At work I have to deal with dozens of AWS accounts spread across many organizations. I often have to ssm into an instance to debug and fix issues. It's obviously not ideal but that's where we are at a work :/. These .bashrc snippets help me find the instance I'm looking …
Everyone knows the classic "hello world" program. When picking up a new programming language it's the first program you write because it's small and lets you know if you installed the toolchain correctly. When you want to test your knowledge on a real program (with loops, branches, flags, etc) it's …
Configuring bash history to do the right thing and just save every command as it's entered.
Using Incus containers for fast local Ansible playbook development and testing.
Everything I've learned building with LLMs (As of late 2024).
Using Mistral 7B for local function calling with dockerized vLLM.
Comparing two approaches to extracting transaction data from PDF bank statements. One using a handwritten regex parser and one using LLM structured data extraction.
Building a simple chat app using Quart, HTMX, and Server Sent Events.
Notes on building machine vision applications in industrial settings
A quick guide to using GenICam cameras with Aravis and Gstreamer.
I had a client approach me with an interesting problem. The client was a dog daycare/boarding facility and the SaaS platform they used for managing customers and scheduling also had an interesting image upload and tagging feature. They would take a bunch of photos of the dogs each day …
Clifton Gorge is a wonderful nature preserve around 50 miles west Columbus, OH. These photos and videos were taken on 2017-11-06 . This date even made the top 10 on the recent crests page at one of the downstream stations. To monitor the water level go to waterservices.usgs.gov or …