install pnpm dev ^ will output a development url like http://localhost:5173/, open it. Go to chatcraft settings and add http://localhost:8080/v1 to api providers. Enter a dummy api key. Enjoy!

TLDR: chatcraft.org is now smooth as butter and maximally performant thanks to throttling LLM chat-completion rendering via requestAnimationFrame(). ...