Posts

2026

• Writing and Reviewing Agent Skills - Common Pitfalls 4 Jul
• Measuring Model Quantisation Quality with KL Divergence 28 Apr
• New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays 29 Mar
• The advice I find myself repeating every time someone asks how to get started with Claude Code 5 Mar
• Patching NVIDIA's driver and vLLM to enable P2P on consumer GPUs 25 Feb

2025

• The Role Bridging Problem 20 Nov
• Stop Polluting Context - Let Users Disable Individual MCP Tools 26 Aug
• MCP DevTools 18 Aug
• Agentic Coding Adoption Cost Cycle 16 Jul
• Agentic Coding Workflow & Cline Demo 20 Jun
• Vibe Coding vs Agentic Coding 6 Jun
• My Plan, Document, Act, Review flow for Agentic Software Development 28 Apr
• LLM Sampling Parameters Guide 25 Apr
• Getting Started with Agentic Systems - Developer Learning Paths 16 Apr
• The Cost of Agentic Coding 3 Apr
• The Democratisation Paradox: What History Teaches Us About AI 23 Mar
• The effects of prompt caching on Agentic coding 20 Mar
• Agentic Coding - Live Demo / Brownbag 7 Feb

2024

• Bringing K/V Context Quantisation to Ollama 4 Dec
• Will AI Take My Job? 29 Nov
• Generating Diagrams with with AI / LLMs 8 Oct
• Ingest: Streamlining Content Preparation for LLMs 29 Jul
• LLM Parameter Playground 20 Jul
• Code, Chaos, and Copilots (AI/LLM Talk July 2024) 18 Jul
• Understanding AI/LLM Quantisation Through Interactive Visualisations 17 Jul
• Rating AI Tools 3 Jul
• Gollama: Ollama Model Manager 1 Jun
• Confuddlement: Download Confluence Spaces as Markdown, Summarise with Ollama 23 May
• NVApi - Nvidia GPU Monitoring API 18 May
• SuperPrompter - Supercharge your text prompts for AI/LLM image generation 22 Mar
• Llamalink - Ollama to LM Studio LLM Model Linker 21 Mar

2023

• Open source, locally hosted AI powered Siri replacement 20 Nov
• Fun with Makefiles - Dynamic Menu Generation 14 Nov
• MBA Washing 13 Nov
• SDXL LoRA Training 30 Oct
• Fixing AMD CPU Scaling on Fedora 9 Jul
• Defaulting git clone to shallow (depth=1) 29 May
• How likely would you be to block a company from asking you to rate everything they do? 26 May
• Escaping the Time Trap: Why Estimating Effort, Not Time, Leads to Greater Success 28 Apr
• Introduction to AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) 26 Jan
• Open Budgeting - Subscriptions & Licences 5 Jan

2022

• Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency 31 Dec
• Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part Two 18 Nov
• Github Not-So-Reusable Actions 6 Nov
• YAML Anchors and Aliases 6 Nov
• Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part One 6 Nov
• Encourage Your Peers To Contribute To Open Source 30 Oct
• Making Work Visible - Avoid DMs 20 Oct
• The Best Of - 2022 Edition 19 Oct
• It's 2022 and we're (still) not deploying enough 23 Aug
• DALL·E 2 - Selected works 8 Jul
• Beginner Harmonica Practice Exercises 13 Jun
• Firefox Addons for 2022 17 May

2021

• Goodbye Evernote, Hello Bear 22 Jul
• Rancilio Silvia Upgrade 11 Jul

2020

• DevOps Team Charter 18 Nov
• Ferrari F12 Berlinetta 8 Nov
• The Best Of - 2020 Edition 10 Oct
• Rest in Peace Jimothy 8 Oct

2019

• Camels Dressed As Unicorns 8 Aug
• Looking For New Opportunities 6 Aug
• Leaving Infoxchange 29 Jun
• Goodbye XenSever - Hello XCP-ng 5 Feb

2018

• New Zealand Otago Trip in a 2019 Mustang GT 20 Dec
• Run youtube-dl (or similar) in the background 30 Jul
• Disabling scroll-wheel zoom in Firefox 16 Jul
• Highlands Festival of Speed 2018 11 Apr
• Flash Storage and SSD Failure Rate Update (March 2018) 20 Mar
• Theory of constraints 17 Jan

2017

• Top album picks for 2017 28 Dec
• HP 4951C Protocol Analyser 27 Dec
• Talk - Clustered, Distributed File and Volume Storage with GlusterFS 14 Nov
• Applying syntax in Sublime based on the first file line 25 Oct
• Broadcom, Or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Drop The Packet 13 Oct
• GlusterFS 25 Sep
• Return Of The RSS 22 Sep

2016

• MH-Z19 CO2 sensor reader, logger and visualiser 21 Dec
• Castle Hill Winter Trip 2016 Photos 6 Aug
• The State of Android in 2016 & The OnePlus 3 Phone 11 Jul
• Update Delayed Serial STONITH Design 4 Jul
• Monitoring SystemD Units With Nagios 23 May
• Online Conversion from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 in PostgreSQL 23 May
• Speeding Up rsync 3 May
• Benchmarking IO with FIO 29 Apr
• Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github 4 Feb
• AskIzzy 29 Jan
• Fix XenServer SR with corrupt or invalid metadata 18 Jan

2015

• iSCSI SCSI-ID / Serial Persistence 14 Dec
• How to cluster and failover (almost) anything - An intro to Pacemaker and Corosync 9 Nov
• SAN Intro 7 Oct
• Replacing Junos Pulse with OpenConnect 22 Sep
• SSD Storage - Two Months In Production 13 Sep
• OS X Software Update Channels For Betas 1 Sep
• iSCSI Benchmarking 24 Jul
• Delayed Serial STONITH 21 Jul
• Video - Cluster Failover Performance Demo 12 Jul
• CentOS 7 and HA 7 Jul
• SSD Storage Cluster - Update and Diagram 17 Jun
• Video - Storage Cluster Failover Demo 14 May
• Talk - High Performance Software Defined Storage 15 Apr
• Continuous integration for the Linux Kernel - Built within Docker 15 Mar
• Xen Orchestra Docker Image 26 Feb
• Delete Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OSX 23 Feb
• Building a high performance SSD SAN - Part 1 16 Feb
• Direct-Attach SSD Storage - Performance & Comparisons 15 Feb
• Search - A Journey of Delivery on a Budget 15 Feb
• Talk - 24 Months 15 Feb
• The Best Of - 2014 Edition 15 Feb
• XenServer, SSDs & VM Storage Performance 15 Feb

2010

• BMW E36 328i Manual Conversion Programming 10 Jun