One thing I’ve missed in Windows post my switch from Linux is the ability to create aliases for commands. In Linux, you can create an alias for a command by adding the following line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file - alias ll='ls -l' This would allow you to use ll instead of ls -l in your terminal. In Windows, you can create a similar alias by creating a batch file and adding it to your PATH environment variable. ...
One of the most sought after things to learn right now is about how to set up your own local LLM server and how to use LLM models locally. With the arrival of some things like Ollama and LM Studio etc, it has become very easy. Ollama is an orchestrator that lets you serve up models locally, models like Llama 3.1, Qwen-2.5, Phi, whatever models you have on HuggingFace. These are available to be served up and many more. ...
Now, why do this? What’s wrong with Medium and Substack and Blogger and Wordpress and all the tens of websites out there? Nothing. You could totally just create a blog there and publish. That’s why Content Management Systems exist - so you could focus on the content and not on the management . But if you’re like me and want some more control over how you publish your blogs, customize them etc. , you will find this and the other upcoming articles in this category interesting. ...
Installing Postgres locally and connecting to it from Python First of all, what is Postgres and why do I care? Over the course of our working with data, we come across a lot of ways of storing data - cache, in-mem, files, file based databases, SQL databases, NoSQL databases etc. Each option has a specific set of usecases that are best satisfied by said storage mechanism. Postgres DB is one such storage mechanism - specifically an Open Source, Relational Database. ...
What is FFmpeg? In their own words, FFmpeg is “A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.” I’ve been recording Bangpypers videos for the last few months and I haven’t really had access to a proper solution to edit videos and audio that I could have got for free/ low-cost. A good friend of mine, Vinay Keerthi, (who incidentally presented the webinar under discussion) told me to chuck GUI based fronts for editing them and told me to try FFmpeg, the CLI tool directly, which these tools probably use in the background anyway. ...
I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 on this machine, so that’s what the steps of installation here will be for. But this installation shouldn’t largely vary on any distro that’s 14.04 and higher. Step 1 - Download Python source code Binary installations are available for Windows and Mac but you can either install Python3.8 on Ubuntu using “apt” or download and install from source. I did the latter. Obtain the gz file from here. ...
A guide to installing a newer version of Python is available here. We at Bangpypers conduct a lot of workshops and some steps are common for all of them. To that end, this post is meant to serve as guide for people to install Python on Ubuntu and Windows (if required), setting up virtualenv and installing the package(s) germane to the corresponding Workshop. Ubuntu Check your existing version of Python to see if you already have what’s required. ...