Use a gaming PC as a Google Gemma 4 LLM server
I can use my gaming rig (with an RTX 5070 Ti) as a dedicated local LLM server for AI-assisted coding.
SG Barker
Hi I'm Steve, a developer from London, UK. I'm currently Exec Director of Technology at Steplab helping schools become their best.
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Import your old MP3 music collection into your Spotify library, and stream it anywhere
This is a guide for importing music files into Spotify, or any of the other major music streaming services. To be clear, I'm talking about reading your MP3s, and constructing a playlist in Spotify, not streaming the actual files themselves.
Donation of the month: Ghost
For September, I'd like to highlight Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Running Flower on AWS ECS for Celery Monitoring
A guide for running Flower for Celery in production, using AWS ECS.
Donation of the month: Coolify. Open source Vercel alternative
August's donation is for Coolify, which is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.
Open source of the month: peewee ORM - A small, expressive Python ORM.
Peewee is a lightweight and straightforward ORM that is both easy to learn and intuitive to use. It features a small set of expressive concepts, which simplifies the learning curve without sacrificing functionality.
Donation of the month: Espanso, A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander
Each month for the next 6(?) months I'll showcase and donate to a software project that I've found really useful. For June I've chosen Espanso , an open source text expander tool that's available on MacOS, Linux and Windows. I found Espanso when
WhatsApp as a note-taking app
For short form note taking, WhatsApp is actually the best option I've found. It's fast, secure, available on all my devices, synchronised, searchable and free.
How to host a highly scalable ghost publication for free
TL;DR: Spin up a local container running Ghost, crawl the frontend to generate a static site, and upload to a free static host. While there's quite a few options for statically hosting written content for free, most of these involve using markdown as your writing interface. While
Photos of North Korea
I spent some time in North Korea ( DPRK ), via a specialist travel agency. I didn't get as many good photos as I would have liked, but below are some of the better ones. Pyongyang with "traffic lady" DMZ and painting Various signs and sources of kitsch
A Lockdown Project: My Ideal Fudge Recipe
The only difficult thing about making delicious fudge is how long and at what temperature to cook it for.
How we reduced our failed payment rate by 92%
Originally posted on Gousto Engineering & Data Most Gousto customers choose to get their recipe boxes on a subscription basis: every week they choose their recipes from our menu, and we pick, pack and deliver them to their door. To give customers as much flexibility as possible, we let customers
Why Ghost?
Back in the day I used WordPress quite a bit. It had many appealing qualities - it was easy to host, very extendable and had a huge community of users. So huge that even in 2020, WordPress runs over 33% of all websites. I used WordPress for all kinds of
Moscow Mule Twist
My take on the simple Moscow Mule cocktail. I use a quince infused vodka which gives a unique twist. I picked up the quince vodka from Szambelan, a vodka producer in Krakow - but you can infuse your own or buy some online too. If you're adding extra
Zenit 12XP Photos With Helios 44M-4
As I talked about in my Helios 44M-4 post, I bought a 1980s Zenit camera and lens kit, mainly to fit the lens to my Fuji X camera. But I also put a film in the Zenit to have a play around with it... I'm experienced with film