Terminal progress indicators are a common sight in command-line applications, often used to show progress of long running tasks and ensuring users don’t get bored. Implementing them in scripts these days is pretty straightforward thanks to various libraries, but I’ve been curious about how they actually work under the hood.

I have been seeing a number of articles and discussions regarding the decline of Stack Overflow posting activity over the past year. My immediate first thought was around the value that the question-answer dataset holds, and what would happen if it were to be shut down, or its vast repository…

When running machine learning workloads that require GPU access, it’s usually necessary to have the CUDA toolkit ready. Although installing CUDA directly on the host is possible, I prefer to keep the host system clean and isolated from major dependencies. This is especially useful when working with libraries such as…

The most common way to run GitHub Actions is to use the hosted runners provided by GitHub, but these runners don’t have direct access to internal AWS resources such as databases or API/HTTP services in private VPCs. The usual approach to solving this would be to use self-hosted runners deployed…

Traditionally there have been two main ways to deal with having to run Windows applications when using a Linux environment as a daily driver. The first is to dual boot into Windows, and the other is to use an emulation layer such as Wine or Proton.

Firefox has a chatbot sidebar that can be used to interact with the popular LLM chatbot providers, such as Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. It is possible to allow it to also talk to a local LLM, although it’s not a readily visible option.

When working with multiple GitHub organisations, it is common to have to manage multiple SSH keys for git operations.