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How I Passed All Three CIBD Diploma in Distilling Modules in One Sitting, on a Homelab and a Go Pipeline September 16, 2026

A software engineer who makes whisky in his basement scraped the CIBD Diploma in Distilling course, turned it into 26 hours of audiobooks and a retrieval-practice drill on a single local GPU, and passed all three modules in one June. The timeline, the numbers, the bugs, and what generalizes.

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Running a Local Agentic Dev Setup on a Single Machine July 14, 2026

How I wired up a local LLM stack — llama-server, quantization for a 5090, llama-swap, and the real tradeoffs.

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A Local LLM Exam Drill System — Textbook to Audiobook to Retrieval Practice July 14, 2026

How I turned a syllabus into audiobooks, then built a spaced-repetition exam coach — all on a local GPU, with multi-phase pipelines, different personas per stage, and RAG grounding.

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