
Farfalle vs Perplexica
Comparing two self-hosted AI search engines
Awesome food is the pleasure for your eyes too. But in this post we will compare two AI-based search systems, Farfalle and Perplexica.
Comparing two self-hosted AI search engines
Awesome food is the pleasure for your eyes too. But in this post we will compare two AI-based search systems, Farfalle and Perplexica.
Which language to use for AWS lambda?
We can write lambda function for deployment to AWS in several languages. Let’s compare the performance of (almost empty) functions written in JavaScript, Python and Golang…
Running copilot-style service locally? Easy!
That’s very exciting! Instead of calling copilot or perplexity.ai and telling all the world what you are after, you can now host similar service on your own PC or laptop!
Not so many to choose from but still....
When I started experimenting with LLMs the UIs for them were in active development and now some of them are really good.
Labelling and training needs some glueing
When I trained object detector AI some time ago - LabelImg was a very helpful tool, but the export from Label Studio to COCO format wasn’t accepted by MMDetection framework..
Ollama LLM model files take a lot of space
After installing ollama better to reconfigure ollama to store them in new place right away. So after we pull a new model, it doesn’t get downloaded to the old location.
It's so annoying to watch all those ads
You can install a browser adblock plugin or addon for google chrome, firefox or safari, but but you will have to do this on each device. The network-wide ad-blocker is my favorite solution.
Very frequent error message...
After clonning the git repository, do the local repository configuration, particularly set user name and email address.
Hugo is a static site generator
When the site is generated with hugo it’s time to deploy it to some hosting platform. Here is a howto push it to AWS S3 and serve with AWS CloudFront CDN.
Anything can happen in these difficult times
Need to backup the 1) db, 2) filestorage, 3) some other gitea files. Here we go.
Sometimes you just need to add your item there ...
Cropping, resizing and making borders to the images for this blog pushed me to add this frequently used feature to Linux Mint Cinnamon’s context menu.
Some tools command line params
Not a very comprehensive list, just some useful to me ones
To use container registry in k8s we need it over ssl
We want to host a nice and secure container registry - to push docker images there and our kubernetes cluster would pull them from this registry. So came the idea to use the gitea over ssl.
Trying to choose good opensource git server
Wanting to move your projects away from open cloud git providers and thinking of self-hosting internal git server locally?
Auto-resizing images to suit static sites
Mainroad theme in Hugo doesn’t resize images automatically, just copies from static folder. So we need to prepare scripto ro resize and crop images to proper size.