Steve Barker

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.

Use a gaming PC as a Google Gemma 4 LLM server 2 min read →

Ho Chi Minh City Temple

April 2025

Ho Chi Minh City Temple 1 min read →

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.

Import your old MP3 music collection into your Spotify library, and stream it anywhere 2 min read →

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.