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2022

Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU. Ben Firshman provides detailed instructions for getting Stable Diffusion running on an M1 Mac.

# 1st September 2022, 5:41 pm / ben-firshman, machine-learning, macosx, ai, stable-diffusion, generative-ai

2017

arxiv-vanity (via) Beautiful new project from Ben Firshman and Andreas Jansson: “Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF”. It works by pulling the raw LaTeX source code from Arxiv and rendering it to HTML using a heavily customized Pandoc workflow. The real fun is in the architecture: it’s a Django app running on Heroku which fires up on-demand Hyper.sh Docker containers for each individual rendering job.

# 25th October 2017, 8:06 pm / ben-firshman, django, pdf, science, docker

2011

The First Few Weeks—ep.io. Another take on managed Python Django/WSGI hosting, from Andrew Godwin and Ben Firshman.

# 13th January 2011, 4:25 am / andrew-godwin, ben-firshman, django, hosting, python, wsgi, recovered

2010

World Government Data. Launched last week, this is the Guardian’s meta-search engine for searching and browsing through data from four different government data sites (with more sites planned). Under the hood it’s Django, Solr, Haystack and the Scrapy crawling library. The application was built by Ben Firshman during an internship over Christmas.

# 27th January 2010, 12:27 pm / ben-firshman, data, datagovuk, django, guardian, haystack, projects, python, scrapy, solr