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My Adventures Running Large Language Models Locally
Quantization, Ollama quirks, and the patience tax of running a 27-billion-parameter model on your own hardware.
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Red Flags to Watch for When Hiring a Contractor in Simcoe County
From big upfront payments to missing local addresses — the warning signs every homeowner should spot before signing a contract.
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Why Hiring a Trusted Local Contractor Matters for Your Simcoe County Project
Local reputation, accountability, and community knowledge make trusted nearby contractors worth finding — here's how to choose well.
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Introducing Simcoe Trades Journal - Showcasing Local Craftsmanship
Announcing a new resource connecting Simcoe County homeowners with verified local trades and real project stories.
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Using Azure Traffic Manager With Your Apex/Root Domain Record is Possible With CloudFlare
Azure Traffic Manager needs a CNAME, which apex records can't have — CloudFlare's CNAME flattening works around that limit.
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Docker and why I’m using it
Containers solved my dependency sprawl and "works on my machine" headaches — an early look at what Docker changed for me.
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Deploying with Inploy - An alternative to Capistrano
A lighter-weight Ruby deployment tool that skips Capistrano's ceremony — setup notes and where it fits.
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Rails on Ubuntu 10.04: Passenger, Nginx, MySQL, Varnish
A full production Rails stack on Ubuntu 10.04 — Passenger + Nginx app servers behind Varnish caching, step by step.
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Migrating to Google Apps from cPanel
Moving email and collaboration off a cPanel host onto Google Apps — DNS changes, gotchas, and lessons learned.
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Rails 3 on AWS micro: CentOS Nginx Passenger
Getting Rails 3 running on an AWS micro instance with CentOS, Nginx, and Passenger — including memory-tuning tricks.
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