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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…
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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…
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Something From “Early” AI
This is a little something that was getting started for work, but progress has stalled. It appears they are going to use a different implementation. (I am not giving away any work details here…) Essentially, it is an AI based web page that utilizes a local LLM. The main idea was to upload information, and…
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Letting Go of The Past (App)
This will be my final entry for AlertYoSelf. It was something I created a few years ago, that actually made it into the Apple App Store! Though it did not generate any revenue… It was created as an “out”, for people who were on dates or events, and wanted an excuse to possibly end it.…
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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…
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Summing up 2023
This week, I have been doing some digital clean up. In doing so, I reached this blog and see some posts that were never completed. Instead of trying to fully complete them, here are a few highlights! AI – To be clear, not training AI, but understanding how to use it to get meaningful responses.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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PHP, SEO and MySQL Walk into a Bar…
Ok, maybe they don’t walk into a bar, but meet up on a website. In this case, it’s a site for work. This new website has a section for articles, similar to blog posts. Creating the articles and accessing them were “easy” (I will not go into detail about how to access a mysql database…