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Clustered, Distributed File and Volume Storage with GlusterFS", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2017/11/talk-clustered-distributed-file-and-volume-storage-with-glusterfs/", "published_at": "2017-11-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f0dfb5db", "title": "Applying syntax in Sublime based on the first file line", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2017/10/applying-syntax-in-sublime-based-on-the-first-file-line/", "published_at": "2017-10-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f1c5cfb7", "title": "Broadcom, Or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Drop The Packet", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2017/10/broadcom-or-how-i-learned-to-start-worrying-and-drop-the-packet/", "published_at": "2017-10-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f220c94c", "title": "GlusterFS", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2017/09/glusterfs/", "published_at": "2017-09-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f2554981", "title": "Return Of The RSS", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2017/09/return-of-the-rss/", "published_at": "2017-09-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f32dac61", "title": "MH-Z19 CO2 sensor reader, logger and visualiser", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/12/mh-z19-co2-sensor-reader-logger-and-visualiser/", "published_at": "2016-12-21T05:37:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f40dbec4", "title": "Castle Hill Winter Trip 2016 Photos", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/08/castle-hill-winter-trip-2016-photos/", "published_at": "2016-08-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f4ce4a30", "title": "The State of Android in 2016 & The OnePlus 3 Phone", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/07/the-state-of-android-in-2016-the-oneplus-3-phone/", "published_at": "2016-07-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f58050ce", "title": "Update Delayed Serial STONITH Design", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/07/update-delayed-serial-stonith-design/", "published_at": "2016-07-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f6695769", "title": "Monitoring SystemD Units With Nagios", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/05/monitoring-systemd-units-with-nagios/", "published_at": "2016-05-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f751b320", "title": "Online Conversion from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 in PostgreSQL", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/05/online-conversion-from-sql_ascii-to-utf8-in-postgresql/", "published_at": "2016-05-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f81da520", "title": "Speeding Up rsync", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/05/speeding-up-rsync/", "published_at": "2016-05-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f84f17d1", "title": "Benchmarking IO with FIO", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/04/benchmarking-io-with-fio/", "published_at": "2016-04-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f8e0b464", "title": "Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/02/mirroring-a-gitlab-project-to-github/", "published_at": "2016-02-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f92292a1", "title": "AskIzzy", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/01/askizzy/", "published_at": "2016-01-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6f9fbd16f", "title": "Fix XenServer SR with corrupt or invalid metadata", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2016/01/fix-xenserver-sr-with-corrupt-or-invalid-metadata/", "published_at": "2016-01-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6fa3d9683", "title": "iSCSI SCSI-ID / Serial Persistence", "url": "https://smcleod.net/2015/12/iscsi-scsi-id-/-serial-persistence/", "published_at": "2015-12-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e2-8e34-7040-a601-37f6faf09fc9", "title": "How to cluster and failover (almost) anything - 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2026

Writing and Reviewing Agent Skills - Common Pitfalls original ↗

3 Jul 2026

Measuring Model Quantisation Quality with KL Divergence original ↗

27 Apr 2026

New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays original ↗

28 Mar 2026

The advice I find myself repeating every time someone asks how to get started with Claude Code original ↗

4 Mar 2026

Patching NVIDIA's driver and vLLM to enable P2P on consumer GPUs original ↗

25 Feb 2026

2025

The Role Bridging Problem original ↗

19 Nov 2025

Stop Polluting Context - Let Users Disable Individual MCP Tools original ↗

25 Aug 2025

MCP DevTools original ↗

17 Aug 2025

Agentic Coding Adoption Cost Cycle original ↗

15 Jul 2025

Agentic Coding Workflow & Cline Demo original ↗

19 Jun 2025

Vibe Coding vs Agentic Coding original ↗

5 Jun 2025

My Plan, Document, Act, Review flow for Agentic Software Development original ↗

27 Apr 2025

LLM Sampling Parameters Guide original ↗

24 Apr 2025

Getting Started with Agentic Systems - Developer Learning Paths original ↗

15 Apr 2025

The Cost of Agentic Coding original ↗

2 Apr 2025

The Democratisation Paradox: What History Teaches Us About AI original ↗

22 Mar 2025

The effects of prompt caching on Agentic coding original ↗

20 Mar 2025

Agentic Coding - Live Demo / Brownbag original ↗

6 Feb 2025

2024

Bringing K/V Context Quantisation to Ollama original ↗

4 Dec 2024

Will AI Take My Job?original ↗

29 Nov 2024

Generating Diagrams with with AI / LLMs original ↗

8 Oct 2024

Ingest: Streamlining Content Preparation for LLMs original ↗

29 Jul 2024

LLM Parameter Playground original ↗

20 Jul 2024

Code, Chaos, and Copilots (AI/LLM Talk July 2024)original ↗

18 Jul 2024

Understanding AI/LLM Quantisation Through Interactive Visualisations original ↗

17 Jul 2024

Rating AI Tools original ↗

3 Jul 2024

Gollama: Ollama Model Manager original ↗

1 Jun 2024

Confuddlement: Download Confluence Spaces as Markdown, Summarise with Ollama original ↗

23 May 2024

NVApi - Nvidia GPU Monitoring API original ↗

18 May 2024

SuperPrompter - Supercharge your text prompts for AI/LLM image generation original ↗

