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Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
I was toying around with a refactor the other day that would have taken me ages by hand as it involved 100s of files. I wanted to rename every instance of...
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"I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems."
I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems. What do I mean by that? Well, think about version control systems before the cryptographic-DAG systems, and especially Git, came along. Everyone (everyone you'd want to work with, at least) agreed that a version control system was…
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Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
Published: 20-11-2025 22:34 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
Over the past month I’ve been exploring the rapidly evolving world of Large Language Models (LLM). It’s now accessible enough to run a LLM on a Raspberry Pi smarter than the original ChatGPT (November 2022). A modest desktop or laptop supports even smarter AI. It’s also private, offline, unlimited, and…
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How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (2016)
It's difficult to get the Windows Console to display Unicode characters, so here's a C++ WinForms program that will display the arguments in a TextBox.
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The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor
One of the most common reasons for opening Activity Monitor is to check the % CPU of processes that might be running out of control. How accurate are those figures, though, and should you believe t…
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Everything You Already Know About SEO
The basics of SEO are stupidly simple; and it seems like everyone knows – or at least pretends to know – those basics. Still I get asked about SEO pretty often. I don’t consider myself an expert, but I’ll share what I know, and hopefully it will help some people. I’ll be talking Google-centrically because
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SirTunnel, a personal ngrok alternative
From time to time I need to expose a development web site or web service to the world. In the past, I’ve used ngrok for that, and of course long ago I built ReverseHTTP which is somewhere in the same ballpark, but I recently got fed up with the state of affairs and decided to see whether there was something simple I…
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There oughta be a Blender plugin to animate growth
I have created a Blender plugin that takes an image texture with some structure and generates an animation of how this structure grows. To be more precise, it creates a non-color data image with the animation information that can be used in a shader. Since animations are hard to describe in words or individual images…
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First personal search engine prototype
I've implemented a first prototype of my personal search engine which I will abbreviate as "pse" from here on out. I implemented it using three Bash scripts relying on sqlite3 , wget and PageFind to do the heavy lifting.
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Peanut Butter Jellyfin Time
“But what is best is what we saved for last. The one sure-fire thing to make your best day ever the best day ever!" — SpongeBob, ‘Jellyfishing’
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Will VBA Die? (2019)
The questioning of the VBA languages lifespan seems to be a question that is on everyone’s mind. Let’s explore why so many people utilize this language, Microsoft’s current thinking on it’s uses, and when it will ultimately retire from being used.
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My favorite keyboards
When I started using computers, we had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at home and a nano-reseau of Thomson MO5 s at elementary school. I distinctly remember how unpleasant it was to type with them. These must have been the worst keyboards I ever used [1] . Ever since, I have paid close attention to the keyboards I use. Here…
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cp: -r or -R?
A question like this recently came up again. I once tried to find an answer, but only posted it in some "forum" a decade ago, and I think it's worth saving this little bit of trivia from digital nirvana.
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Note-taking isn't rocket science
I swear some people out there be building their note-taking system like NASA engineers building the next rocket to send us to the next habitable Earth. No...
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Podman in Linux
Podman is the new cool kid on the block. Podman is a deamonless container(OCI) engine for Linux. It's the natural open-source Docker replac...
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Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy
Making it quicker and simpler to run a macOS VM: with Vimy all you need do is double-click its bundle, and the VM runs using its previous settings.
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Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.
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Make: Theory and Practice
make is a widely used and valuable development tool. It's a "build" tool: it builds programs and documentation according to a "recipe". It could really be used for anything where someone edits some files, and then runs a series of processing steps to generate some other form from the edited files. For the most part…
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