Blog de Joe Freeman

In freemansoft/Flutter-AdaptiveCards a demonstration Dart chat server hands a question to a local Ollama model, asks for the answer as Adaptive Card JSON, and a Flutter client app renders the reply.

freemansoft/Flutter-AdaptiveCards is a Flutter renderer for Adaptive Cards.

A few years ago I tried to build a probabilistic/soft entity resolution system a few years ago using Elasticsearch with its ability to match "like" terms.

The overhead that made teams skip internationalization and accessibility is exactly the kind of work coding agents do best.

Documentation rots because updating it is manual, tedious, and easy to skip.

You Have No Excuse for Undocumented Code.

Prescription lens wearers know that their glasses can catch monitor reflections that can be seen whenever they are "on camera", in meetings, or when creating content.

Documentation is the code you write when working with LLMs.

I played with chatjimmy.ai.

Adafruit has a specific CircuitPython distribution for the T-Dongle-S3 that uses the LCD display as its default logging and REPL output.

Data science and AI projects are typically run on rented CPU/GPU resources or in self-managed data centers.

Measuring the success and potential of "Generative AI" is complicated.

Have you ever wanted to remove all downloads from your Kindle without disassociating and then re-associating it to your account?

Creating a cross-platform app icon for Flutter can be easy.

The asustor AS5402T is a NAS appliance that supports two (2) 3.5" drives and four (4) NVMe drives.

Sometimes we need to have a forcing function to make change inevitable.

Here are three short videos I did after reading a bunch “AI is blah blah to programming” posts on LinkedIn.

The hot ticket right now is "Put AI Everywhere".

macOS on Mac and MacBook machines automatically hides the scrollbars when you aren't scrolling.

LLM-supported AI is being stuffed into every computer-based and computer-assisted process.

You only understand something when you are forced to do it yourself.

We used to "play" buzzword bingo in meetings and company events.

General Impressions OpenVoice OS is an interesting project that runs on relatively lightweight hardware and lets you retain local voice processing.

I had a pile of Raspberry Pi 3b and Raspberry Pi 400 hardware so I used that.

I tried to plant something in an enterprise garden.