© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. This guide demonstrates how to install and run a large language model (LLM) on your local workstation via Llama.cpp and, optionally, Open WebUI. There are many excellent models to choose from, but u…
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. This guide demonstrates how to convert reStructuredText (reST) files to Markdown, optionally including front-matter metadata in a Pelican context. The following tools (tap on them for the links) wer…
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. By pure chance one morning, I came across a post that mentioned PBZIP2. Having never heard of it, of course I had to look it up. Crikey. File this one under “Why Didn’t Someone Tell Me About This Ea…
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. While installing Python and Virtualenv on MacOS Ventura and Monterey can be done several ways, this tutorial will guide you through the process of configuring a stock Mac system into a solid Python
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. MacOS, formerly known as Mac OS X, can be made more powerful with command-line tools such as those available via Homebrew. This tutorial covers installing Homebrew and other useful initial configura…
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. I frequently find myself needing to search for a string across all files in the current project. Before I switched to Vim, I would use TextMate’s Find in Project… feature to do this, which is highly…
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. Remember when Internet service providers began redirecting requests for non-existent domains to their own ad-filled pages? Turns out they’ve upped their game. Even if you’ve switched your DNS settin…
© 2025 Justin Mayer. All rights reserved. NOTE: This guide was written for Lion 10.7 and has since been superceded by these new guides: Lion has done away with the “Sites” folder by default, but it’s easy to add it back — the custom icon wi…