Check linux ubuntu version
quick ubuntu and mint version check
To determine the Ubuntu version that your Linux Mint installation is based on, you can use several methods involving command-line tools and system files.
quick ubuntu and mint version check
To determine the Ubuntu version that your Linux Mint installation is based on, you can use several methods involving command-line tools and system files.
After setting upd the Gitea and Hugo on AWS S3...
The next step is to implement some CI/CD and setup Gitea Actions for Hugo website, to push website to AWS S3 automatically when master branch is updated.
Cursor AI vs GitHub Copilot vs Cline AI vs...
Will list here some AI-assisted coding tools and AI Coding Assistants and their nice sides.
Ollama on Intel CPU Efficient vs Performance cores
I’ve got a theory to test - if utilising ALL cores on Intel CPU would raise the speed of LLMs? This is bugging me that new gemma3 27 bit model (gemma3:27b, 17GB on ollama) is not fitting into 16GB VRAM of my GPU, and partially running on CPU.
Useful MinIO Commands
MinIO provides two standard UIs: (1) MinIO Console - That’s a web UI, and
(2) MinIO Command - this is a commandline util mc.
If you are maintaining legacy MinIO CE environments, pair this command reference with MinIO CE end of life in 2026 to plan migration and risk controls.
Overview and installing Minio
MinIO is an open-source, high-performance, distributed object storage system designed to be fully compatible with the Amazon S3 API.
Rearrange terminal windows right from the start
There are several ways to start a group of terminal tools in Linux Mint and have the terminal windows tiled, depending on your workflow and the level of automation you want.
Understand Ollama concurrency, queueing, and how to tune OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL for stable parallel requests.
This guide explains how Ollama handles parallel requests (concurrency, queuing, and resource limits), and how to tune it using the OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL environment variable (and related knobs).
A bit of system administration
Probably shoud call this platform engineering now. Here are some notes on how to install connect and remove the Portainer - docker images and containers manager UI.
some useful venv commands
Venv is a virtual environment management commandline tool. A much more simple one, comparing to Anaconda. Here are some useful venv commands.
When you quickly need some async happening in the cloud
Short comparison of the RabbitMQ on AWS EKS and AWS SQS
When you need to pull out image from a PDF file
Sometimes there is a real need to save images from a PDF without screenshotting or rendering the PDF on screen. pdfimages helps with that.
AI-assisted coding where you describe, not type
Vibe coding is an AI-driven programming approach where developers describe desired functionality in natural language and let AI tools generate the code automatically — with minimal direct writing.
Visual Studio Code Cheatsheet is here
Quickly have a look inside jwt token
Here are some effective methods for decoding and printing JWT tokens directly from the command line:
Encode and decode files to Base64 on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
This cheatsheet shows how to encode and decode files and strings to Base64 from the command line on Windows, Linux, and macOS — no extra tools required.