Notes: Local LLM (Ollama) Co-pilot AlternativeOver the holidays and in the first week of the 2025, I muddled through setting up an alternative to Co-pilot using Ollama on my Mac and Continue as the UI in VSCode. I was thinking about writing an article about it and posting it here. However, this ...Feb 3, 2025·3 min read
First DayToday is my first day working as a Publishing Systems Developer at California Digital Library. I’m still settling in and meeting people, but I really like the people I have met so far. I am really glad to be moving back into the realm of repository w...Mar 9, 2020·1 min read
Data analysis and server optimization -- yesterday was a good dayServer performance has been on my mind lately, specifically Solr server performance. We use Solr as our search and browse infrastructure for MOspace, our DSpace -based institutional repository. I've heard that search performance on MOspace has been s...Feb 20, 2020·4 min read
terrible network performance? set your MTUI have very recently gone through the hassle of changing ISPs at home because DSL just wasn't reliable enough (or fast enough) for my working-at-home needs. However, in all the troubleshooting I had to do to try to get DSL to behave more reliably for...Sep 20, 2017·2 min read
filtering out gibberishSo, this is a bit of a long story. As a background, one of my projects is building a DSpace repository for 3D architectural models. These models are stored in a format that is unique to the tool the researchers use, which means they are big binary fi...Apr 20, 2017·3 min read
