GPT & Klavier.ai
I was playing with ChatGPT and Klavier.ai the other day. It purports to import documentation so that you can ask questions about it. I let it read in the PRQL …
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Save money while keeping latency low
I often hear people saying they have bad responsiveness / high latency on their high-speed internet connection. Even though they have a contract for 500 mbps+ service from their ISP, …
Save money while keeping latency low Read MoreuBlock Origin and other blockers
Many people are surprised to hear that their web browsing doesn’t have to be crowded out by intrusive ads. There is an entire industry of “ad blockers” and “content blockers” …
uBlock Origin and other blockers Read MoreFormat pretty reports in PRQL
I can no longer bring myself to write bare SQL – PRQL makes building queries so easy. I have become enamored with PRQL – Pipelined Relational Query Language, pronounced “Prequel”. …
Format pretty reports in PRQL Read MoreStable sorting for DB Browser for SQLite
I had some data in SQLite, and wanted to sort on the columns (and on a pair of columns). I really like DB Browser for SQLite because it’s free, powerful, …
Stable sorting for DB Browser for SQLite Read MoreDocker vs. Ansible
I recently gave a talk to the local Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group describing some similarities between Docker and Ansible. Both give you a repeatable configuration by executing some sort …
Docker vs. Ansible Read MoreINCLUDEPICTURE in Microsoft Word Mail Merge
What a crock! How badly documented can a facility be? There are lots of tutorials on the basics of Microsoft Mail Merge, but there is a dearth of information for …
INCLUDEPICTURE in Microsoft Word Mail Merge Read MoreMore Fun with Docker Tooling
I continue to enjoy using Docker to encapsulate developer tooling so that it doesn’t pollute my laptop with varying versions of software I don’t use regularly. (See Jonathan Bergknoff’s Run …
More Fun with Docker Tooling Read MoreMigrating Snowpack to Vite (and Docker!)
About eighteen months ago I migrated a small Javascript app to use Snowpack development tooling. (This was mostly for fun, I had already had it working with Webpack.) Snowpack claimed …
Migrating Snowpack to Vite (and Docker!) Read MoreUsing Apple’s RPM tool
macOS Monterey ships with a tool that measures the responsiveness of your network connection. It saturates the network with traffic for 20 seconds, then measures the rate of short transactions …
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