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Ubuntu's Popularity Over the Years

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

With the highly anticipated new release of Ubuntu due out later this week (26.04 LTS), it’s a good moment to review the landscape of Linux distributions and ask: “is it the right operating system for me?”

I have been using Linux Ubuntu as my primary operating system (OS) for more than 15 years and it’s fair to say, I’m hooked! My enjoyment of and productivity using Ubuntu goes far deeper than it’s free and it has a great window management, though these are key benefits.

XKCD Finder

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

XKCD comics have become a cornerstone of internet culture, particularly in technical circles, with their witty takes on science, programming, and mathematics. However, finding the perfect XKCD for a particular topic or reference can be challenging - there are now over 3,000 comics in the archive, and traditional search methods rely heavily on exact keyword matches or remembering specific comic numbers.

This project explores how modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can be used to search XKCD comics semantically, understanding the underlying meaning rather than just matching keywords. By applying vector embeddings and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to comic descriptions, we can now perform a search based on concepts, themes, and abstract ideas.

Parallellm Pump

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Large Language Model (LLM) tools, such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, have become a key part of people’s workflow, in professional and everyday usage. However, there are dozens of different providers now offering a myriad of options all at different price points; even a single provider has a multitude of models to choose from.

So where do you begin? The Parallellm Pump offers developers a power tool for making response comparisons, asynchronously, to let you be the judge of which provider returns the best result. Still not sure? You can even ask the LLMs themselves to make the decision for you!