Melbourne’s tech community continues to thrive in 2026 with an impressive lineup of conferences, meetups, and workshops spanning software development, cloud computing, AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.

vLLM is a high-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for Large Language Models (LLMs) developed by UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab.

The NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10 Grace Blackwell) is now available in Australia at major PC retailers with local stock. If you’ve been following the global DGX Spark pricing and availability, you’ll be interested to know that in January 2026 Australian pricing ranged from $6,249 to $7,999 AUD depending on storage configuration and retailer. The 29/10/2026 listings are in the section further down.

Creating custom planner inserts combines the satisfaction of analog planning with the flexibility of digital design tools. Here are just the notes on printing them.

PDFMiner.six is a powerful Python library for extracting text, metadata, and layout information from PDF documents.

Playwright is a powerful, modern browser automation framework that revolutionizes web scraping and end-to-end testing.

This post is just to show a nice photo of the snake-arranged coals in my BBQ, ready to fire.

The proliferation of AI-generated content has created a new challenge: distinguishing genuine human writing from “AI slop” - low-quality, mass-produced synthetic text.

Cognee is a Python framework for building knowledge graphs from documents using LLMs. But does it work with self-hosted models?

Related guides for persistent knowledge layers — agent memory plugins, graph tooling, and stack context — live under the AI Systems Memory hub.

When working with Large Language Models in production, getting structured, type-safe outputs is critical. Two popular frameworks - BAML and Instructor - take different approaches to solving this problem.

Choosing the Best LLM for Cognee demands balancing graph-building quality, hallucination rates, and hardware constraints. Cognee excels with larger, low-hallucination models (32B+) via Ollama but mid-size options work for lighter setups.

You install KVM on Ubuntu 24.04 by checking CPU virtualization support, installing the KVM/libvirt packages, enabling the libvirtd service, and (optionally) installing virt‑manager for a GUI.

Managing Go projects effectively requires understanding how workspaces organize code, dependencies, and build environments.

A well-configured bash prompt displaying git repository information can dramatically improve your development workflow.

Breadcrumb navigation combined with proper schema markup is one of the most effective yet underutilized SEO techniques that can significantly improve your website’s search visibility and user experience.

Universal package managers have transformed Linux software distribution, making cross-distribution compatibility a reality. Snap and Flatpak emerged as the leading solutions, each bringing distinct philosophies to solving dependency hell and distribution fragmentation.