DO NOT USE THIS TYPE (Use “Blog Entries”) – Ken
We use custom post types, and the “Blog Entries” type is what shows up on the blog… This goes nowhere 🙂 Best, Ken
Apple Silicon GPUs, Docker and Ollama: Pick two.
If you’ve tried to use Ollama with Docker on an Apple GPU lately, you might find out that their GPU is not supported. But you can get Ollama to run with GPU support on a Mac. This article will explain the problem, how to detect it, and how to get your Ollama workflow running with all of your VRAM (which, on a Mac, is your DRAM too)!
Getting started with LLM in the Cloud with Amazon DLAMI EC2 Instances
So you want to execute some custom CUDA-based AI processing on a GPU, but don’t have the hardware? Have an AWS account? Try using the DLAMI machine instances. This article explains how to get started if you need OS-level access.
Using the JetBrains AI Assistant from WebStorm
This article logs my experiments with the AI Assistant, a Generative AI service from JetBrains that keeps you in the IDE, asking questions of an expert chatbot. The service provides a pane that is docked alongside of your coding tools, so you don’t have to keep jumping out to Google to grab a code snippet. It also provides some refactoring features as well. Read on for more information.
Electron, not a walk in the park
Recently, a project I worked on was considering using Electron as a fallback technology for an initial Progressive Web Application. At the time, the assumption was that since Electron uses Chromium, a browser, it should allow application developers to not only use the features of a PWA but also gain native access to technologies, such … Read More
Enabling REPLs and conversations with Spring Boot using Spring Shell and JShell
Earlier this year at PhillyETE, we had a great talk by Avdi Grimm and Jessica Kerr, REPLs All The Way Up: A Rubric For Virtuous Feedback Loops. In this talk, one of the key theses was to find ways to make exploring your code easier, via REPLs, scenario setups and other means. Many years ago … Read More
How to run Apple OS X Sonoma Developer Beta on UTM from OS X Ventura
If you want to run OS X Sonoma, but can’t dedicate a computer to it, you could always install it on the UTM virtual machine engine. This allows you to test out Beta OS X features without taking over your primary machine’s OS. Pre-requisites: A Mac with Apple Silicon running OS X Ventura An Apple … Read More
You may have moved on, but Java is thriving
If you’re one of those people who left Java before it got into functional programming with Lambdas and Streams, we’ve got news for you.
AWS CodeBuild and Flyway Database Migrations
Are you running a database with RDS? Would you like to manage it via migrations? This article explains how to use AWS CodeBuild to keep a database schema updated using Flyway, an open-source data migrations tool. Configuration is outlined via CloudFormation snippets. An AWS example repository is provided.
The look forward – one consultant’s view on tech trends in 2023
As 2022 comes to a close, here are some of the technologies, patterns and strategies I'm watching for 2023. This list is from my perspective, I'm sure if you poll others here at Chariot they'd have their own. The Big Serverless Push Watching the re:Invent keynote last month, you'd be hard pressed to miss Werner … Read More