11 April 2025 Run LLM Models Locally with Docker Good morning! This week has been a year long. I'm pretty confident if I still had hair I would've lost it again. All the best things come from down turns. Let's focus on the positives and get to work. Quick hitters, let's go Docker Model Runner Docker has been really busy lately. Meet Docker Model Runner: Run AI models with the tools you’re using today GPU acceleration on Apple Silicon Pull models as OCI Artifacts No extra setup, just dev Read...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about AI & Tech The Byte is back! After a bit of a hiatus I decided the relaunch The Byte. My goal is to keep the newsletter fresh, engaging, and byte sized. I'm open to feedback and ideas to help restart The Byte community. Happy Friday and let's Vibe Code into the weekend. Brian 💸 How I Saved $1,900 by Building My Own Learning Platform Tired of overpriced and overcomplicated course platforms, I decided to roll up my sleeves and build my own using Replit. The result? A...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech I took the above picture this morning (New Years Eve) of the moon setting behind the Swiss Alps and on 2020 (It pays to get up early). Watching the moon set really brings closure on 2020 on the ups and downs. As we close out 2020, we could focus on all the negatives but instead lets focus on the positives and start planning 2021! Happy New Years to you! Forget New Year's Resolutions and instead conduct a year in Review I have to dig this...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech It's time to Open Source everything The CentOs debacle has kicked off some great discussions. Including Chef Co-Founder Adam Jacob. A great article on how companies should open source their work and how important it is to "own" the upstream. How to write good documentation I cannot emphasis enough how important it is to right good documentation. It helps not only you but others in the future. I ensure I detail all my GitHub repos as much as...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech Rocky Linux set to replace CentOS This is why I love Open Source. Last week Red Hat, you know the ones that promote being the "Open Souce" company discontinued CentOS forcing people to go to their Enterprise Linux version. The announcement didn't go down well in the community. This week the original Co-Founder of CentOS Gregory Kurtzer steps up to reignite CentOS named Rocky. Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to...
over 4 years ago • 2 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech Is it still running A cool project pushing the boundaries on eliminating DevOps roles entirely. Jim Angel created an Auto Git-Ops deployment which performs unattended upgrades for Docker, kubelet, kubeadm, & kubectl. But that's not all. It publishes the results to the webisite https://isitstillrunning.com/ displaying the current health as well as previous and current versions of Kubernetes. This is the future folks! Apple, CloudFlare, and...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech Undelete a file overwritten with mv (Linux) An interesting investigation on what happens to files when you deleter or mv them. The article basically walks you through how to recover files by replaying a binary file back to the original file. Lesson learned. Backup your computer! UK Company used XSS vulnerability as company name Very clever. It appears the UK company register recently started accepting special characters in company names. Well...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech xip.io - Wildcard DNS Service A really cool service I discovered last week is xip.io made my the team from Basecamp. What is xip? It’s a free wild card domain for testing. For example, if your IP address locally is 10.10.10.1 you could add 10.10.10.1.xip.io will resolve to your IP address. Great little utility Shamless plug - My Traefik Course is on Sale for Black Friday OK, this newsletter as you noticed doesn't contain advertisements....
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech K0s the zero friction Kubernetes distribution Anything to make Kubernetes easier sounds promising. With the catchy tag line it sounds like running through pastures of green grass singing it's a beautiful life. But...I ask myself. What is the real difference between K0s and K3s besides the "3"? They are both super lightweight, single binary, and with everything you need baked in. I still need to test them side by side to really compare but the...
over 4 years ago • 1 min read
