Techalicious Academy
A static archive of practical tutorials from the Toronto Techalicious Meetup. AI tools, system admin, regex, automation. No fluff, just working knowledge.
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Build Your Own Chatbot with Magidonia-24B
Build a companion chatbot using Magidonia-24B-v4.3, the undisputed local roleplay king. Learn why this model wins, how to configure it, and how to craft characters that stay in voice. Everything runs on your hardware.
Running OpenClaw Locally with Ollama on Apple Silicon
Set up a fully private, zero-cost AI assistant that never sends a byte off your machine. Covers Ollama installation, model selection, OpenClaw configuration, security hardening after the ClawHavoc supply chain attack, and performance tuning for Apple Silicon. User discretion advised.
Advanced Regular Expressions (PCRE)
Go beyond the basics with PCRE pattern matching. Master lookaheads, lookbehinds, named capture groups, regex subroutines, POSIX classes, and every modifier. Learn to build patterns that actually work in the real world, and see how regex fits into modern AI workflows.
OpenWebUI - Your Local ChatGPT
Set up a polished ChatGPT-like interface that runs entirely on your Mac. Install OpenWebUI with Docker, connect it to Ollama, create custom AI agents with system directives and tuned parameters, and explore vision models. No cloud, no subscriptions, no one watching your conversations.
Claude Code + Local Ollama Tutorial
Run Anthropic's agentic coding CLI with your own local models. No cloud dependency, no API costs. Learn to configure Claude Code with Ollama, understand context limits, and become a power user of terminal-based AI coding.
AI Companion Creation Tutorial
Build your own AI companion using local LLMs. Learn character design, prompt engineering for consistent personalities, and how to create engaging conversational AI that runs entirely on your hardware.
Regex Therapy: Rename / Ack / Perl CLI
Learn regular expressions through practical command-line tools. Master ack for searching, rename for bulk file operations, and Perl one-liners for text transformation. Same syntax across all three tools. No theory dumps, just patterns you can use today.
Local Vision LLM Content Moderation
Build an automated image review pipeline using local vision models. Learn to send images to Ollama, get structured responses, and make pass/fail decisions with pattern matching. All running on your own hardware, no cloud required.
Local Stable Diffusion
Run AI image generation on your own hardware using AUTOMATIC1111. Covers installation on Mac and Linux, SDXL models, Danbooru tagging system, prompt engineering with emphasis weighting, and practical examples for anime and western comic styles.