docker VS SillyTavern

Deploying AI models into production requires tools that can package applications and manage them at scale. Docker simplifies the deployment of AI applications by containerizing them, ensuring that the application runs smoothly in any environment. Kubernetes, an orchestration system for Docker containers, allows for the automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, essential for AI applications that need to scale across multiple servers or cloud environments.

Linux Mint with Cinnamon: https://www.linuxmint.com/ as far as desktop OSes go it's familiar (Ubuntu without snaps by default), whereas the UI feels both snappy, doesn't use too much resources and is actually pretty to look at.

MobaXTerm: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ this one is a bit more Windows centric but I ended up paying for it and replaced mRemoteNg and PuTTY with it, it's even better than Remmina or whatever Linux has to offer - you can manage SSH/RDP/VNC/... sessions, input across multiple sessions side by side and it just simplifies things a lot (jump host support, a port forwarding too and so much more).

GitKraken: https://www.gitkraken.com/ also a piece of software that I paid for, this one actually makes using Git pleasant, feels better to use than SourceTree and Git Cola (even though that latter is wonderfully lightweight, too) and honestly I prefer that to the CLI nowadays.

Kanboard: https://kanboard.org/ is a lightweight Kanban project management tool, it might not have every feature under the sun but it's the most snappy project management tool I've ever used, looks simple and runs well. I honestly love it, what a nice thing to have.

Most modern text editors and IDEs: I personally pay for JetBrains IDEs but also like Visual Studio Code as a text editor and both have helped me immensely, they're reasonably performant when you have the RAM, look nice, often give you suggestions about how to improve your code and also have a plethora of plugins in their ecosystems. Nowadays I unapologetically use LLMs as well and overall it feels like I have these great tools and cool autocomplete (that is sometimes a bit silly and wrong) at my disposal, that makes me happy.

Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/ imagine if there was a successor to Windows Movie Maker, though something that gets most of the important stuff out of Sony Vegas, except is also completely free and works on most platforms. Kdenlive is all of that and also somehow quite pleasant to use, I actually prefer it to DaVinci resolve. There is a bit of a learning curve to any piece of software like this, but everything mostly makes sense in this one.

Gitea: https://about.gitea.com/ I still use this for my personal Git repositories and integrating with CI systems and it's lightweight, looks good and just feels pleasant to use. Previously I self-hosted GitLab and constantly ran into resource exhaustion as well as doubts about the next update is going to corrupt all of my data and break (it did), so now I use Gitea instead.

Drone CI: https://www.drone.io/ a container native CI solution that I can also self host. It's container oriented, integrates with Gitea nicely, is similarly nice to GitLab CI and doesn't cause me headaches like Jenkins would.

Docker: https://www.docker.com/ yes, even Docker desktop. It just makes working with containers really pleasant and predictable, even when something like Podman also exists (and also is great). I don't know, I feel like Docker really saved me from having brittle legacy environments, even self-contained containers with health checks and resource limits with still the same brittle code inside of those make me feel way more safe.

Note: Before running your application in the next step, make sure you have Docker installed and running. It's required to locally run Encore applications with databases.

Developing WordPress plugins and themes often requires a reliable development environment. Current we have good solutions as wp-env from Autommatic, Local WP from WP Engine, Docker, XAMPP (for old ones) and so on. All this can be good suits for a development environment, specially Local WP that is probably the easiest one to get up and running and wp-env that leverages Docker as a development environment in a very easy way to use.

Docker, an open-source development platform, provides containerization technology for building and packaging applications along with their dependencies into portable images.

With each app containerized with Docker, this allows it to be run on any other developer's machine also running Docker. Although I had automated deployments to Heroku without this, I decided to upload each service to a container registry.

Docker

Today we are going to see all the power that a CLI (Command line interface) can bring to development, a CLI can help us perform tasks more effectively and lightly through commands via terminal, without needing an interface. For example, git and Docker, we practically use their CLI all the time, when we execute a git commit -m "commit message" or docker ps -a we are using a CLI. I'm going to leave an article that details what a CLI is.

Docker (required): Understanding Docker is crucial for deploying software in containers, making your project portable and scalable. I use it for start Folo server.

Go to Termix and click Exit. Then go to Termux and code 1. Apk update 2. Apk upgrade 3. git clone https://github.com/Cohee1207/SillyTavern 4. cd SillyTavern 5. Install nodejs 6. Npm install 7. Node server

If you want the best roleplaying experience, I can only recommend SillyTavern with SillyTavern/SillyTavern-extras. The extras include summarization and ChromaDB, both helping to get longer and more coherent chats.

Really? Then we definitely have different experiences (or different ways to interact) with Guanaco. It's been the most unrestricted model I've tried, and I tried them all, but I'm using SillyTavern and the simple-proxy-for-tavern which combined with a little prompting liberates basically any model.

Why reinvent the wheel? Just use SillyTavern, ideally with the simple-proxy-for-tavern. That does it all, and more.

I tested this today in an hours-long direct roleplay comparison between q3_K_M quants of TheBloke/airoboros-65B-gpt4-1.2-GGML and TheBloke/guanaco-65B-GGML, using koboldcpp as backend together with simple-proxy-for-tavern and SillyTavern as frontend.

I'm using SillyTavern frontend and simple-proxy-for-tavern with koboldcpp backend.

I'm using SillyTavern frontend and simple-proxy-for-tavern with koboldcpp. Not sure which of these has solved the prompt-reprocessing problem, but I no longer have these slowdowns.

WizardLM 30B V1.0 is not only smarter and follows instructions better than the others, it's even uncensored when used with an uncensoring character card (I use SillyTavern as my GUI/frontend) - more so than any other model I tested. Probably because it follows instructions so well, thus roleplaying an uncensored character properly (and not breaking character or going "as an AI" even once during my tests).

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.3/install.sh | bash export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")" [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" nvm install node git clone -b dev https://github.com/Cohee1207/SillyTavern && cd SillyTavern npm i && node server.js

For Android (Termux users): 1. apt update 2. apt upgrade 3. Type "y" to everything and hit enter 4. pkg install git 5. git clone -b dev https://github.com/Cohee1207/SillyTavern 6. cd SillyTavern 7. pkg install nodejs 8. npm install 9. bash start.sh