As you might know, I have a server affectionately known as HAL that serves as the backbone for everything that goes on in my home and in my development. I have a full docker environment will a couple dozen containers that provide numerous services for the home and for my playtime. When local LLMs started...
It happens all of the time: you need to get at a piece of data that lives in some data store. Maybe it is last month's sales numbers, or you need to find out which sales person sold the most widgets yesterday. But how to get at this data? Do you really want to have...
I have been using Cloudflare for a while to expose my local apps to the internet. In recent months, they created an offering that allows users to host MCP Servers to the cloud. I'll have some of that, thank you. Step 1: Get the starter Code You can deploy the code right from the Cloudflare...
I originally started with a FastMCP course, but that seemed a bit much. The MCP part of it is actually pretty easy, so I thought I would do that quickly and then move to the harder stuff (deploying to the cloud and securing it). I'll get back to FastMCP later. I loosely followed this course: ...
As you may know, watching (and reviewing!) movies is one of my favorite things to do. A while back I had made a local movie recommender script that I had been using every now and then when I wanted to find a new movie to watch. There is a writeup of that script in my...
I have been eagerly looking forward to adding this to my toolbox. Udemy course: https://netrix.udemy.com/course/model-context-protocol My notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1awACmckTk4gm7Ei65pHUg6dTXUwEw9tt7rtGLpodmMo/edit?usp=sharing
The vast, vast majority of my RAG work has been with unstructured data. I wanted to mix in some structured data so I took this course. Udemy course: https://www.udemy.com/course/knowledge-graphs-rag My notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H09vOeLs8wYiJcSFAuZC8XxMKBXKLHxQtJYMbP8wCdc/edit?usp=sharing The course was a good refresher - I remembered more than I thought I did. I did learn of a neat tool for...
It occurred to me that I sometimes fall into the trap that many data scientists fall into: I love data and making models, but at the end of the day, we (often) make things for users. It was time to get back to that and level up my UI game. Udemy course #1: https://netrix.udemy.com/course/ai-sales-forecasting-market-analysis/ My...
