About this archive

Techalicious Academy was the tutorial arm of the Techalicious Meetup, a Toronto gathering of builders, sysadmins, and curious humans getting hands-on with whatever was interesting that week. AI tools, regex, local LLMs, system administration, automation.

It's frozen now, on purpose. 9 tutorials, 117 chapters total, published between 2025-12-11 and 2026-03-19. They stay here as a reference. New stuff is being written somewhere better: techalicious.club.

Why an archive?

The Academy did its job. We needed somewhere to put the tutorials so people could find them later, and a static Neocities site fit the brief. As the meetup grew and the kinds of things we wanted to publish grew with it (events, project showcases, longer-form writing, community pages), a flat directory of tutorials stopped being the right shape.

So instead of forcing the Academy to become something it wasn't, we're leaving it as it is. A clean, browsable snapshot of the early tutorials. Everything still works. Every link still resolves.

What's at techalicious.club?

The new site is where the meetup actually lives now: upcoming events, current tutorials, project pages, and a real home for the community. If you came here for what's happening next, that's where to go.

What's in the archive?

9 tutorials covering local AI stacks (Ollama, Open WebUI, Stable Diffusion, Claude Code), regular expressions, content moderation with vision models, building chatbots locally, and the kind of system administration that doesn't get written down anywhere else.

Browse them from the tutorial grid on the home page. They're ordered newest first.

            Tutorials were accurate when published. Tech moves fast. Version numbers, install paths, and APIs may have drifted. Treat them as a starting point and a record of what worked at the time. If something looks off, the meetup is the right place to ask.
        

Credits

Tutorials written by Wildcard Wizard and friends from the meetup. Hosted on Neocities.

For everything new: techalicious.club →