Git Automation
Some of you may have read my Git Battles post, where I talked about how I developed and a documented a Git workflow.
让博客重新活起来
自从我开了这个博客又把它搁置，已经过去好一阵子了。上一篇文章居然还是 2024 年 6 月写的！！
我决定重新开始写博客。为什么呢？我住在一间地下室公寓里，和我的猫 Felix 作伴。我平时经常写代码、参加在线课程，但与人面对面交流的机会实在少得可怜。写这个博客，也算是向世界、朋友和家人报个平安，告诉大家我还好好地活着。
所以，Hello World！！！ :) 我还在这里。
2026
My blog in Simplified Chinese
I recently built MyCount to track website visitors to my projects. I found that that over 40% of my visitors were from China, and that 35% of those used a Ch...
MyCount: Website Analytics & Marketing
I have a future project in mind which will require a Dynamic DNS service. I created BMDynIP for that purpose. After building the service, I wanted a simple a...
DiskHA - Disk Replication, Health Checks, and Email Alerting
I run an NFS server on my network. I use two large drives and a cron job to rsync the data to provide basic data protection. This solution will not save you ...
Animating Ax3l Playing Snake
I’ve been tinkering with various incarnations of Patrick Loeber’s Train an AI to Play Snake tutorial for a while now. It’s my relaxing goto project that’s fu...
Dynamic DNS Service
This project started as a cron job and a flatfile and -honestly- that would work perfectly well for a small home setup. Say, two or three machines. I’m curre...
Local GeoIP Database
The Bear & Moose GeoIP Project provides an easy-to-use GeoIP service for your applications and for interactive lookups.
An LLM to organize my Movies
Our first TV was a small black-and-white thing where, on rare occasions, we’d watch Animal Kingdom. Then Beta and VHS came along, and you could watch them at...
From Prototype to Product (4/4)
Fr3d worked: It could talk to the Snake Lab, propose changes to the RNN configuration, run experiments, look at the results, and try again. It proved the ide...
Prompt Engineering 101 (3/4)
The Snake Lab had become a proper server, with a ZeroMQ API, configuration validation, a database, and a way to run experiments independently of the client. ...
The Evolution of Snake Lab (2/4)
In my last post, I setup a locally hosted LLM running on an old HP Z440 and wrote a crude little conversation loop. I generated random numbers, fed them to t...
Local LLM Writes Haikus (1/4)
This is part one of a four part blog series. In this post, I download, install and setup some software to prompt a local LLM to write haikus…
From Seed to Signal: AI FX
In the first post, AI FX was still mostly a seed: a repo, a PyPI package, and an idea about using automated FOREX tooling as a learning lab. Since then, the ...
Simulating the Power Grid
A potential client pointed me to Empowering the Energy Transition Through Fast and Flexible Network Simulation. The article describes an Open Source project,...
Delphi in a Day
I have a prospective client who runs a small group of technology businesses, at least one of which integrates with clients using the Delphi programming lan...
A Small Experiment: AI FX
I’ve spent some time around trading systemsL At Merrill Lynch, I supported the Order Audit Trail System (OATS), a compliance system required by NASDAQ. Its p...
A Rosebud from the Guppies
A Rosebud, a Few Guppies, and a Quiet Little Ecosystem
2025
My Art on Etsy
I setup an Etsy Storefront to sell high quality, museum grade prints of some of my artwork.
Python systemctl Wrapper
I’ve been working on Db4E, my Monero deployment, operations and analytics platform. It uses Linux systemd to spin up manage Monero, P2Pool and XMRig instance...
AI Snake Lab
AI Snake Lab is an interactive reinforcement learning sandbox for experimenting with AI agents in a classic Snake Game environment — featuring a live Textual...
The Power of Pictures
You know that saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”? In programming, I’d argue it can be worth a thousand lines of code…
Caring About Constants
This post is about using constants in your code. Why it matters, what the benefits are and how you can do it well. I’m sad to say, I learned this the hard wa...
Where’d They Go? Welcoming 17 Racoon Tiger Shrimp to the Tank
This week, I introduced 15 raccoon tiger shrimp—plus a surprise 2 bonus—to my aquarium. After a proper acclimatization, I released them into the tank… and ju...
Why I Built Db4E
When I first started experimenting with Monero mining and self-hosted infrastructure, I did what everyone else does: I downloaded the Monero software, the P2...
Releasing with Git
Let me be honest: Git has punched me in the face more times than I can count. Every time I think I’ve got a smooth release flow down, Git yells, “Not so fast...
Documentation Matters
I was burned by opaque documentation: I’ve been building a modern terminal UI in Python using the excellent Textual framework. It’s sharp, fast, and honestly...
Textual Replaces ApexCharts
The original reporting system was a set of static dashboards built using GitHub Pages, JavaScript, and ApexCharts. It pulled data from my mining setup — via ...
Pivot to Textual
I’ve been deep in the trenches with my Db4E project — pulling together Monero mining infrastructure, MongoDB integration, and a bunch of orchestration magic....
Released Db4E SystemD
I recently published a small Python module to PyPI and GitHub: db4e-systemd, a lightweight wrapper around systemctl that lets you control services (start, st...
NIKU Farms
I received my order from NIKU Farms, YAY! It’s a meat delivery that my sister, Corinna Ghaznavi, gifted me this Christmas. Every two months I receive this am...
The Main Website
As part of my goal to be more visible in the world, I setup this domain i.e. https://osoyalce.com. I use it to publish information about the projects I’m wor...
Reviving the Blog
It’s been a while since I started and then abandoned this blog. My last post was in June of 2024!!
Changing the Blog Site’s Layout
I decided that I didn’t like the way that the main blog page looks. I am using GitHub to host the website and am using a fork of the jekyll/minima theme. My ...
2024
Aquaponics Update #1
It’s in the construction phase. I need to complete the water circulation process. I bought a fiber glass kit for this (and also to fix my kitchen sink!).
What I’m working on
The XMR Mining Farm complete with this eye-popping chart The Bear and Moose Knowledge Base My resume MyZODB - A Place to Store Everything