Darren's Blog

I've recently found a good setup for using locally powered LLMs in the IDEs I use every day. Specifically, I almost exclusively use Jetbrains IDEs like Rider, WebStorm, PyCharm, etc. After building a large chunk of my own LLM integration for these IDEs, I have finally found a setup that I wanted via the Open Source plugin called CodeGPT. In this guide, I'll walk you through the steps on how I int ...

I recently build my own homelab using a Dell T7910. Compared to a similar AWS setup, it cost me less to purchase than a single AWS monthly bill. AWS is raking in the profits, if you have to use AWS for large compute, upgrade instance type as much as possible. I intend to try and power my server using 100% home generated solar, will try to post projects at homelab.solar domain. Cloud VS Homelab ...

It might sound cynical, but it isn't often a new piece of software comes a long, and I'm immediately won over. SQLite SQLite's utility when it comes to proof of concept or testing environments has been something I've been leaning on for a number of years. For example, in any demo, personal project, it is my default choice simply because it is easy to use, and embedded right into your application ...

If you've seen much of twitter at all, you will know pretty quickly I don't like cryptocurrencies. To be clear, I don't hate the technology behind cryptocurrencies. Cryptography is an extremely useful bit of maths that enables a lot of what we do on the internet long before the term "cryptocurrency" was common place. Distributed databases are an interesting problem. Decentralized systems have fas ...

It has been over 10 years since I started blogging on a few technical/software related topics. Having my blog tied to a platform like Blogger didn't really encourage me to do anything with it, so I'm finally getting around to starting the blog a new and try to document the process of migration if anyone else wants to do the same. Markdown from HTML Thankfully most platforms do provide an API to ...