Building a Self-Hosted AI Application to Search Books
Introduction Half a year ago, I started working in a different company. I was a bit stagnant on the previous one for different reasons, and ended up changing sector. Looking back, it was an intelligent choice, and quickly adapted to the new environment. I started doing AI-agent development and integrations, and I genuinely enjoyed the learning process. And what really piqued my interest was how AI was able to retrieve customized results there weren’t in the training data: Retrieval-augmented generation. ...
From Prototype to Persistent Service: Self-hosting Suwayomi with Docker Compose on a Linux Server (Part 2)
The preamble A while ago I wrote an article that explained how tired I was of switching manga websites every time one is taken down, and how hard it was to track new releases and updates. I actually used it for a while, and I encountered some issues; Although the overall experience was pleasant, there were some things I wanted to improve. So, I’ve decided to write this follow-up article. ...
Self-hosting a Suwayomi Manga Reader Instance with Podman
The preamble I like to read mystery manga as a hobby, and I have found myself in a point that I’ve read everything mainstream. The only thing left for me to do is to resort to more niche titles, such as the ones that are fan translated and never left Japan. And let’s be honest, we all know how scanlation sites are. They are a mixed bag of scraped content from official sources, fan translations, scans taken directly from magazines in the eighties by publishers that went out of business in the nineties, and yes, a lot of porn. ...