Learning A Bit

Category: Website

  • CookieTrap – A Firefox Extension

    I have always been a little curious about what websites leave behind in my browser. Not paranoid (ok, a little), just… curious. Turns out, the answer is “a lot more than you’d think.” So I built something about it. Full disclosure, I built this using AI. But it was a guided build. I had the…

  • Not all LLM are created equal

    Over the holidays, while I was slacking from doing important computer work, I ended up at a casino. While there, I won a few bucks on my favorite game, roulette. Upon returning home, I looked for a roulette app, and there are plenty! But they have the “to play, I have to pay or give…

  • Why I do these posts

    The answer to this has basically been outlined in the About page, and still remains very valid. This post is a callback to the beginning, and a reminder for myself or anyone who comes across this blog. I can’t say this is a mental dump, because I don’t document everything. I find it difficult to…

  • Another Busy Week…

    It has been another busy week. For AI in general, and for myself. On Tuesday, OpenAI had its keynote. And did they announce some stuff! Now on to what’s important! It is time I actively look for a new job. In an effort to keep a semblance of privacy, I am setting up a local…

  • An AI engineered prompt

    Although I have not been updating this blog, or my Github as I intended, that does not mean I have not been learning. I have always been better at organizing other people’s stuff than my own! For example, at work I hooked up OpenAI’s API to our contact form to automatically catch spam before it…

  • The AlertYoSelf Reboot

    There is a plan, to join the present with the past. I am going to rebuild a (more proper) API version of my app, AlertYoSelf. AlertYoSelf was a little something I created while learning an earlier version of iOS. It made it to the App Store, and was actually downloaded a few times. (Un)Fortunately, the…

  • Selenium and Pytest, making testing your friend

    I recently completed the course, Python From Scratch & Selenium WebDriver QA Automation 2023, at Udemy. (certificate). In full disclosure, I did fast forward through the “Python From Scratch” portion as I already have some Python experience. I also skipped the “Robot Framework” section. I purchased the course to learn Pytest and Selenium webdriver. Also,…

  • Evolution of Thought

    This may be the first post I have done that explicitly relates to something I have done for work. Not to mention an opportunity to show growth in how to approach items and learn from them for the future. The situation – The new site for work was created and pushed live. All was well…

  • FastAPI – quick to build, runs fast

    FastAPI is an up and coming framework for Python to create an API. Some would say it’s already here. Yes, its main purpose is to be an API, but it can still host a website. Much in the same way Flask is a web framework, but can be used as an API. They can do…

  • A little Python Script…

    This post is being made because this is not quite worthy of a git repo… But it is an example of how a small script can solve a “problem”. In spring 2022, “Hamilton” was coming to town, and I really wanted to get tickets!!! They announced it multiple months in advance, and I was constantly…