About

the KodeLab is a personal notebook on AI, open-source LLMs, developer tooling, and the occasional weekend project. Expect hands-on notes, honest opinions, and the kind of things I wish I had read before diving in myself.

About the author

I’m Kyle, a software engineer based in Taiwan. Over roughly ten years in the field, I’ve worked both as an independent contractor and on in-house teams, across software design and development.

A lot of what I learned came from tutorials that people generously shared online, and writing this site is one way I try to pay that forward. I’ve been publishing technical writing since 2022; the KodeLab is the international edition, written in English and Japanese.

These days the AI era makes absorbing the classics easier than ever, so my writing has gradually shifted from beginner tutorials toward notes on new products, fresh ideas, and how they actually hold up when you sit down and try them.

Topics covered

• Local LLMs and AI tooling — Ollama, Gemma, Claude, and the day-to-day reality of using these models for real work.
• Developer environments — macOS, Linux, terminal workflows, SSH, and the small-but-painful problems that eat up afternoons.
• Java and the JVM — a long-running interest from years of in-house work, with notes on language evolution and JDK distributions.
• Web infrastructure — Nginx, HTTP edge cases, and other things that come up when shipping a web product.

Editorial approach

Every post on the KodeLab is written by a human — me — based on first-hand experience: software I’ve installed, errors I’ve actually hit, configurations I’ve tested. Code samples are kept minimal and focused, just enough to reproduce the result without padding the article.

When a topic is already covered well in official documentation or a Stack Overflow answer, I’ll link there rather than rephrase it. The goal is to be the post I wish I had found — not the longest one on the topic.

The site has no sponsored content, no affiliate links, and no AI-generated filler. Display advertising via Google AdSense is the only commercial element, and it has no influence on what I choose to write about.

Contact

If you spot a mistake, want to suggest a topic, or just want to say hello:

Email: [email protected]