gotofritzMy initial excitement for Meta’s SAM Audio model is slowly fizzling out.
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2026-01-01-can-sam-audio-be-used-to-replace-demucs/
Using jot and date to generate random git branch names / commit messages
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2025-12-25-creating-a-random-git-branch-or-commit-on-the-cli/
I finally managed to install that pesky SAM-audio LLM from Meta on my Mac laptop.
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2025-12-20-playing-with-the-sam-audio-model-on-my-m1-macbook/
Playing With the SAM-Audio Model on My M1 MacBook
Meta recently released [SAM-Audio](https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/our-new-sam-audio-model-transforms-audio-editing/), an exciting new audio LLM capable of separating sounds from complex mixtures using text or visual prompts. Like many research models, it isn't installable out of the box for macOS users. To get it running on my M1 Mac was a bit of an adventure, but I managed in the end.
> The command itself is fairly simple - a wrapper for a Hugo command. The more complicated part is the ffmpeg command that generates a glitchy preview image from one of my videos.
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2025-12-14-utility-to-create-a-new-blog-post-in-hugo-with-glitch-image/
Started using Continue and Ollama for coding with a local #llm. Initially slow, but after switching to GLM4 it's now a worthy alternative to Cursor at no cost and without privacy concerns.
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2025-09-28-using-continue-and-ollama-locally/
Using Continue and Ollama Locally, for free
I have started using [Continue](https://docs.continue.dev/) with [Ollama](https://ollama.com/) to have a local llm assist my coding. Initially it was too slow to be of real use, but since adopting [GLM4](https://ollama.com/library/glm4), it now rivals [Cursor](https://cursor.com/) in performance.
I had some trouble making the Code spell checker VSCode plugin in a project using workspaces
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2025-08-18-cspell-for-vscode-workspaces/
The template is available at github.com/gotofritz/copier-python-template should you want to fork it and try it out. Just make sure you replace all occurrences of “gotofritz” from your fork.
https://gotofritz.net/blog/2025-08-10-copier-python-template-with-uv/
