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Matt W Marshall

2026


A Personalized LLM Benchmark

·2 mins
A custom 26-test benchmark across seven categories, run on my home AI box to see which local LLM actually wins.

2023


Flow diagram of a personal knowledge management system: ephemeral and planning notes feed Notes and a Pocket Journal, routed by a Todo decision into Reminders or future work; continuous notes route through a Journal decision into Journal or Notion; reference, research and works feed DEVONthink.

New PKM Setup

·6 mins
Consolidating 14+ note-taking and knowledge tools into one streamlined system for my second brain.

Switching to Hugo From Jekyll

·2 mins
I broke the Jekyll site while tweaking it, so I moved the whole blog to Hugo. It was refreshingly easy.

2022


Flowchart of the blog publishing pipeline: write content in Markdown, commit to GitHub, GitHub CI/CD, build site with Jekyll, build and push container to DOCR, then a future automated process to update the live site.

GitHub Container CI/CD

·2 mins
Automating the blog: a GitHub Action that builds the site and ships a container to a registry.

Moving to Jekyll

·1 min
Leaving WordPress for a static site — finding the Chirpy theme and a Kubernetes-friendly workflow.

Amazon Purchase Classifier

·1 min
A small tool that turns Amazon’s messy order reports into categorized transactions for Quicken.

2019


A band of pale rounded stones along a lakeshore below a granite cliff, cliff and stones mirrored in perfectly still water.

Rocks on the Lake

·1 min
A landscape from a trip up to Prescott, AZ — rocks reflecting on the water, headed for a glass print.