Dan Clayton's BlogA simple software blog.https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/Docker build caching in CI (for multi-stage builds)https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/gitlab-ci-docker-build-caching/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/gitlab-ci-docker-build-caching/How and why to set up registry build caching in CI, with a GitLab exampleTue, 01 Jul 2025 17:00:00 GMTHow Does Ollama's Structured Outputs Work?https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/ollama-structured-outputs/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/ollama-structured-outputs/Digging into what Ollama is doing under the hood to produce structured outputsMon, 09 Dec 2024 17:15:00 GMTRelevant XKCD? - Testing Multimodal Retrievalhttps://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/relevant-xkcd-multimodal-retrieval/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/relevant-xkcd-multimodal-retrieval/Embedding XKCDs with nomic-embed-vision-v1.5 (and retrieving them with DuckDB)Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:30:00 GMTPreventing Overlapping Data in PostgreSQL - What Goes Into an Exclusion Constrainthttps://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/overlapping-data-postgres-exclusion-constraints/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/overlapping-data-postgres-exclusion-constraints/How can you prevent overlapping date ranges? Exclusion constraints do it at the database layerSun, 20 Oct 2024 17:30:00 GMTQuick CSV to SQLite with DuckDBhttps://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/csv-to-sqlite-with-duckdb/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/csv-to-sqlite-with-duckdb/Quickly creating SQLite databases with DuckDB, without writing schemasMon, 30 Sep 2024 17:45:00 GMTPsycopg Database Connections with FastAPIhttps://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/database-connections-with-fastapi/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/database-connections-with-fastapi/Sharing database connections between requests with FastAPISun, 28 Jul 2024 17:30:00 GMTRefactoring list logic using Python setshttps://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/refactoring-list-logic-with-python-sets/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/refactoring-list-logic-with-python-sets/Replacing loops and ifs with Python sets for a speedup and better readability.Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:00:00 GMTStarting a new Python project - an opinionated starter guidehttps://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/starting-a-new-python-project/https://blog.danielclayton.co.uk/posts/starting-a-new-python-project/An opinionated mini-guide to setup a new Python project from scratch with *most* of the tooling you will need.Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:30:00 GMT