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LLM Distillation Explained
How tiny 7B and 8B models keep punching above their weight, knowledge distillation, the teacher-student trick that makes local AI actually usable on home hardware.
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Rancher vs Podman vs Docker Desktop
Rancher Desktop, Podman Desktop, and Docker Desktop go head-to-head on cost, k8s, resource use, and real-world friction for local dev.
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SmokePing for Internet Connection Sanity
SmokePing turns your ISP no-issue-detected excuse into a documented lie. Set it up in Docker and get clear visual proof of latency spikes and packet loss.
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Garden vs Tilt vs Skaffold
Three inner-loop dev tools for Kubernetes, Garden, Tilt, and Skaffold. Which one actually makes K8s development bearable? Honest comparison, no fluff.
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Lima vs Multipass
VM-backed Linux dev environments on macOS/Linux, Lima vs Multipass compared on speed, container support, and resource use.
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Riemann: The Forgotten Event-Stream Monitor for Home Labs
Riemann processes events as streams, not time-series. Here is why that distinction matters and when Clojure-based stream alerting still beats Prometheus rules.
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Compose Watch: Faster Dev Loops
Docker Compose Watch syncs your code into running containers without rebuilds. Here's how to set it up and why your dev loop is about to get a lot less painful.
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Glances vs Netdata: Two Free-Tier Monitors Compared
Glances vs Netdata: which free monitor wins for your home lab? We compare install effort, UI quality, alerting, and when to ditch both for Prometheus.
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tini vs dumb-init vs --init
PID 1 zombie reaping in containers, tini, dumb-init, and docker --init compared; when each one fixes your signal handling and stops your 10s shutdown tax.
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Container Escape: How to Stop It
Containers are not VMs. Here are the real escape vectors, privileged mode, mounted sockets, kernel CVEs, and the runtime hardening that actually helps.
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ko vs Jib vs Buildpacks
Build container images without writing a single Dockerfile, ko for Go, Jib for Java, Paketo Buildpacks for everything else. Real benchmarks, real tradeoffs.
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Sentry Self-Hosted for Application Errors
Run Sentry on your own hardware to catch real application errors, stack traces, source maps, release tracking, alerts, and when you should just pay for SaaS.
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