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Public IP Lookup Service
A common task for an administrator is to check the public IP addresses of the current system they are on or the current system they are using. This is important both in day-to-day work and while working with cloud providers. There are many services available, but not all are created equal.
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ADO Pipeline library export and import
In the Azure DevOps world, moving from one tenant to another is not a very familiar concept based on Microsoft documentation. I had to do exactly this. The Azure DevOps Migration Tools did the trick for most of the ADO Boards-related things. Repos were copied over by pushing to a new Git source. Pipelines are…
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ReCaptcha – Invalid key type
This is a quick bit: I recently had to add a reCAPTCHA key to a website. However, the keys provided did not work directly and I saw the Invalid key type error. In my case, this could be fixed by reissuing the key, switching from a version 3 key to a version 2 key.
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My experience with LLM use cases
As I work every day, I constantly see recurring work that I would like to optimize and automate. There are use cases that feel obvious that they should work and easy to do, but the real-world experience is different. Read about my learning.
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What i learned about Ollama
Ollama is great for running a local self-hosted AI REST API. You can load all kinds of models, whether they’re for chatting, vision, or embedding. At this time, I’m not aware that voice models can be used for input or output, but that might only be a matter of time. Why Ollama Why would you…
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Instrumentation Keys to Connection Strings
On March 31, 2025, Microsoft will end support for instrumentation key-based global ingestion in Azure Monitor’s Application Insights. After this date, while your resources will still receive data, updates and customer support related to this method will no longer be available. This change marks the transition from global endpoints to regional ones that utilize connection…
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Upgrading Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.04.1 LTS
I recently had to upgrade my Linux tiny VM from Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.04.1 LTS. However, as I waited too long, a simple do-release-upgrade no longer worked in January 2025.
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App Service Node 22 availability
Azure App Service on Linux does not currently support Node 22 LTS. As of January 27th 2025, the latest supported Node.js version on Azure App Service for Linux is Node 20 LTS. The support timeline for Node.js versions on Azure App Service is as follows: On Ignite Node 22, support was announced for December 2024…
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Find your Azure DevOps
You might have the problem that when you are opening dev.azure.com you will be redirected to portal.azure.com. Likely you were not looking for portal.azure.com but rather for Azure DevOps. This is how you can find your Azure DevOps organization and gain access back.
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Deepseek-r1 (Reasoning models)
DeepSeek’s first generation reasoning models with comparable performance to OpenAI-o1. What is a Reasoning model In the words of OpenAI. A new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. As AI becomes more advanced, it will solve increasingly complex and critical problems. It also takes significantly more compute to…