Tue Dec 31
Why even consider templating Dockerfiles? Dockerfiles revolutionized the industry with their simplicity. Each instruction creates a new layer in the image, which is automatically cached. This process integrates well with SCM, where you “commit” the results of one stage and move forward with other changes. The...
2024 was a hard year, reading wise. As I noted in last year’s round-up, in September 2023 I stopped reading. J did his usual and got me some really wonderfully fascinating looking books for Christmas, and I started one of them soon after, and it took me until the end of May to finish it. But then — also in late May...
With just a few hours before 2025 arrives, it's safe to assume that this is going to be the last post of 2024. Considering the current state of the world, wishing you a happy year seems silly. Stay safe, take care of yourself and your loved ones, and let's hope that we all make it through 2025 unscathed.
I've added a new feature to Exotext which converts YouTube links into embeds (when a link is on its own line and surrounded by newlines). To test things out, here are some cool YouTube videos I've watched this month.
After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I do one more race this year?
TL;DR: Get LLMs to do things from Emacs, with gptel and your help. A short one today, without the usual flourishes. gptel is a large language model (LLM) client for Emacs. At its core is a wrapper around the HTTP APIs provided by all LLM providers, including the smaller language models you can run locally on your...
I'm not very good at organizing, especially in meat space. In the past year I've been spending some time to improve on this issue! The results are a nicely organized electronics work station (more later) and an ever improving digital organization system. I've tried everything from Evernote to OneNote for …
While most are waiting for today (Happy New Year) to come around to hit the gym, to start eating better, to start that business, or change their lives in one of the thousand stereotypical ways people start each new year, know that every day could have been that start. Every moment could have been that start. And...
Yesterday we got home from 12 days on the coast. It has been hot and dry while we were away. A dust storm had left the cracked old swimming pool with an orange tidemark. Many of our plants had turned crispy with lack of water and burning heat. The dog and cat survived but both seemed relieved to see us. I watered my...
No soy entusiasta de los propósitos y las resoluciones (¿quién dice esto? ¿Es una mala traducción) de año nuevo. Muchas veces nos ponemos propósitos que son complicados de cumplir o que no estamos dispuestos a llevar a cabo, y eso puede terminar frustrándonos. Lo que sí me gusta hacer es hacer una pequeña reflexión...
As we bring in a new year and say goodbye to yet another one, I thought it would be nice to do a challenge. I haven’t been good at these in the past though. A friend of The AllthingsTech.social community and on Mastodon, Andrew Melder, created this photo challenge so I am hoping I can get some help to complete it....
There are plenty of high-quality full length concerts available on youtube. It only recenlty occurred to me that I could just turn these into my own bootleg live albums. Step 1: Manifest file Make a new text file that follows this template. artist: CHVRCHES album: Live at Glastonbury 2016 date: 2016 source:...
I just hit the publish button on a new story all about technology, e-bikes, and the future. Here, look: https://robinrendle.com/stories/this-glorious-machine/ I got an e-bike about a year ago and made a draft of this story immediately. But boy oh boy did this thing take a long while to get into a readable state. All...