LLM Variants - Purpose Tuned Models
A minor primer on choosing specialized LLM variants for agentic workflows
Engineering
Saturday Morning Inference
A bit more focus on LLMs, Ai Perf, and some Acronyms for Optimizing
Good Morning from the Glossary
Words have meaning - requirements for 'Continuity of Shared Reality'
On FOSS, OSS, and Give Me Money
Thoughts on the evolution of FOSS into $OSS, man pages, and the great un-learning
System Migration Complete, and Now it's Cherry Time
ZFS sync from box to box, impatience, performance, routines
Need more PCIe slots, not more lanes, but slots.
Staring at this board, mentally converting PCIe lane count to device requirements, only to consider that yet again... It's 2025. We're still using the PCIe slot standard for most motherboards, even on enterprise boards. Who's doing this right, at least marginally so? ASRack (brain, please grow up and stop making elementary jokes) has been putting four physical x16 slots on their "Deep mini-ITX&
The demise of Fedora as a Developer Distro
The Q4-2024 through Q2-2025 cycle has been one of remarkable instability for Fedora kernels and systemd breaking-changes. F40 through F42 have offered more crashes, more kernel panics, and more core dumps than any triple-set of versions since its dawning into existence - and I've been running this distro for dev-only boxes since the first release. In the worst of circumstances, Fedora notified me of a firmware update, which
🌐 Weekend Hardware Update 🌐
Some additional reorganization time this weekend, all busy with the process of preparing the HomeLab for another interstate relocation. Having decided to repurpose some hardware to create a new router, this one formerly hosted infra VMs several years ago, but now it's going to run a pair of "BSD Router Project" VMs for on-host H/A, and a bit of packet shuffling between hosts for RDMA