Steve Barker

Hi I'm Steve, a developer from London, UK. I'm currently Exec Director of Technology at Steplab helping schools become their best.

Latest posts

Use a gaming PC as a Google Gemma 4 LLM server

I can use my gaming rig (with an RTX 5070 Ti) as a dedicated local LLM server for AI-assisted coding.

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Import your old MP3 music collection into your Spotify library, and stream it anywhere

This is a guide for importing music files into Spotify, or any of the other major music streaming services. To be clear, I'm talking about reading your MP3s, and constructing a playlist in Spotify, not streaming the actual files themselves.

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Donation of the month: Ghost

For September, I'd like to highlight Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

Running Flower on AWS ECS for Celery Monitoring

A guide for running Flower for Celery in production, using AWS ECS.

Donation of the month: Coolify. Open source Vercel alternative

August's donation is for Coolify, which is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

Open source of the month: peewee ORM - A small, expressive Python ORM.

Peewee is a lightweight and straightforward ORM that is both easy to learn and intuitive to use. It features a small set of expressive concepts, which simplifies the learning curve without sacrificing functionality.