Preston Blackburn
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Preston Blackburn
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I do coding, data/ml engineering, and other random stuff. Mostly Python related, but playing around with linux and neovim.
Just setup my first home server so I can stop paying for AWS to host my personal site. It was actually not too bad to setup, but I’ll definitely need some upgrades down the line

youtu.be/k0Nev6SYmEY?...
Turn your old gaming pc into a public server
YouTube video by Hardcoded
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October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I put together a tier list of data engineering and ML tools based on how much I like them (not even necessarily how "good" they are), and I had to censor my post. I'm re-uploading the original uncensored list here if anyone is interested.

*These are my opinions and not the opinions of my Employer*
September 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just released my latest video on how I used tree sitter to speed up LLM outputs by incrementally parsing the structured outputs. The library is MIT licensed if anyone wants to check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFbX...
LLM Structured Outputs Were Too Slow (Building a side project for a side project)
YouTube video by Hardcoded
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August 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
How does everyone like to handle their releases to PyPi? I was messing around with Hatch + Github release tags with the hatch-vcs plugin.
The only thing I don't like is that if I'm installing it in a container I have to do a `hatch build` step before I can install to create the version file.
#PyPI
August 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I had to do an initial sanity check to make sure that the struct-strm library I'm building is working properly. The first partial structured response returns shortly after the first token as expected!
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I've been working on a OSS project, and I'll be documenting the progress over the next few months here.

The project is for streaming partial json generated by LLMs into valid python structures and json.

You can checkout on Github if it sounds interesting to you -
github.com/PrestonBlack...
GitHub - PrestonBlackburn/structured_streamer: An open source component streaming library for Python + LLMs
An open source component streaming library for Python + LLMs - PrestonBlackburn/structured_streamer
github.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM