A Simple Implementation to Use OpenAI Chat Completions in Jupyter Notebooks — While working on a research project in JupyterLab, I found myself too frequently jumping back and forth between ChatGPT and the notebook. My research has to do with prompt engineering, so capturing the ongoing dialog is important. …

Key Factors to Consider when Creating Product Documentation for Digital Products — Product documentation is a critical component of any successful product. It provides users with the information they need to understand how to use and get the most out of the product and can be a key factor in determining whether or not a customer has a positive experience. Unfortunately, product…

How simple math helped me shed fat, build muscle, and get ripped in 4-months. — At the start of 2022, I committed to the Body Fat Challenge (BFC) with 49 other guys. For 26-years, the BFC has been organized and run bi-annually by a close-knit group of friends in Miami, FL. I was fortunate to get invited to participate in this go-round. While the “C”…

3-dimensions of scalability to consider when curating a tech stack. — Like in Seth McFarlane’s movie A Million Ways to Die in the West, there are a million ways to fail when building a tech company. Many of those ways, sadly, are entirely out of our control. …

Adding association management methods to Rails models — If you’re a Rails developer, you’re probably familiar with updating associated records through the association_name_ids= setter method. That strategy works well, but often leads to cluttered controller methods for managing record associations. In a current project, I found myself wanting a more convenient interface for add, removing, and resetting record…

I recently found an article about someone who built a Zapier integration between Alexa and ChatGPT. Although it was a cool project, I realized it wasn’t necessary to use a third-party platform or Home Speaker to interact with ChatGPT using voice. All the required functionality is natively available in Chrome. …

Strapi CMS is a popular, open-source headless CMS that provides a flexible and easy-to-use platform for building web applications. One of its core plugins is the upload provider, but the default implementation ships with some biased configurations that can lead to trouble. In this article, I’ll show you a simple…

Like many others, I use Google Workspace for my daily operations at walkthrough.ai. Unlike many others, I’m borderline obstinate when signing up for YAS (yet another SaaS). Even the smallest companies today are overflowing with dozens of SaaS subscriptions (paid and free). However, they usually only leverage a small percentage…

GraphQL Clients are not necessary for making GraphQL API Calls, and often complete overkill for the job at hand. — Imagine that your friend purchases a semi-truck because, “they run a lot of errands.” Any sane person would tell that friend that they’ve gone a little too far. Even the most modest, budget vehicle would likely do just fine for running their errands. …