https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/Build notes on my projects.https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/journal/2026-09-22-web-search-without-an-api-key/https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/journal/2026-09-22-web-search-without-an-api-key/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTBing's API is gone and Brave's free tier ended, so my assistant now searches through a SearXNG instance running in Docker on my own machine.https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/journal/2026-09-21-tool-calling-phi-vs-qwen/https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/journal/2026-09-21-tool-calling-phi-vs-qwen/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPhi-3.5 has no built-in tool calling, so I had to fake it with prompts. Qwen2.5-3B has it natively, and the difference was 0 out of 6 against 6 out of 6.https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/journal/2026-08-29-a-local-model-on-4gb/https://vigneshwararaj.raidder.xyz/journal/2026-08-29-a-local-model-on-4gb/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTStep one of my local assistant. A 3.8B model, 4-bit quantisation, and a terminal chat loop that streams its answer.