Running large language models locally has become surprisingly practical on Apple Silicon. With a modern Mac, Ollama, and a carefully quantized GGUF model, it is possible to run models that only a short time ago …
Read more →The Italian electricity market produces an enormous amount of data every day: hourly prices by zone, traded volumes, liquidity, the PUN (Prezzo Unico Nazionale — the national single price). Essential data for traders, energy analysts, industry journalists, and companies operating …
Read more →OK. We've all been there. You're setting up a new microservice, you need a database connection string, a Keycloak client secret, an OCIR auth token — and before you know it, you're copy-pasting credentials into a .tfvars file and telling yourself "I'll fix this later".
Later never comes. Until it does …
Read more →Hello, dear citizen of the free world. I’m writing while I’m in a restricted lifestyle. On Monday night Italy’s prime minister decided that the entire country would be covered by restrictions that can be summarised as follows:
“I stay at home”
All travel was banned unless justified …
Read more →On September 24th I will ride in the Distinguished Gentlemen Ride
This is me an my bike at a recent Ducati Scrambler event
As a rider of a stylish Ducati Scrambler, I will join my local chapter of the DGR. It is a retro-themed …
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