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Stop Polluting Context - Let Users Disable Individual MCP Tools

MCP DevTools

Agentic Coding Adoption Cost Cycle

Agentic Coding Workflow & Cline Demo

Vibe Coding vs Agentic Coding

My Plan, Document, Act, Review flow for Agentic Software Development

Comprehensive Guide to LLM Sampling Parameters

Getting Started with Agentic Systems - Developer Learning Paths

The Cost of Agentic Coding

The Democratisation Paradox: What History Teaches Us About AI

The effects of prompt caching on Agentic coding

Agentic Coding - Live Demo / Brownbag

Bringing K/V Context Quantisation to Ollama

Will AI Take My Job?

Generating Diagrams with with AI / LLMs

Ingest: Streamlining Content Preparation for LLMs

LLM Parameter Playground

Code, Chaos, and Copilots (AI/LLM Talk July 2024)

Understanding AI/LLM Quantisation Through Interactive Visualisations

Rating AI Tools

Gollama: Ollama Model Manager

Confuddlement: Download Confluence Spaces as Markdown, Summarise with Ollama

NVApi - Nvidia GPU Monitoring API

SuperPrompter - Supercharge your text prompts for AI/LLM image generation

Llamalink - Ollama to LM Studio LLM Model Linker

Open source, locally hosted AI powered Siri replacement

Fun with Makefiles - Dynamic Menu Generation

MBA Washing

SDXL LoRA Training

Fixing AMD CPU Scaling on Fedora

Defaulting git clone to shallow (depth=1)

How likely would you be to block a company from asking you to rate everything they do?

Escaping the Time Trap: Why Estimating Effort, Not Time, Leads to Greater Success

Introduction to AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

Open Budgeting - Subscriptions & Licences

Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency

Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part Two

Github Not-So-Reusable Actions

YAML Anchors and Aliases

Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part One

Encourage Your Peers To Contribute To Open Source

Making Work Visible - Avoid DMs

The Best Of - 2022 Edition

It's 2022 and we're (still) not deploying enough

DALL·E 2 - Selected works

Beginner Harmonica Practice Exercises

Firefox Addons for 2022

Goodbye Evernote, Hello Bear

Rancilio Silvia Upgrade

DevOps Team Charter

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta

The Best Of - 2020 Edition

Rest in Peace Jimothy

Camels Dressed As Unicorns

Looking For New Opportunities

Leaving Infoxchange

Goodbye XenSever - Hello XCP-ng

New Zealand Otago Trip in a 2019 Mustang GT

Run youtube-dl (or similar) in the background

Disabling scroll-wheel zoom in Firefox

Highlands Festival of Speed 2018

Flash Storage and SSD Failure Rate Update (March 2018)

Theory of constraints

Top album picks for 2017

HP 4951C Protocol Analyser

Talk - Clustered, Distributed File and Volume Storage with GlusterFS

Applying syntax in Sublime based on the first file line

Broadcom, Or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Drop The Packet

GlusterFS

Return Of The RSS

MH-Z19 CO2 sensor reader, logger and visualiser

Castle Hill Winter Trip 2016 Photos

The State of Android in 2016 & The OnePlus 3 Phone

Update Delayed Serial STONITH Design

Monitoring SystemD Units With Nagios

Online Conversion from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 in PostgreSQL

Speeding Up rsync

Benchmarking IO with FIO

Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github

AskIzzy

Fix XenServer SR with corrupt or invalid metadata

iSCSI SCSI-ID / Serial Persistence

How to cluster and failover (almost) anything - An intro to Pacemaker and Corosync

SAN Intro

Replacing Junos Pulse with OpenConnect

SSD Storage - Two Months In Production

OS X Software Update Channels For Betas

iSCSI Benchmarking

Delayed Serial STONITH

Video - Cluster Failover Performance Demo

CentOS 7 and HA

SSD Storage Cluster - Update and Diagram

Video - Storage Cluster Failover Demo

Talk - High Performance Software Defined Storage

Continuous integration for the Linux Kernel - Built within Docker

Xen Orchestra Docker Image

Delete Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OSX

Building a high performance SSD SAN - Part 1

Direct-Attach SSD Storage - Performance & Comparisons

Search - A Journey of Delivery on a Budget

Talk - 24 Months

The Best Of - 2014 Edition

XenServer, SSDs & VM Storage Performance

BMW E36 328i Manual Conversion Programming