I recently wanted to set up a small Loki environment on Kubernetes just to see how it worked, evaluate how it performs out of the box, and decide if it was something I wanted to…
Category: How-To’s
How To: Running Your Own Large Language Model On Linux
With the recent advent of large language models, the open source community has done what they tend to do quite often, and they created their own. There are all sorts of tools out there for…
A Seamless Authenticated Proxy Solution For Selenium
Forwarding Requests To An Authenticated Proxy With Squid In my web scraping adventures, I’ve run into the problem of attempting to use an authenticated proxy with Selenium. Using a proxy is relatively easy to configure…
Calling Command Line Tools With The Python Subprocess Module
Being able to use and control external tools within a programming language is a valuable resource. Obviously its ideal to have libraries and modules for such things, but sometimes when you’re trying to move fast,…
Creating A Default DEV Container File For GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces is an incredible offering that lets you run Visual Studio Code within a Docker container in the cloud, from your browser. What makes this offering a real game changer is when you couple…
Reducing Docker ext4.vhdx File Size On Windows
A common issue I’ve ran into when running Docker Desktop on Windows is a virtual drive consuming a large amount of disk space. If the common methods of reducing the disk space used by Docker…
How To Limit Core Dump Size In Docker
You may be filling up the disk with core dumps causing outages in your application. Or you’re troubleshooting Docker failures and don’t need 3000 core dumps. Whatever it is, you’ve decided to limit the size…
Finding The Largest Directories on Linux
Managing disk space on a Linux machine is a critical aspect of system administration. As data accumulates over time, it’s essential to identify which directories are consuming the most space. One powerful command that can…
Sending OpenTelemetry Logs To Vector Using Python
In the world of software development, log management plays a crucial role in understanding the behavior of applications and detecting potential issues. Vector is an open source project currently maintained by DataDog that provides robust…
How to Secure Your Docker Environment with NordVPN
Docker is a powerful tool that allows you to easily deploy and manage applications in a containerized environment. If you’re also a user of NordVPN, you may wish to pass the traffic coming from your…