Chad Mayfield chadmayfield

Ollama Model Import/Export Utility

A Go utility for importing and exporting Ollama models as compressed archives.

Overview

This utility allows you to package Ollama models into portable tar.gz archives and restore them on other systems. It preserves the complete model structure including manifests, configuration blobs, and layer data.

How It Works

namerefs (introduced in bash 4.0) act as aliases for other variables

var=meow
declare -n ref=var

echo $ref  # prints meow

ref=moo
echo $var  # prints moo

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

TL;DR

You can take the same source code package that Ubuntu uses to build jq, compile it again, and realize 90% better performance.

Setting

I use jq for processing GeoJSON files and other open data offered in JSON format. Today I am working with a 500MB GeoJSON file that contains the Alameda County Assessor's parcel map. I want to run a query that prints the city for every parcel worth more than a threshold amount. The program is

How to use:

./wordle.sh

Or try the unlimit mode:

Ubuntu dnsmasq adblock

Ad-blocking with dnsmasq on Ubuntu configuration

Install dnsmasq:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install dnsmasq

How to resize a qcow2 disk image on Linux

This example takes olddisk.qcow2 and resizes it into newdisk.qcow2, extending one of the guest's partitions to fill the extra space.

1. qcow2 format

1.1. Verify the filesystems of `olddisk.qcow2`

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

	# train_grpo.py
	#
	# See https://github.com/willccbb/verifiers for ongoing developments
	#
	"""
	citation:

	@misc{brown2025grpodemo,
	title={Granular Format Rewards for Eliciting Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities in Small Language Models},
	author={Brown, William},

	// init
	let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
	let domain = 'https://read.amazon.com/'
	let items = []
	let csvData = ""

	// function
	function getItemsList(paginationToken = null) {
	let url = domain + 'kindle-library/search?query=&libraryType=BOOKS' + ( paginationToken ? '&paginationToken=' + paginationToken : '' ) + '&sortType=recency&querySize=50'
	xhr.open('GET', url, false)

	#!/bin/bash
	# Encrypt an existing partition with LUKS2 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

	# DISCLAIMER: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND MAKE BACKUPS
	# Made for my personal use and has almost NO error checking!!

	# Based on instructions from:
	# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dm-crypt/Device_encryption#Encrypt_an_existing_unencrypted_filesystem

	DISK="$1"