AWS ECS Express Mode is a bit naff
Why I had to ditch AWS's flagship way to 'easily' deploy containers
Dan Clayton's Blog
A simple software blog.
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Docker build caching in CI (for multi-stage builds)
How and why to set up registry build caching in CI, with a GitLab example
How Does Ollama's Structured Outputs Work?
Digging into what Ollama is doing under the hood to produce structured outputs
Relevant XKCD? - Testing Multimodal Retrieval
Embedding XKCDs with nomic-embed-vision-v1.5 (and retrieving them with DuckDB)
Preventing Overlapping Data in PostgreSQL - What Goes Into an Exclusion Constraint
How can you prevent overlapping date ranges? Exclusion constraints do it at the database layer
Quick CSV to SQLite with DuckDB
Quickly creating SQLite databases with DuckDB, without writing schemas
Psycopg Database Connections with FastAPI
Sharing database connections between requests with FastAPI
Refactoring list logic using Python sets
Replacing loops and ifs with Python sets for a speedup and better readability.
Starting a new Python project - an opinionated starter guide
An opinionated mini-guide to setup a new Python project from scratch with *most* of the tooling you will need.