Zohaib Rauf

Struggling to finish side projects due to limited time? In my latest blog post, I share how I improved my productivity using AI tools like LLMs and Cursor IDE. Learn to refine specs, bootstrap code, and iterate effectively to rapidly build and deploy your projects—even with a busy schedule.

Discover how to securely manage secrets in NixOS Home Manager using SOPS and sops-nix. Learn to set up Age encryption, create encrypted secret files, integrate SOPS with NixOS, and access secrets as environment variables. Perfect for maintaining secure, declarative NixOS configurations.

Learn how to install a custom Hugging Face GGUF model using Ollama, enabling you to try out the latest LLM models locally. This guide covers downloading the model, creating a Modelfile, and setting up the model in Ollama and Open-WebUI.

Explore OpenWebUI's Pipelines: extend your self-hosted LLM interface. Learn to create custom pipelines, from filters to tools. Intercept LLM interactions, implement function-calling, and integrate new providers. Enhance AI workflows or build RAG systems with this guide to OpenWebUI's extensibility.

Discover how to create a synthetic dataset, select the right metrics for evaluation, and fine-tune your model using LoRA for a narrow scenario. Plus, learn how to serve your model efficiently using LLaMa.cpp on Mac/Linux.

Learn how to use Python with Supabase for web development for all your AI/LLM backend needs. Create a secure Python service that validates JWT tokens from Supabase and integrates with Next.js.

Onboarding remote Software Engineers can be challenging. Here are some suggestions from my experience of onboarding multiple engineers remotely to make them become part of team.

I recently built findvaccinefor.me [https://findvaccinefor.me] which gets data from WA state sources such as vaccinelocator.doh.wa.gov [http://vaccinelocator.doh.wa.gov] and prepmod.doh.wa.gov [http://prepmod.doh.wa.gov] and presents it in a more convenient way (IMO). I built this over few

Introduction on debugging in Python Jupyter notebooks with examples in Google Colab using ipdb.