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16Jun/25

Artificial Intelligence: What Are The Asilomar Principles?

June 16, 2025ai, Artificial Intelligence (AI), artificial-intelligencePixpaSeecoding Technologies

Asimov had the three laws in his fictional robots stories to protect humans and robots, but what about in non-fiction? Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI The Asilomar Conference was organised by the Future of Life Institute and took place in January 2017 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds (California), with many researchers, experts and thought leaders […]

14Jun/25

GitHub Codespaces: Creating A Codespace

June 14, 2025DevOps, githubPixpaSeecoding Technologies

I generally use a Raspberry Pi as my home Visual Studio Code server, allowing me to code in a dedicated developer environment. Sometimes though I might be away from home on a device that can’t connect back. So what’s a geek that wants to code to do in those circumstances? GitHub Codespaces GitHub Codespaces provide […]

05Jun/25

Artificial Intelligence: What is the Gorilla Problem?

June 5, 2025ai, Artificial Intelligence (AI), artificial-intelligencePixpaSeecoding Technologies

Professor Stuart Russell used the term “The Gorilla Problem” in his book, “Human Compatible” (Penguin, 2019), to describe how a super intelligent artificial intelligence (AI) could be a threat to humanity. Russell poses the problem “of whether humans can maintain their supremacy and autonomy in a world that includes machines with substantially greater intelligence“. At […]

29May/25

Good Bye Linux Format

May 29, 2025personal, Personal UpdatePixpaSeecoding Technologies

Issue 329, available now (May 2025) in the UK, is the final issue of Linux Format (LXF). The magazine lasted for 25 years and that is an amazing achievement in the modern age of websites delivering information and answers 24/7 – but before “always on connectivity” and broadband speeds it was a little different. It’s […]

27May/25

AI For Good – Book Review

May 27, 2025ai, artificial-intelligence, education, Reviews, technologyPixpaSeecoding Technologies

As part of my ongoing CPD I am learning more about Artificial Intelligence (AI), and as someone who enjoys reading that gave me another reason to read “AI For Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health“. Published by Wiley in 2024, and edited by Juan M. Lavista Ferrers (PhD, MS) and William B Weeks […]

22May/25

Mocking (Python)

May 22, 2025PythonPixpaSeecoding Technologies

When I write code I like to include tests. Tests help me to reduce the risk of code breaking changes and give me the reassurance that what I have coded does what I need it to do. I’m currently writing a backend (Django/Python) that serves some APIs and a frontend (Flask/Python) to consume those APIs, […]

15May/25

Terraforming Proxmox

May 15, 2025DevOps, proxmox, terraformPixpaSeecoding Technologies

A blog post looking at using Terraform to deploy a container into Proxmox.

18Mar/25

JavaScript: json-server

March 18, 2025JavaScriptPixpaSeecoding Technologies

When developing code that calls on APIs (Application Programming Interface) it can be a pain having to call the API multiple times just whilst coding the initial call or during testing. NPM (A package manager for Node) has a package that solves this called json-server. It can be installed via: The i NPM to install […]

17Mar/25

DevOps: What is DORA?

March 17, 2025DevOpsPixpaSeecoding Technologies

DORA is an acronym for DevOps Research and Assessment. The DORA team carry out research into the DevOps movement and produce “State of DevOps” reports to show what is happening in DevOps across teams across the world. The DORA State of DevOps reports from 2014 onwards can be found at: https://dora.dev/publications/ and show the changing […]

16Mar/25

DevOps: Muri, Mura, Muda

March 16, 2025DevOpsPixpaSeecoding Technologies

When discussing DevOps the Agile principles of Muri, Mura and Muda are key to help identify areas where improvements can be made. Muri Muri is overbudening. Overburdening a system, such as running an engine at its at limits can produces results for a while but it eventually causes burnout. Unlike Mura (below), Muri generally occurs […]