How Tamil Nadu Government Paved My Computer Dream

Posted on Sat 02 May 2026 in Life • Tagged with life, education, tamilnadu, personal

When I was in 11th grade, my school — a Government Higher Secondary School — got its first color computer.

Even though I was a Bio-Maths student, the school management made a great call: one mandatory computer session every Friday for all 11th and 12th graders.

Our computer teacher had a tradition …


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Exploring NemoClaw — NVIDIA's Local AI Agent Sandbox

Posted on Fri 01 May 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, NVIDIA, NemoClaw, Ollama, Docker

NemoClaw is NVIDIA's agent sandbox that lets you run AI assistants locally using your own inference backend — Ollama, llama.cpp, or cloud providers. It bundles OpenShell as a gateway and OpenClaw as the agent runtime, all orchestrated through Docker containers.

Here's a walkthrough of setting it up from scratch.

Setup …


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macOS System Info Commands You Should Know

Posted on Fri 01 May 2026 in DevTools • Tagged with macos, terminal, cli, sysadmin, commands

Getting your macOS system and disk information from the terminal is straightforward once you know the right commands. Here's a quick reference.

System Info

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType — Displays macOS version, build number, kernel version, boot volume, and uptime. Good for confirming your OS details quickly.

Use like this in your terminal …


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You Have Been Using Claude Wrong — Here Is What It Can Actually Do

Posted on Thu 23 April 2026 in AI Fundamentals • Tagged with claude, anthropic, genai-beginners, ai-tools, llm-workflows, productivity

Introduction

When most beginners open Claude for the first time, they type a question and wait for an answer. That is a perfectly valid starting point. But if that is all you have been doing, you are using a fraction of what is actually there.

Claude is not just a …


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Run Lubuntu Desktop on Docker Using Webtop

Posted on Sun 19 April 2026 in Docker • Tagged with Docker, Lubuntu, Linux, Webtop, Container

TLDR;

GitHub Token

To pull container images from GitHub's registry, you need a Personal Access Token (PAT).

  1. Go to GitHub Token Settings
  2. Click Generate new token (classic)
  3. Give it a descriptive name and set an expiry
  4. Under scopes, check read:packages
  5. Click Generate token and copy it right away — you …

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Using Free Cloud-Based LLMs via Ollama on Ubuntu

Posted on Sun 19 April 2026 in GenAI Engineering • Tagged with ollama, llm, ubuntu, cloud-llm, local-ai, kactii, linux


Ollama is a lightweight, open-source LLM runner. Its :cloud model suffix lets you route prompts to free-tier hosted models — no GPU, no paid API key required. Useful for learning, prototyping, and small projects on modest hardware.

This post covers the full Ubuntu setup: manual install, service startup, chatting with Kimi …


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Claude Code Project Structure — Every File and Folder Explained

Posted on Sat 18 April 2026 in Engineering • Tagged with claude-code, agentic-engineering, llm-tooling, project-structure

Most Claude Code projects start with a CLAUDE.md and nothing else. Here is the full structure that turns Claude from a coding assistant into an engineering partner.

The complete directory

your-project/
├── CLAUDE.md
├── CLAUDE.local.md
├── mcp.json
└── claude/
    ├── settings.json
    ├── rules/
    │   ├── code-style.md
    │   ├── testing.md
    │   └── api-conventions.md
    ├── commands …

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LLM Inference Optimization: What Actually Makes Your Model Fast

Posted on Sat 18 April 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with LLM, Inference, Optimization, Quantization, KV Cache, Speculative Decoding, Flash Attention

When you send a prompt to an LLM, three layers shape how fast you get a response: the hardware (GPUs, TPUs, LPUs), the model size and architecture, and the inference engine strategies sitting on top. Most of the latency battle is fought at that third layer — and the core problem …


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PromptTemplate Explained for 10 year old

Posted on Fri 17 April 2026 in GenAI Basics • Tagged with langchain, prompt-engineering, beginner, kactii

PromptTemplate is one of those ideas that sounds technical but is actually something you already understand from everyday life. Here are three ways to see it clearly.

Cookie Cutter 🍪

The Shape — A star-shaped cookie cutter that never changes. You press it into any dough and get the same star, every …


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Six Terms You Must Know Before Building Agentic AI Systems

Posted on Fri 17 April 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with Agentic AI, MCP, RAG, Multi-Agent, Memory, Agent Architecture

If you are shipping agentic systems in 2026 and these six terms are fuzzy, you are building on sand. This is the foundational vocabulary — not hype, not vendor marketing, just the concepts that actually show up when you are designing, debugging, or scaling an agent pipeline.

The Six Terms

Model …


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