App Starter Enter: app-starter — a modern admin boilerplate, with Micro-Frontend (MFE) support baked in. Ylli P, May 19, 2025May 19, 2025 This project exists to save you from reinventing the wheel (or worse — copy-pasting 500 lines of jQuery spaghetti from your 2018 Stack Overflow bookmarks). Let’s take a look at what it is, how it works, and why it might be your new best starting point. What’s in the Box?…
Homelab Home lab Series: What do you see when you poke around in my office Ylli P, March 1, 2025March 2, 2025 I took a few takes at writing this second post on the home lab series, and I wasn’t sure how to approach it. A home lab, by its nature, is an exploratory and experimental environment without any particular set goal, ever-changing and generally a representation of one’s latest interest and…
Movie GPT Model How to train your dragon GPT model Ylli P, February 20, 2025February 21, 2025 In this series, I am going to share part of my pro bono research work with Birkbeck, University of London, School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences in collaboration with School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication. The project idea, as hinted in the title (dragon aside), is to train a…
Queryable Web Research Series: Publishing a report about doctor web Ylli P, February 19, 2025April 16, 2025 As we come to the end of the first phase of doctor web (data retrieval web engine: https://pypi.org/project/dr-web-engine/), with the project being fully open sources and published for end user consumption on the Docker Hub repository and Python Package repository, we want to make sure we can share the motivations…
Queryable Web Ready for release: Making the dr-web-engine public Ylli P, February 13, 2025February 15, 2025 While we continue to add features to our data retrieval web engine (aka dr-web-engine, or shortly doctor web), we are going to explore some of the steps needed to (a) make the new engine available to anyone that wants to use it (b) make the source code available to anyone…
Queryable Web Building a Data Retrieval Web Engine: A Step-by-Step Journey Ylli P, February 2, 2025February 10, 2025 Introduction In the Queryable Web Series, we’ve been exploring how to make web data as accessible and queryable as a database. The ultimate goal is to create tools that allow users to extract semi-structured data from websites using simple, declarative queries—without needing to write custom scripts for every use case….
Research Review Research Series: Exploring Trust and Beyond Ylli P, January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 Welcome to a new blog series focused on research—both my own contributions and influential studies in my field. This series will explore papers I have co-authored, peer-reviewed research, and significant developments that have shaped my work. Through these posts, I aim to break down complex ideas, highlight key insights, and…
Queryable Web Queryable Web Series – Introduction Ylli P, January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 The web is an ocean of information, yet efficiently extracting structured data from it remains a challenge. Traditional approaches like web scraping often rely on brittle, ad-hoc scripts or centralized APIs with limited flexibility. In this new blog series, Queryable Web, I will explore an alternative approach: a structured, queryable…
Homelab Homelab Series – Introduction Ylli P, January 29, 2025January 29, 2025 Welcome to the first post in a new blog series where I’ll be documenting the setup, evolution, and use cases of my home lab. This series aims to provide insight into the hardware and software stack that powers my projects—both ongoing and upcoming—and why I chose this particular approach. Whether…