22 Mar 2024

Llamalink - Ollama to LM Studio LLM Model Linker original ↗

21 Mar 2024

2023

Open source, locally hosted AI powered Siri replacement original ↗

20 Nov 2023

Fun with Makefiles - Dynamic Menu Generation original ↗

14 Nov 2023

MBA Washing original ↗

13 Nov 2023

SDXL LoRA Training original ↗

30 Oct 2023

Fixing AMD CPU Scaling on Fedora original ↗

9 Jul 2023

Defaulting git clone to shallow (depth=1)original ↗

28 May 2023

How likely would you be to block a company from asking you to rate everything they do?original ↗

26 May 2023

Escaping the Time Trap: Why Estimating Effort, Not Time, Leads to Greater Success original ↗

28 Apr 2023

Introduction to AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)original ↗

26 Jan 2023

Open Budgeting - Subscriptions & Licences original ↗

5 Jan 2023

2022

Energy, Sustainability and Deployment Frequency original ↗

31 Dec 2022

Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part Two original ↗

18 Nov 2022

Github Not-So-Reusable Actions original ↗

6 Nov 2022

YAML Anchors and Aliases original ↗

6 Nov 2022

Zsh Configuration and Plugins - Part One original ↗

5 Nov 2022

Encourage Your Peers To Contribute To Open Source original ↗

30 Oct 2022

Making Work Visible - Avoid DMs original ↗

20 Oct 2022

The Best Of - 2022 Edition original ↗

19 Oct 2022

It's 2022 and we're (still) not deploying enough original ↗

23 Aug 2022

DALL·E 2 - Selected works original ↗

8 Jul 2022

Beginner Harmonica Practice Exercises original ↗

13 Jun 2022

Firefox Addons for 2022 original ↗

17 May 2022

2021

Goodbye Evernote, Hello Bear original ↗

22 Jul 2021

Rancilio Silvia Upgrade original ↗

11 Jul 2021

2020

DevOps Team Charter original ↗

18 Nov 2020

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta original ↗

8 Nov 2020

The Best Of - 2020 Edition original ↗

10 Oct 2020

Rest in Peace Jimothy original ↗

8 Oct 2020

2019

Camels Dressed As Unicorns original ↗

8 Aug 2019

Looking For New Opportunities original ↗

6 Aug 2019

Leaving Infoxchange original ↗

29 Jun 2019

Goodbye XenSever - Hello XCP-ng original ↗

5 Feb 2019

2018

New Zealand Otago Trip in a 2019 Mustang GT original ↗

20 Dec 2018

Run youtube-dl (or similar) in the background original ↗

30 Jul 2018

Disabling scroll-wheel zoom in Firefox original ↗

16 Jul 2018

Highlands Festival of Speed 2018 original ↗

11 Apr 2018

Flash Storage and SSD Failure Rate Update (March 2018)original ↗

20 Mar 2018

Theory of constraints original ↗

17 Jan 2018

2017

Top album picks for 2017 original ↗

28 Dec 2017

HP 4951C Protocol Analyser original ↗

27 Dec 2017

Talk - Clustered, Distributed File and Volume Storage with GlusterFS original ↗

14 Nov 2017

Applying syntax in Sublime based on the first file line original ↗

25 Oct 2017

Broadcom, Or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Drop The Packet original ↗

13 Oct 2017

GlusterFS original ↗

25 Sept 2017

Return Of The RSS original ↗

22 Sept 2017

2016

MH-Z19 CO2 sensor reader, logger and visualiser original ↗

21 Dec 2016

Castle Hill Winter Trip 2016 Photos original ↗

6 Aug 2016

The State of Android in 2016 & The OnePlus 3 Phone original ↗

11 Jul 2016

Update Delayed Serial STONITH Design original ↗

4 Jul 2016

Monitoring SystemD Units With Nagios original ↗

23 May 2016

Online Conversion from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 in PostgreSQL original ↗

23 May 2016

Speeding Up rsync original ↗

3 May 2016

Benchmarking IO with FIO original ↗

29 Apr 2016

Mirroring a Gitlab project to Github original ↗

4 Feb 2016

AskIzzy original ↗

29 Jan 2016

Fix XenServer SR with corrupt or invalid metadata original ↗

18 Jan 2016

2015

iSCSI SCSI-ID / Serial Persistence original ↗

14 Dec 2015

How to cluster and failover (almost) anything - An intro to Pacemaker and Corosync original ↗

9 Nov 2015

SAN Intro original ↗

7 Oct 2015

Replacing Junos Pulse with OpenConnect original ↗

22 Sept 2015

SSD Storage - Two Months In Production original ↗

13 Sept 2015

OS X Software Update Channels For Betas original ↗

1 Sept 2015

iSCSI Benchmarking original ↗

24 Jul 2015

Delayed Serial STONITH original ↗

21 Jul 2015

Video - Cluster Failover Performance Demo original ↗

12 Jul 2015

CentOS 7 and HA original ↗

7 Jul 2015

SSD Storage Cluster - Update and Diagram original ↗

17 Jun 2015

Video - Storage Cluster Failover Demo original ↗

14 May 2015

Talk - High Performance Software Defined Storage original ↗

15 Apr 2015