Colin Mietka
Data & AI Engineer

The AI field is moving (too) fast. At home or at work, I try to follow the trends or recommandations and evaluate them, adopting new tools and workflows when I judge them worthy. Here is my journey away from Ollama and Continue and into llama.cpp and Pi.

A while back, I decided to learn some JavaScript to go along my improvements on the FastAPI backend side. I started a few things, never finished. But trecently I got back into it and the result are worth sharing.

It seems everyone building a homelab goes through this phase. This is my take on homelab automation, extensively using gitlab CI/CD powers and Renovate bot.

Agentic AI and MCP are the new thing in 2025. I figured it's time to try them out and share the results. Witness the rise of my AI Agent, with Web Search, Data Analysis and Knowledge Graph enhanced RAG.

AI assistants are now commonly used for various tasks, powered by advanced machine learning models. While cloud-based services is the go to for most people, concerns over data privacy have led me to explore self-hosting as a cost-effective alternative.

With nowadays smartphone, you can do anything. And the two main systems reign supreme on the market. But if you value your privacy, another path is possible. It is called e/OS/. It's open source, it's free, and it doesn't spy on you. Let's see what it is and how to finally switch your phone to it !