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Build the Mock First: A Better Way to Work with Agentic AI
Using agentic AI responsibly means protecting production from the mistakes agents make. Have it rebuild the entire environment from requirements in the lab, test it end to end, and hand a human the deployment. A field note from a government hosting team.
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Private AI: The Case for Keeping Your Data Off Someone Else's Servers
Every prompt you send to a cloud AI is copied, retained, and read under policies you don't control. What actually happens to your data — and what you get back by running models on your own hardware.
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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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