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nickdodd
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About nickdodd
Developer and systems builder for 20+ years. My background spans software, servers, networking, infrastructure, and a lot of real hardware. Founder of Tensioncore™ and creator of LLM Controller CE, an open-source, hardware-first platform for local AI. Based in British Columbia, Canada.
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This may be the worst take, but is one of my main sources of news. I'll follow a ton of people and businesses/brands in a specific niche or sector and so my following feed will usu…
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I just released a project I've been working on for 16 months: LLM Controller CE https://github.com/tensioncore/llm-controller-ce It's a hardware first AI inferencing platform built…
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Scan for topics that interest me when deciding what to interact with. Topics about engagement are interesting, since there is definitely something very specific about posts that ma…
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It's definitely a chore to keep up. I work a full time job in manufacturing, run my own VPS hosting business from my house and a salon on the side too. Burnout is my middle name, e…