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Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags
OS Apps: Vikunja Task Managment

OS Apps: Vikunja Task Managment

Published Feb 20, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I was reading XDA the other day when I came across this guide for self-hosting Vikunja Task Management.

OpenWeb UI and Ollama WebUI

OpenWeb UI and Ollama WebUI

Published Feb 18, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I enjoy using LLMs to help augment my work and more often than not I use them in VS Code. However, there are times I would like to run a long query off on the side and keep my editor out of the pi...

GROQ with Llama, Continue.dev and DeepSeek R1

GROQ with Llama, Continue.dev and DeepSeek R1

Published Feb 13, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Groq started out way back in 2016 by some former Google Engineers as a company eager to build AI Hardware to rival GPU makers like NVidia. The focus lately on AI has seen them show off their hardw...

3D Printing of Github Skyline and AI Busts

3D Printing of Github Skyline and AI Busts

Published Feb 11, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

From the Github Blog I saw this post about they built the Github Skyline extension. It touches on the tool but is really more of a pitch of all the paid features of Github (Codespaces, Copilot, etc).

Azure AI with Continue.dev in Visual Studio Code

Azure AI with Continue.dev in Visual Studio Code

Published Feb 6, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today we will dig into Azure AI Foundry and specifically how to tie it to Continue.dev for use with Visual Studio Code. We will add some models including GPT 4 and a GPT 4o model for fine-tuning. ...

Cleanup: Gitea, K3s and more

Cleanup: Gitea, K3s and more

Published Feb 4, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today we have some clean ups to do. It started when I was trying to debug an issue with my Ingress controller and noticed that it was getting slammed with Gitea REST calls. Let’s dig into why tha...

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