Tutorials

From the workbench

Tutorials I can stand behind because they follow the code in the public repositories. The old /blog URLs stay where they are.

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  • Tutorial6 min read

    LoRA fine-tune a small LLM on maintenance logs

    Turn a synthetic maintenance log into one JSON object with TRL, PEFT, and a small instruct model. The training set is generated, the results table starts empty, and a two-step CPU smoke test only checks that the loss is finite.

    • lora
    • fine-tuning
    • transformers
    • peft
    • qwen
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  • Tutorial7 min read

    Build an MCP server for Jira and GitHub

    A Python MCP server with eight Jira and GitHub tools, an in-memory fake for demos, and a live REST mode that keeps tokens in the environment. Read-only mode, allowlists, and a per-tool rate limit sit in front of every call.

    • mcp
    • jira
    • github
    • agents
    • python
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