How to get an alert whenever a hosts stops sending metrics to Grafana? Here I explain how we do it, why we do it and that we cannot use up.

I finally had some time to play around with Nix - the immutable package manager and build system. This was on my agenda since a long time, but I finally took the plunge on my M1 OSX system. I by no means understand Nix fully yet, but making progress and it is usable to me already.

With the following script, you can run yet another large language model, namely GPT4All, locally on your command line.

Nats.io JetStream replace HTTP POST calls and a local database in our latest in-house tool, and it make life so easy.

Whisper.cpp is a C++ based, performant implementation. I want to share a small shell script to use it locally.

I share my experience applying it to our German podcasts. All podcasts are transcribed, each required some manual work, but still, I'm happy with the result.

How can we determine the best talk? Is it even possible? What is good and what is bad and what is best lies in the eyes of each and every one of us.

Treffen sich zwei ChatGPT im Park und unterhalten sich. Geht das? Was kommt dabei raus, wenn ChatGPT mit sich selbst chattet? Das wollte ich mal ausprobieren, und hier ist das Ergebnis. Spoiler: das Gesprächsthema wurde schnell etwas einseitig.

SPX is a profiling extension for PHP that allows you to profile your PHP scripts and get detailed insights into their performance. It differentiates itself from other similar extensions by being totally free, simple to use, and capable of collecting a wide range of metrics. With SPX, you can easily profile your sc

Here we use another dedicated AI for speaker diarization (when is who speaking?). Whisper still takes care of the transcription.

During the development I come in contact with a number of passwords. Here are best practices to protect passwords from leaking.

In Folge 46 des Sandpapiers unterhalten sich Theo, Florian und Tobias über Qualitätsverbesserungen. Was haben wir im vergangenen Jahr verändert, welche Experimente haben wir gestartet und was haben wir daraus gelernt?

If you can only deploy your main branch and you have to rollback: how do you revert without force-pushes. Here is one way to do it.

How to make your private packages available across your projects

Today I transcribed the start of our latest podcast with OpenAI/Whisper and the result is nothing short of amazing. Our podcast is not an audio book. It is a live discussion between two native speakers. The result looks very, very good.

Zu diesem Thema haben wir uns im Rahmen eines Wochenrückblicks Prof. Andreas Deitmer eingeladen.

Um einen Überblick über eine Software System zu vermitteln, wird häufig auf Schichten zurückgegriffen. Sandstorm Dependency Analysis (kurz sda) ist ein Open-Source CLI Tool um die Top-Level Struktur im Quellcode darzustellen und zu überwachen.

Bin ich auf dem richtigen Server? Teil 2

Here is my highly opinionated list of resources to learn development concepts “beyond if-else” applicable to multiple programming languages.

With docker-slim I reduced the size of my Docker image from 998MB to 92MB. Here I describe how to do that.

I've just recently stumbled over a composer configuration which changed my life (for the better): preferred-install source.

On one of our sites where we employ "classical" deployment (without docker containers), we have found weird problems related to the deployment: Sometimes, the updated markup was not delivered by the server, but the server was still delivering the old markup. This story is a deep-dive of what we found, what we learned and how we finally fixed it. In the end, it's just a tiny NGINX configuration change ;-)

I want to share my experience with the open-source photo gallery HomeGallery suitable to host tens of thousands of photos on a Raspberry Pi for access with different screen-sizes (desktop computers and smartphone). I absolutely love it! The UI concept and the performance are great.