Kothar Labs

My grocery purchase history from online orders over the last few years is sitting in a database, ready for analysis with an LLM - but getting it there turned into a surprisingly interesting journey through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

If you contribute to both internal and client Git repositories - or juggle multiple client projects - keeping your commit authors and SSH credentials in order can get messy fast.

A new build of CSView is available for Windows.

CSView 2.0 Beta for MacOS is now available on TestFlight.

A new build of CSView is available, and it now supports Apple Silicon Macs (i.e.

CSView 2.0 Alpha 1 for MacOS is now available for download!

With the release of macOS Catalina (10.15) there have been some changes to the way software needs to be signed.

Having seen Peter Bourgon’s post on multipart http responses come up in the Golang Weekly newsletter, I thought I would write some notes on a related problem I was looking at recently: how to stream a multipart upload to a remote HTTP server.

While playing about with ideas for generic types in Go, I have come up with what I’m calling a ‘Generic Adapter’.

After my earlier experiments with B2, I had an extremely interesting call with Backblaze about B2 features and performance.

I’ve been implementing a Go client library for the Backblaze B2 cloud storage service: go-backblaze.

UPDATE: Ditto - the successor to this tool - has now been launched.

I’ve been trying out a number of file sync clients recently, finding that many are trying to solve the same problem and meeting with varying success.

I’ve been experimenting with the Plex Media Server, and decided to have a go at securing remote access to the ‘Web Client’ interface using SSL (by default it runs over an unencrypted HTTP connection).

I’m a co-author on a paper which was presented at RTNS this year.

I needed to use Disqus from a GWT app, so I needed to solve the problem of loading threads on demand as virtual pages in the app were changed.

Now that Spotify has discontinued the free account, and restricted me to an ‘open’ account with only 10 hours of music a month, I’ve ended up paying for an ‘unlimited’ account.

I was doing some reading a while back into lock-free algorithms for multi-threaded communication using buffers.

After struggling all morning to find or compile a mail notification applet that supports TLS encryption under Ubuntu, I finally read all the way to the end of the Launchpad bug for mail-notifier ( all 119 comments) and found David Jurenka’s time-saving PPA

I use Java a lot, and the common practice of naming java packages with long URI-derived namespaces often leads to my bash prompt becoming extremely long.

I’ve released a new version of Javada today - just a maintenance fix, after an email request for a pre-compiled version.

I’ve been experimenting with PolyORB at work, and the documentation, while fine for configuring and compiling your application, is sorely lacking on any help with implementing your CORBA servants.