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The experience of using Node.JS with TypeScript, ts-node, and ESM is horrible.

There are countless guides of how to integrate them, but none of them seem to work.

Here's what worked for me.

Just add the following files and run npm run dev. You'll be good to go!

`package.json`

4 Steps in Running LLaMA-7B on a M1 MacBook

The large language models usability

The problem with large language models is that you can’t run these locally on your laptop. Thanks to Georgi Gerganov and his llama.cpp project, it is now possible to run Meta’s LLaMA on a single computer without a dedicated GPU.

Running LLaMA

There are multiple steps involved in running LLaMA locally on a M1 Mac after downloading the model weights.

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation

Story: Writing Scripts with Go

This is a story about how I tried to use Go for scripting. In this story, I’ll discuss the need for a Go script, how we would expect it to behave and the possible implementations; During the discussion I’ll deep dive to scripts, shells, and shebangs. Finally, we’ll discuss solutions that will make Go scripts work.

Why Go is good for scripting?

While python and bash are popular scripting languages, C, C++ and Java are not used for scripts at all, and some languages are somewhere in between.

Downloading Shared Files on Google Drive Using Curl

When the shared files on Google Drive is downloaded, it is necessary to change the download method by the file size. The boundary of file size when the method is changed is about 40MB.

File size < 40MB

CURL

filename="### filename ###"
fileid="### file ID ###"
curl -L -o ${filename} "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&amp;id=${fileid}"

	-- Based off IETF draft, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format/

	create or replace function uuid_generate_v7()
	returns uuid
	as $$
	begin
	-- use random v4 uuid as starting point (which has the same variant we need)
	-- then overlay timestamp
	-- then set version 7 by flipping the 2 and 1 bit in the version 4 string
	return encode(

	# Install Ubiquiti Unifi Controller on Ubuntu 20.04.
	# As tested on a fresh install of ubuntu-20.04.1-live-server, August 22nd 2020.
	# Thanks to https://gist.github.com/tmuncks for posting the updated install steps.

	sudo apt update
	sudo apt install --yes apt-transport-https

	echo 'deb https://www.ui.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti' \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt-unifi.list
	sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/unifi-repo.gpg https://dl.ui.com/unifi/unifi-repo.gpg

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# Port of https://github.com/tj/node-prune to bash
	# Also,
	# - fixed "*.ts" being overzealous and killing .d.ts files
	# - added some more file types from https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5264#issuecomment-259800486
	#
	# See also:
	# - https://github.com/timoxley/cruft
	# - https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/autoclean
	# - https://github.com/ModClean/modclean