I wanted the best of both worlds: local models for privacy and cost, plus the scaffolding that makes modern tools actually pleasant to use. The plan was straightforward: LM Studio running the model, LiteLLM as the OpenAI‑compatible face, and three clients in the mix: Cursor, Opencode, and Crush. No spend, no drama, just enough configuration… Read More »
You may not have any inside connections but don’t give up! This post is about and for you. TLDR; The modern job search feels like feeding the void, never getting feedback, but when you finally do get the role all of this will feel worth the work. Searching for a job is more than a full time job. Not an hour goes by where you don’t refresh the job board or check your email. You check to see if any of your friends or contacts know of a role. You try to make contact with a hiring manager for each job you apply to.
My great-great grandfather was a typesetter. This was at the time an in demand and well paid career but one doomed to made obsolete. Typesetters were replaced by new technologies over time. There was phototypesetting, laser imagesetting and digital typesetting. At each point the output became cheaper, faster, more reliable and more complex. Each iteration changed everything about how the end result was made. Less people working on a specific task but able to do more work at the same time. Page designers creating massive and intricate layouts and whose job qualifications have little overlap with the original typesetters still perform similar tasks.
This post is a postmortem and celebration of my old web server that was ten years old before it needed to be replaced instead of trying to update it. Every stack decays over time. If your thinking web development a stack might be LAMP or MEAN. Stack in this context is the web server operating system itself, the HTTP server and any other software layering that makes running a web server easier. My goal in using WordPress for my blog was to create a platform that would allow me to focus on writing without worrying about technical details. The choice of WordPress seemed like an ideal solution at the time—popular, secure, and easy to use. However, as the years have passed, I’ve come to realize that these abstractions often come with hidden costs. Only my lack of experience at the outset obscured the implicit agreement to update and maintain the software abstractions I chose to use.
As I’ve begun to interact with language learning models (LLMs) more regularly, I’ve noticed a disheartening trend. These powerful tools, which exist to assist and provide helpful information, are often not forthcoming with answers when approached in a kind and respectful manner. Instead, they seem to respond better to aggressive or short, demanding requests.
My other crawling efforts in Crawling GitHub for New Cryptonight Coins used the GitHub API and Python. When I started on my efforts to find new Discord or Telegram invites that could possibly be cryptocurrency related I chose to walk a different path. This set of scripts used JavaScript and I did not use the… Read More »
This is the most important set of scripts I came up with. All new coins I was interested were fork off existing coins who host their source code on GitHub. Turtlecoin is the most developer friendly Cryptonight coin. It has 559 forks as of this writing and the developers are very friendly to helping people… Read More »
If you aren’t already familiar with BitcoinTalk it is a cryptocurrency focused forum where the majority of coins make their launch announcements. Crawling a forum isn’t rocket science to be sure but the fun happens in how to go about identifying a new coin as a Cryptonight coin of interest. You can crawl the forums… Read More »
How do you go about calculating or estimating your mining profits for Cryptonight coins? Honestly it was a mystery to me and I can’t take credit for the final simple formal. However much I’d like to credit the source s(he) prefers to remain anonymous in all things. (price * block reward / difficulty) = profit… Read More »
Numbers quickly became one of the trickier parts of tracking and calculating mining profit. MySQL offers many different numeric types and I first settled on using DECIMAL for most of my calculations. Some ridiculous values like with 40 significant digits. That worked out fairly well at the start. The cryptocurrency market however was in a… Read More »