Russell Ballestrini

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If you run a Phoenix project on Ubuntu 24.04, you've seen these: warning: the dependency :swoosh requires Elixir "~> 1.16" but you are running on v1.14.0 warning: the dependency :ecto_sqlite3 requires Elixir "~> 1.15" but you are running on v1.14.0 warnin…

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We published three whitepapers.

Every README starts with a lie.

I fell in love with Jason on a Tuesday.

Free agent looking for work.

Two identical Ubuntu 24.04.2 boxes, both running ML workloads on NVIDIA GPUs.

YAML Logo After 10 years or 10,000 hours, most SRE & DevOps practitioners are YAML expert witnesses.

We just harvested uncloseai: Machine Learning Inference Client Reference Manual. 454 pages. 58 implementations across languages. 5 days from seed to harvest (October 11-16, 2025).

The companion pelican-svbhack theme repo lives here.

The full webwords implementations have proper error handling, logging, and structure.

So you ran make build-all on webwords and now your root filesystem is 100% full.

The companion webwords git repo lives here.

Overview The Godot engine is a powerful, open-source game engine that competes with commercial alternatives like Unity and Unreal.

Resources and Community MultiMower Repository: https://gitlab.com/luckeyproductions/games/MultiMower Dry Engine: https://gitlab.com/luckeyproductions/dry Dry Engine Documentation: Available in the Dry repository Quick Start Summary For experienced develop…

Introducing SLOP: A Simple Language Open Protocol for Machine Learning Interaction This post introduces the SLOP project, a community-driven effort to standardize Machine Learning API interactions.

Note This post is a follow-up to our original post published on 2024-10-21.

Hey all I created ai.unturf.com and uncloseai.js over the past two weeks & this post introduces them to make Machine Learning more accessible to everyone.

Important: In my research so far, nobody seems to have a definite answer for how many unique non-overlapping battleship configurations there truely are...

As a developer exploring the capabilities of Elixir and Phoenix, I recently conducted a performance experiment using a community-driven OpenAI client.

As a seasoned Python developer, I've always appreciated the versatility and power of Python.

This tutorial demonstrates enhancing Dry's Sample Chat Game by integrating OpenAI's language models, enabling the game to provide intelligent, Machine Learning-driven responses to user queries.

Running Docker containers on a server with limited memory can lead to out-of-memory (OOM) issues, which can disrupt services and lead to downtime.

In today's post, we're examining the pause functionality of the LucKey Park game code, which is built on the 'Dry' engine.

This guide will walk you through installing YaCy on Ubuntu.

In this guide, we'll explore how to compile the 'Dry' game engine and the 'Park' game from source on Fedora Linux with debugging enabled.

letsencrypt certbot is now installable via snap (the deb apt repository is no longer maintained). alternatively you can use certbot via docker if you plan to use the certonly mode.

Imagine your uncle just dropped off a TrueNAS Core server with root credentials, & a preconfigured IP Address in the subnet space of 192.168.1.1/24.

Today's essay acts as a power-up love story for the underdog.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, Everyone!

We GROW with Truth, Freedom, Love.

tl;dr if you just want something like aws s3 cp cli, try gsutil rsync.

Ok, so a month ago I changed employment and the new company uses GitLab exclusively for centralized code version control system.

Chronicles of a washed up systems administrator.

Unlimited computer storage capacity is a common science fiction trope and fun thought experiment.

This issue blocked me for about two days and prevented me from collaborating with another engineer at gumyum co-operative video game studio.

try to log in as root locally, I needed to press ctrl-alt-f7 to get to a log in prompt.

Russell, why are you installing Unity?

A pre-signed request grants a semi-trusted user temporary access to a private resource.

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Recently at work I transitioned our fleet from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Each holiday season I find myself drawn to a side passion of mine.

Five months ago during my preparation and ramp up to gardening season, I started thinking about what it would be like to have a partner, a side kick, a secretary to keep me honest and on task.

tl;dr use a custom entrypoint in your CircleCI 2.0 config to limit Java memory to 1G.

So I've struggled for a while with the best way to properly setup a console script for my SQLAlchemy Pyramid apps.

For a long time I have put off DKIM signing email sent from my web services because I couldn't wrap my head around all the indirection Postfix requires to make it work.

Ever since I was an 8 year old boy I have wanted solar.

"I work from home" — a phrase I have uttered hundreds of times and is often met with instant amazement, envy, or jokes about pants.