Quest Log

• Tunneling Local LLMs to the Cloud with Tailscale

  5/24/2025

  Hooked up my local LLMs (running with Ollama) to my VPS using Tailscale, letting apps like n8n and other web tools query them over HTTPS. It's been great for cost-effective testing and small-scale workloads before pulling in heavyweight APIs.

  LLMsVPSDev ToolsAutomationn8n

• Ecommerce Image Scraper

  3/28/2025

  Built a custom Python scraper to help a client download their entire product catalog with images, alt text, descriptions, and prices. Here's how I approached it, plus some lessons learned along the way.

  AutomationDev ToolsPython