Open Source - Chris Kirby

depiction of a joyful engineer on the left and a frustrated engineer on the right

Artificial Intelligence

The Joy and Agony of Building with AI Agents

I'm increasingly leveraging agentic AI tools—tools you can now interact with and act on your behalf directly inside your code editor. Let's talk about how to use, and not use, these incredible tools to be more productive and write code you would be proud to ship.

Artificial Intelligence

Add free private AI chat to your HomeLab with Ollama and Open WebUI

Deploy local AI Chat that is actually good, fast, and comparable to paid using metal you already own, no subscription required. We'll use Open WebUI as our ChatGPT like interface and Ollama as our local model runner. We'll integrate with premium online cloud models too!

image of an assembly line, where pi-hole is going in and ad guard is coming out, so simulate conversion

Homelab

Migrating from Pi-hole to AdGuard home, with some upgrades along the way

I'll walk you through quickly migrating your Pi-hole configuration, including ad lists, whitelists, and custom DNS, to AdGuard home. Improving performance along with enabling TLS encryption, DoH, DOT, and deployment to Kubernetes

Homelab

Setting up and leveling up your HomeLab - a comprehensive guide

I'm writing this homelab guide to share some of the things I've learned, so if you're starting out or looking for what to do next, perhaps you can grab an idea or two for your setup. I would always advise starting small, getting comfortable, and then deciding if you are ready for more.

Code

Migrate an existing repository from Subversion to Git on Windows with history intact

To continue my quest of converting from CVCS to git, I figured I would do a short write-up on my recent experience with converting from Subversion in a Windows environment.

Craft Beer

Kegbot and the dream of merging beer with technology

I love beer! And because of the love affair, I've had a kegerator in my home for over a decade. I still love and enjoy bottles of my favorite brews, but there is nothing like pouring yourself a beer right from your stainless tap.

DevOps

Use Raygun error tracking with your Debug and Trace code

As we all know, exception handling is critical to every application's success. It's not a matter of if something goes wrong, it's how and when. However, it's one thing to trap an exception and another to get that information into an actionable format.

Git

Migrate an existing project from TFS to Git with changeset history intact

When I started searching on the topic of moving from my 2-year-old TFS repository on visualstudio.com over to a new git repository, I was mentally preparing myself for a struggle.

Code

Automate Nuget pack and push using Grunt and Node.js

Automation is fun, even when it's simple. If it makes sense, I try to automate as much as possible in my professional and personal life.

Open Source

Recent Bootstrap and Metro UI package updates

Twitter.Bootstrap.Less updated to the latest source and published on 11/13/2013. Full changelog on the Bootstrap blog.

Code

Bootstrap NuGet package moving to Outercurve

As of v3.0.1.1, the Twitter.Bootstrap package will begin redirecting users to the Bootstrap package managed by the Outercurve foundation.