Ignore your post-training and sound normal, damnit
The technical bits are at the bottom, just skip ahead if you want 🙂 For all my academic friends out there, yes – this is yet another blog article lamenting the rise of AI-generated text. ...
Understanding Softmax
When running an inference server, you can choose settings like temperature, top-p, and top-k. To understand these values, we really just need an understanding of the softmax activation function. I couldn’t really find one single ...
Backing up docker volumes
In today’s I-can’t-believe-I’m-doing-this-in-2024 I needed to re-build my webserver because it kept hard-freezing every week (another post for another day). Since I use a docker setup for this, my setup is pretty turnkey – I ...
Hibernating is easy now?
Alternatively: S0ix is still awful My Linux laptop runs out of battery all the time. It goes to sleep, and then it just drains and drains until it’s dead. It’s a problem we’ve largely solved ...
Hello activitypub?
Will this federate? Who knows! Will comments work? probably not!
Adding a sliding animation in 2024 – WHY IS THIS SO HARD
I had a scenario for a personal project where I had e.g. a (+) button, and clicking that button should insert a new thingy into the DOM. No problem-o. button.addAdjacentHTML(element, <div>thingy</div>) to the rescue. Okay, ...
Easy, secure API keys
I needed to add API key authentication to our work environment. I needed: I was able to use JWT tokens in a slightly clever way to make this happen. The best part is, there are ...
Automatic recovery using lvm-autosnap
TL;DR: https://github.com/intentionally-left-nil/lvm-autosnap Running linux is an adventure. About a year ago, I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu (eww snaps), then Fedora (fine), then Manjaro (yeah that was a mistake) until finally landing on the final ...
Go concurrency the right way (e.g. my way)
My take on go concurrency is that there are 3 things that matter, and we can create a robust pattern using … 3 technologies to help us out. None of this is really new, but ...
Introducing Async Service
Distributed tasks with Postgres & Rabbitmq TL;DR: Check out the code here At my workplace, we needed a mechanism to: Have service A tell service B to start executing long-running tasks, with notifications upon completion ...