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A runbook for serving a model too big for one GPU: download to serving in seven steps, with every vLLM flag, startup log line and real error explained, plus tensor, pipeline and expert parallelism benchmarked head to head on a ...
Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can overtake sidewalks, houses, ...
Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests Netflix provide some feedback buttons to indicate the kinds of experiences ...
I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API (storagemigration.k8s.io/v1) and control plane controller are now fully stable and ...
It’s my birthday! Well, it was a couple of days ago. I was busy. Here’s an element that I made all by myself.
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get ...
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks ...
Over the bank holiday weekend I read The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada. This is the first physical novel I’ve read in years (I read ebooks). And the first novel I’ve read — not listened to — in months ...
A hands-on comparison of Istio sidecar and ambient mode for zero-trust service mesh. Same app, same policy, two architectures proven step by step on a local cluster.
The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these. As always, ...
A large purple hand holds a pendulum swinging one man between standing arms-wide on a ship's prow in warm sienna and collapsed head-in-hands in a purple office chair/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp/images/workplace-situation-mental-health.webp One thing I keep forgetting and relearni...
Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on resting, or, indeed, Sundays. ...
Finally figured out a bulletproof system for landing on the best model for the job.
Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their hand at a tricky Core Text layout issue for Japanese vertical writing: GPT 5.6 Sol xHigh: 1,581,445 tokens and 2189 lines changed Fable 5 medium: 37,000 tokens and 1 line changed ...
The first time I heard a Llama Llama book being read was my wife reading the Ukrainian version to our daughter. Ukrainian is a very melodic language and sounds lovely in verse, which is why I just assumed the book ...
/goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in which it will keep working toward whatever goal you set until it gradually convinces itself that the stated goal is not what you wanted but rather some much easier objective was ...
Saturdays are for actually remembering that it's a Bank Holiday weekend, rather than forgetting and coming in on Monday and getting viciously annoyed with Julian and Mark for seeming to ignore your Gchat messages. (They do that anyway, regardless of ...
Whenever I need to eke out some extra intelligence from an LLM, I ask it to speak to me in a British accent.
Clause 5 asked whether leadership owns the system. Clause 6 asks what leadership plans to do with it. This is the clause where the standard stops describing structure and starts demanding foresight. It has three parts: actions to address risks ...
It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration: # On sender... ip address add dev eth0 fd42:dead:beef::1/48 ip link set dev eth0 up # On receiver... ip address add dev eth0 ...
If you need to mount a UFS2 volume directly on Ubuntu–for example, from a snapshot of a XigmaNAS VM using UFS storage beneath a ZFS pool on the VM host–there are a few extra hurdles along the way. First, you ...
Kubernetes brings a wealth of features that make it easy to run your production workloads securely and reliably. While aspects like scheduling, health checks and resource limits are probably at the front of your mind, one other important feature of ...
The era of generative AI has kindled an era of generative AI witchhunts. It's routine right now for videogame developers to fend off accusations of using the technology, even when they are full-throated in their disapproval of ChatGPT, Claude and ...
I suppose, in a way, I asked for this. Crouched and cowering behind a garden fence, inches away from the thrashing, cleaver-faced miscreation who’d quite comfortably win in a fight against my splintering plank of rotten wood, I can almost ...
I'll take "things nobody asked for" for $500, Alex
“Software developers haven’t all switched to using agents for their coding, but they do seem to have all switched to error-prone, backwards-facing, nondeterministic chatbots for what now passes as web dev “education”. Every time I thought to myself “maybe it ...
[[Writing]] has become my passion over time; I have built a whole company based on technical writing services (even though most say that’s impossible). After doing it for 11 years publicly (much longer privately), I still enjoy it every day. ...
Being a pope is a stressful job. That's true today, but imagine heading up the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th century. Back then, the leader of the Catholic Church didn't have access to a bubble car or a social ...
I've watched it. The extended look at the game humanity's breath is currently held for. The one that doesn't have a PC release date right now, making it hard to know how to feel about covering it extensively if, say, ...
807 blog posts across 14 years. That’s how much I’ve published on my blog at the time of this writing. And here’s the question I’ve been turning over in my mind: “How do I convey that kind of volume across ...
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the metrics.k8s.io API to stable (v1). This API provides CPU and memory usage for nodes and Pods, and is the API behind commands such as kubectl top and resource-metrics-based autoscaling. For cluster operators and application developers, this ...
The general idea is that we create a Document Picture-in-Picture window (DPIP window), and then we put HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into it. Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Jeff Cohen, senior vice president at Zywave, for lunch at the Bryant Park Grill. He had the chicken cobb salad and an unsweetened iced tea. I had the mushroom ravioli. We ...
When I sat down to play Road Kings in April, the event organisers were very clear: when you're done driving around in the sandbox, let us know and we will load up the disaster movie scene. After fifty minutes of ...
