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This is a fairly minimal blog with assorted tech posts. The main plan is to come back to these posts when I forget how to do something, but if you find it useful too, that's great. :)

Recent Posts

• AWS ECS Express Mode is a bit naff

  Posted on:2 July 2026  at 

  Why I had to ditch AWS's flagship way to 'easily' deploy containers

• Docker build caching in CI (for multi-stage builds)

  Posted on:1 July 2025  at 

  How and why to set up registry build caching in CI, with a GitLab example

• How Does Ollama's Structured Outputs Work?

  Posted on:9 December 2024  at 

  Digging into what Ollama is doing under the hood to produce structured outputs

• Relevant XKCD? - Testing Multimodal Retrieval

  Posted on:6 December 2024  at 

  Embedding XKCDs with nomic-embed-vision-v1.5 (and retrieving them with DuckDB)