07/13/2026
by Marlon Ribunal
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My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well, it’s old, and it has already served past its useful life. So, a few months ago I bought a 14-inch Macbook Pro M5 Pro with 24GB of memory and the standard for M5 Pro 15-core CPU. I used OrbStack instead of Docker Desktop. Continue reading
07/06/2026
by Marlon Ribunal
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The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly invisible to many. Those countless sleepness nights are a testament to our dedication. Whether that is a server that went down because of a bad patch or a server that refused to get back online after a configuration change, we are always there to save the day (or night). And it doesn’t matter if we’re in the middle of a special celebration of a loved one, or a well-deserved rest day. We rise to the occassion. Continue reading
10/27/2025
by Marlon Ribunal
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Ollama SQL FastStart kit just works out of the box. It makes it easy to spin the whole Docker Compose stack not in minutes but seconds! Continue reading
