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egonschiele commented on Ollama's new app   ollama.com/blog/new-app... · Posted by u/BUFU
apitman · a month ago
I've been on something of a quest to find a really good chat interface for LLMs.

Most import feature for me is that I want to be able to chat with local models, remote models on my other machines, and cloud models (OpenAI API compatible). Anything that makes it easier to switch between models or query them simultaneously is important.

Here's what I've learned so far:

* Msty - my current favorite. Can do true simultaneous requests to multiple models. Nice aesthetic. Sadly not open source. Have had some freezing issues on Linux.

* Jan.ai - Can't make requests to multiple models simultaneously

* LM Studio - Not open source. Doesn't support remote/cloud models (maybe there's a plugin?)

* GPT4All - Was getting weird JSON errors with openrouter models. Have to explicitly switch between models, even if you're trying to use them from different chats.

Still to try: Librechat, Open WebUI, AnythingLLM, koboldcpp.

Would love to hear any other suggestions.

egonschiele · a month ago
Build your own! It's a great way to learn, keeps you interested in the latest developments. Plus you get to try out cool UX experiments and see what works. I built my own interface back in 2023 and have been slowly adding to it since. I added local models via MLX last month. I'm surprised more devs aren't rolling their own interface, they are easy to make and you learn a lot.
egonschiele commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
egonschiele · a month ago
I just wrote a post about an interesting color debate in the art community:

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/a-colorful-controversy

egonschiele commented on Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets   librari.io/... · Posted by u/hmkoyan
egonschiele · a month ago
This is awesome. Exactly the sort of thing I like to see on HN: someone going deep on a niche they really care about. The app is more polished than I expected.

The design is nice and clean. I really appreciate dark mode as well, though some of the text on this page, for example https://app.librari.io/subscription looks like it needs to be tweaked for dark mode.

I would genuinely use this, as I don't always like the public aspect of Goodreads, but it would depend on your pricing structure and privacy policy.

Feature request: bulk import of books.

egonschiele commented on uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust   github.com/astral-sh/uv... · Posted by u/chirau
egonschiele · 2 months ago
uv has become essential for me. conda and virtualenv never worked smoothly for me, but uv was easy and "just worked" from day 1.
egonschiele commented on How do you prototype a nice language?   kevinlynagh.com/newslette... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
egonschiele · 3 months ago
I wrote a parser combinator library for TypeScript that I have been having a lot of fun with [1]. It has limitations, I wouldn't use it to write a full language programming language like Gleam, but for "language-ish projects", parser combinators can be lovely to use. I used it to build a typed version of Mustache [2].

> Rather, I’m after a particular kind of software hygge: Loads instantly, doesn’t crash, and fits nicely in the hand.

The author is talking about the language, but this is what parser combinators feel like to me, and could be another option. Tarsec is probably the most fun side project I have built in a while.

[1] https://github.com/egonSchiele/tarsec

[2] https://github.com/egonSchiele/typestache

egonschiele commented on An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs   ducktyped.org/p/why-is-it... · Posted by u/egonschiele
sceadu · 3 months ago
are you planning on turning this into a book also? if so I'd be interested. the blog posts were very helpful :)
egonschiele · 3 months ago
I've been thinking about it! Maybe a book that covers the basics of putting an app up on AWS... networking, covering the different options such as EC2, ECS, and fargate, plus a bit about load balancers and IAM.
egonschiele commented on An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs   ducktyped.org/p/why-is-it... · Posted by u/egonschiele
egonschiele · 3 months ago
Hey everyone, I'm the author. Let me know if you have any questions!
egonschiele commented on An illustrated guide to Amazon VPCs   ducktyped.org/p/why-is-it... · Posted by u/egonschiele
MehdiHK · 3 months ago
Not related to VPC, but I'm a big fan of the author. Loved his book "Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People" when it came out a few years ago. If you know anyone struggling with common data structures and algorithms, this book can make it fun for them.
egonschiele · 3 months ago
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the book!! That was a fun project, and I learned a lot while writing it.

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