Hi!
I'm Michael Esteban, a software engineer from Brisbane, Australia (where it is currently 2022). I'm passionate about open source and education. I enjoy building small tools, exploring AI, and tinkering with an occasional electronics project.
Latest Posts
- Running Ministral 3B in the browser with WebGPU
A holiday experiment building a private, local image analysis tool.
- Why Anthropic bought the programmers, not just the code
Code generation is becoming a commodity, but human judgment remains more valuable than ever.
- Extracting text from hundreds of government inquiry PDFs
Using ocrmac to extract text from PDF documents on macOS.
- GitHub Comments and Ghosts
GitHub finally lets us comment on unchanged lines in PRs, plus a workaround for phantom notifications that won't go away.
- Uncovering Gemini CLI
A deep dive into how Google's open source coding agent understands codebases and makes safe file edits.
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