veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

agmm

⚠️ To prevent data loss make sure you understand how rclone sync and rclone copy work.

How to sync Obsidian Notes on iOS

1. Download iSH from the AppStore

2. Open iSH and install rclone and nano with the following command:

apk add rclone nano

kaaquist

Podman with docker-compose on MacOS.

Podman an alternative to Docker Desktop on MacOS

Getting podman installed and started is super easy.
Just use brew to install it.

> brew install podman

Now since podman uses a VM just like the Docker Client on MacOS we need to initialize that and start it.

mgibas

Wildcard DNS in localhost development

• install dnsmasq

$ brew install dnsmasq

• edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

address=/localhost/127.0.0.1

• Add localhost resolver

vancluever

Run SSH Agent w/Modified Options (MacOS Big Sur, No Homebrew, No SIP Modification)

The following will show you how you can modify the startup options of the SSH agent supplied by MacOS in a non-invasive way. This can be useful for doing things like setting a key lifetime, which can then be used with AddKeysToAgent in your ~/.ssh/config to automate the timing out of saved keys. This ensures that your passphrase is re-asked for periodically without having to shutdown, re-log, or having it actually persisted in keychain, the latter being almost as bad as having no passphrase at all, given that simply being logged in is generally enough to then use the key.

This method does not modify the system-installed SSH agent service (com.openssh.ssh-agent), but rather duplicates its functionality into a user-installed launch agent where we can then modify the options. Modifying the system-installed service is becoming increasingly harder to do; SIP generally protects

sindresorhus

Pure ESM package

The package that linked you here is now pure ESM. It cannot be require()'d from CommonJS.

This means you have the following choices:

1. Use ESM yourself. (preferred)
   Use import foo from 'foo' instead of const foo = require('foo') to import the package. You also need to put "type": "module" in your package.json and more. Follow the below guide.
2. If the package is used in an async context, you could use await import(…) from CommonJS instead of require(…).
3. Stay on the existing version of the package until you can move to ESM.

thefranke

The RSS Endpoint List

Please refer to this blogpost to get an overview.

Replace *-INSTANCE with one of the public instances listed in the scrapers section. Replace CAPITALIZED words with their corresponding identifiers on the website.

Social Media

Twitter

justinmeiners

READ HERE

veggiemonk

Resources

KUBERNETES CLUSTER

• local https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind (or just use minikube if it works for you)
• cloud https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine (for PersistentVolume and Ingress, I needed to try the real deal)
• practice environment: https://github.com/arush-sal/cka-practice-environment

PRACTICE

threepointone

https://twitter.com/snookca/status/1073299331262889984?s=21

‪“‬In what way is JS any more maintainable than CSS? How does writing CSS in JS make it any more maintainable?”

‪Happy to chat about this. There’s an obvious disclaimer that there’s a cost to css-in-js solutions, but that cost is paid specifically for the benefits it brings; as such it’s useful for some usecases, and not meant as a replacement for all workflows. ‬

‪(These conversations always get heated on twitter, so please believe that I’m here to converse, not to convince. In return, I promise to listen to you too and change my opinions; I’ve had mad respect for you for years and would consider your feedback a gift. Also, some of the stuff I’m writing might seem obvious to you; I’m not trying to tell you if all people of some of the details, but it might be useful to someone else who bumps into this who doesn’t have context)‬

So the big deal about css-in-js (cij) is selectors.