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Why Maths for Machine Learning?

· 9 min read

Part 1 of the Maths for ML series. What mathematics you actually need, why it matters, and a roadmap for learning it from first principles.

data-engineering
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Regression and Decision Boundaries

· 17 min read

Part 5 of the ML Fundamentals series. Linear and polynomial regression, Ridge and Lasso regularisation, logistic regression, the Perceptron, and visualising …

data-engineering
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Classification — KNN, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees

· 15 min read

Part 4 of the ML Fundamentals series. Three foundational classification algorithms — how they work, when to use each, and hands-on implementation with …

data-engineering
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Python ML Toolkit

· 14 min read

Part 3 of the ML Fundamentals series. Setting up a Python ML environment, and practical workflow patterns with Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, and …

data-engineering
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Data Pre-processing and Evaluation

· 10 min read

Part 2 of the ML Fundamentals series. Cleaning messy data, selecting features, splitting datasets, and measuring whether your model is actually any good.

data-engineering
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What Is Machine Learning?

· 6 min read

Part 1 of the ML Fundamentals series. What machine learning actually is, the three main learning paradigms, and why it matters for infrastructure, automation, …

data-engineering
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Managing a NixOS Fleet with Claude Code

· 5 min read

Using Claude Code as an infrastructure co-pilot: a dedicated service account, scoped sudo, and a workflow for managing NixOS hosts through conversation.

linux
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Managing NixOS with Git: A Declarative Infrastructure Workflow

· 9 min read

NixOS is unlike any other Linux distribution. Your entire system — packages, services, users, firewall rules, filesystems — is described in configuration …

linux
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Building Gatehouse: A REST API for OpenBSD's PF Firewall

· 13 min read

Managing PF through SSH doesn’t scale when you want phone toggles, family controls, and audit trails. Gatehouse wraps pfctl in 66 authenticated REST endpoints — …

projects
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Archiving Claude Code Conversations to Hugo

· 5 min read

Every Claude Code session is a JSONL file sitting in ~/.claude/projects/. Across 17 projects I had 156 sessions — debugging logs, architecture decisions, …

Hugo
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Shortcode & Theme Showcase

· 4 min read

Callout Shortcode Three variants: alert, warning, and tip. Alert Alert callout — Use this for important information that demands attention. This is the default …

Demo
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Makefiles as Your Project Interface

· 6 min read

Every project gets a Makefile before it gets a README. Not as a build system, but as a project interface — coloured help menus, Docker Compose lifecycle, …

tooling
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Documenting AI Conversations in Hugo

· 2 min read

I find myself asking AI models questions constantly while working — debugging, architecture decisions, quick syntax lookups. Most of that knowledge disappears …

Hugo
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GitLab Slash Commands for Claude Code

· 6 min read

I’ve been using Claude Code as my daily driver for development work on a self-hosted GitLab instance. One of its best features is slash commands — custom …

DevOps
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