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I covered my thoughts around LLM usage in Part I.

Starting out with “AI” Since early 2025, I have been curious on the impact of “AI” in my job and started introducing a Large Language Model [LLM] into my workflow.

I’ve been using Gitlab for a good few years now, and I can honestly say they’ve nailed it.

Let me set the scene.

Let me set the scene… At the time of writing this, I’d have been writing code for a little over two decades.

Having been in software engineering for around 15 years, there’s been a lot of talk around Friday deployments - in that you should be able to do them without worries.

Growing up, I found focusing a real struggle.

Working with linux over the past few years has been fun but it certainly comes with it’s frustrations.

Over the weekend I updated my favourite rolling release of my Linux distro, Solus-Project.

This is part two of a series.

Prelude The past year has been a roller-coaster - for me at least… Back in September 2019, I was promoted to “Lead Software Engineer”.

What is Rancher?

My pipeline This is a continued post from Creating a CI & CD pipeline with GitLab, Rancher and Digital Ocean.

Setting the scene Over the past 2 years I’ve been working at First Utility and in that time I have worked with an awesome team - which, in turn has allowed me to pick up a lot of useful methods and learn some pretty amazing stuff.

I am using: HP MicroServer Gen 8 Ubuntu Server A laptop with Linux installed as my local machine (This means that I can only provide Linux commands and software that I will be using) My HP MicroServer 8GB Ram Intel Celeron Processor (2 core) 1x 320 HDD 2x…

There is no simpler way to say this, but thank you.

tl;dr People are shit at being people.

The problem There is nothing more time consuming than typing: → ssh <user>@<ip-address/hostname> <user>@<ip-address/hostname>'s password: - or - → ssh -i /some/path/to/my/ssh/key <user>@<ip-address/hostname> Seriously, do this multiple times a day, with t…

I am working from Linux, please submit a pull request to add instructions for Windows/Mac First thing is first, download the iso you want to use as a live disk.

Editing the latest commit: Important The following tip is about changing previous commits.

Thank you This is simply a thank you to people, who have got me to where I am today, and are part of the PHP, HTML, CSS and other communities.

Preface I have now been a Mac OS user for around 8 years now.

This is something I touched on briefly in my last post, ‘Coming of age as a php developer’, but it is something I would like to extend on.

Back in 2009, I was fortunate to find an advert in the paper for a junior PHP developer.

Self management Why I have written this post Since moving from a hobby developer with the most basic of HTML knowledge since school, I have set targets on improvement of my knowledge within programming.

Setting up Git Installing Git There are few ways to install Git on a mac (I will eventually add guides on Windows and Linux).

So, this is just a quick hello and to say thank’s for visiting.