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In Tinkering With Artificial Intelligence Blog Writing, I talked about tinkering with some various AI engines. Google has just come out with their AI Chatbot, Bard. As you can see from the blog post, Bard has been out for awhile but was only open to internal use. Google recently started providing invites to the public ... Read more
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What can I say, upkeep sucks. I had made a number of changes as I migrated this blog from one platform to another. After the migrations, I even made some changes to WordPress. After making all of those changes, everything was broken but it didn’t matter. I had lots of leftover static content that allowed ... Read more
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In my Self Promotion of InkedWith post, I mentioned that I had some plans to bring in some new battles with technology. This article is a simple battle I found for removing glare with GIMP in images. I had taken some pictures to be used for printing as well as posting to social media. The ... Read more
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Introduction to Markup Syntax Markup syntax is a type of computer language used to create and modify documents. It is used to format text, create links, and add images, among other things. Markup syntax is commonly used in web development and programing languages such as HTML and CSS. In this blog post, we will be ... Read more
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Finally, my blog is searchable! I have added enough content that scrolling endlessly through categories wasn’t enough anymore. What Directions I Used As you might recall from my Successfully Deploying a Static WordPress Site post, I moved over to using Simply Static Pro to make my WordPress static. I finally got around to actually looking ... Read more
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I recently did some tinkering with creating a Snowflake UDF in Python. It turns out that I discovered a Python Snowflake UDF Quoting issue on the return value from the function. I was not able to find any information on this issue online so I figured it was good to document it for anyone else ... Read more
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While this post is mainly focused on self promotion of InkedWith, my new Shopify store, I figured it was a good way to open up a new wave of technology challenges! With the shameless plug out of the way, allow me to cover the back history of this a little bit. Back History I have ... Read more
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A friend of mine recently asked me to take a look at Nanobus. I guess the first question is what is Nanobus? Allow me to pilfer that definition directly from the Nanobus Overview page. They define it as a lightweight framework for building secure and scalable software services. The next question is what does this ... Read more
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If you’re a blog writer, you know the importance of engaging content. Up until now, artificial intelligence (AI) has been limited in its ability to help writers create compelling content quickly and easily. But that’s all changing with the introduction of Jasper, an AI-driven platform specifically designed to make blog writing easier and more efficient. ... Read more
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Writer’s block gets the best of us so I thought it was time to start exploring the possibilities of AI in blog writing. AI has been the rage for some time now and with the introduction of my new mentor, best friend, therapist, idea man or woman, ChatGPT, AI is tough to ignore. Like just ... Read more
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As a Python developer, it’s important to make sure that your code is working correctly and efficiently. One way to do this is by building tests for your code. In this blog post, we’ll go over the top reasons why you should build tests for your Python code. Improved Quality One of the main benefits ... Read more
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I ran into a small problem recently when I was leveraging my site updating code referenced in Automating Static WordPress Updates. The problem was that I was unable to update content reliably for two reasons: The content was not properly switching out the hostname in the URL when I would crawl my backend WordPress site. ... Read more
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Now that I’m beginning to use Github to manage my Kubernetes cluster as shown in my previous article Making The Leap Into Devops, it’s time to start bringing over some of my sample systems for testing. This article shows how to make use of Bitnami’s PostgreSQL helm chart to deploy a sample PostgreSQL database in … Continue reading "Deploying a Sample PostgreSQL Database"
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If you are not familiar with adminer, you can read more about it here. In short, it is a PHP script that allows you to manage various databases via a single interface. We have been successfully using the adminer official docker image from docker hub for a number of different databases. We now have a … Continue reading "Configuring adminer for Oracle Databases"
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I wanted to be able to curate some of my favorite RSS feeds into a single location. There are an endless number of RSS readers and ways to do it but I wanted to use Slack since it’s on every device I use. Using Slack would also allow me to get notifications wherever I was. … Continue reading "Connecting Slack to RSS Feeds"
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I had to figure out how to get logs from CloudWatch into S3. This task is actually pretty easy because AWS provides a very nice tutorial, Exporting log data to Amazon S3, that explains how to do this either via Console or CLI. My problem is that I needed to do this daily so automating … Continue reading "Exporting CloudWatch Logs to S3"
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Writing code can be tough and writing clean code can be even more difficult some times. When you get on a roll and put together highly functional and imaginative code, it might not always look the greatest. Also, when crunched for time, it can be very difficult to go back over the code and attempt … Continue reading "Adding pre-commit Hooks to Python Repo"
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