Au Revoir for now

No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight for Brussels and this is my last day at work for a couple of weeks....

Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama

Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can, and it really depends on how you run Ollama and what your hardware is. Ollama...

RegEx Functions IV

Smart AI Agents and Data Security

Today Steve has concerns over AI security.

Finding Trailing Spaces

Today's AI

Are GenAI models getting better? Is today's model the worst one you'll use in the future? Steve has a few thoughts.

Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston

Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides – ArchitectingZeroDowntime.pptx Slides also at: https://dayofdata.org/2026-10-03-dayofdata1150/#schedule Code: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime Book: Refactoring Databases Some interesting questions. I’ll write...

Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows

After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the audience. I’m adding some of these into blogs, and this was one: How do I...

Development Is Fun

Today Steve asks whether you still enjoy your job.

Hyperscale Replicas III