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While reading Ursula K.

I have been a VS Code user for many years now.

Mail Client Gmail app and Zoho app Mail Server Gmail for personal email Zoho for professional email: I've tried other providers for @seanmcp.com but keep coming back to Zoho.

Khan Academy uses GraphQL to handle all request to query and mutate data.

After switching my desktop to Linux from Windows[1], I ran into an issue installing Node.

Maxi Ferreira writes in Fear and Curiosity and AI about the two stages of AI adoption among developers: A Stage 1 reaction looks something like this: “Ha!

The axe DevTools extension is valuable for testing the quality of your work.

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck by Pedro Tavares makes an important observation about using LLMs when writing software.

I read Colocation by Kent C.

For the past few years, I have been paying on and off for ChatGPT and Claude.

VS Code started acting up after a recent update, so I took the opportunity to try Zed again.

Today I deleted all of my public and private GPTs.

Yesterday I went to Pittsburgh TechFest 2024 at the Commonwealth Charter Academy building on the Waterfront.

While evaluating different language models with promptfoo, I started running into the following error message: /Users/seanmcp/project-dir/node_modules/.pnpm/promptfoo@0.67.0_@aws-sdk+client-bedrock-runtime@3.606.0_@azure+identity@4.3.0_@azure+openai-_c7fw…

When you want to update state in React, you have two options: pass the next value, or pass a callback function that returns the next value. const [state, setState] = useState(0); // Next value const reset = () => setState(0); // Callback function const i…

In 2021 I purchased a 43" VIVO sit/stand desk from Amazon.

Let's say you have a list of buttons and want to perform an action when one is selected.

You can set the align attribute on a table column in Markdown by using a colon in the header row separator.

I've been hearing a lot about CSS nesting, but I figured that it was still years away from being ready for use even on a site like this.

First of all: I'm happy with Astro.

Eleventy has "Get Started" documentation that shows you how to get from a single markdown file to a built site.

Setup: Let's say I have a React tree like this: function Parent() { console.log("Parent render"); useEffect(() => { console.log("Parent effect"); }, []); useLayoutEffect(() => { console.log("Parent layout effect"); }, []); return <Chi…

I asked ChatGPT 4o for general recommendations for software release frequency, and it spouted out some information that seemed generally plausible.

This website is built with Astro, and overall I've been happy with my choice.

A coworker at Khan Academy shared some advice (apparently secondhand from the New York Times) for managing your ever-growing photo archive: Every day open your photos app Search for the day's date Review your old photos from that day Delete ones you don't…

I learned “measure twice, cut once” while working with my dad.

There are out-of-the-box solutions for searching on a static site.

I'm in the middle of a long project to migrate my projects from Netlify to GitHub pages.

There are two browser features that enable you to detect an internet connection with JavaScript: The Navigator interface's onLine property for the current state The online and offline events for state changes By combining these, we can create a custom Rea…

Yesterday I upgraded to Astro v4 without any issues, but this morning I noticed that my RSS feed was broken.

I like trying out new browsers and try to avoid being tethered to one for too long.

Ubuntu was running slow on my old personal laptop.

tl;dr You can run Ollama on an older device, but the response will be slow and/or low quality.

Ollama is a great way to get started with AI by using open-source and publically available large-language models locally on your computer.

Ollama is an application for running large-language models locally on your computer.

Command-line arguments Permalink to “Command-line arguments” # Use argparse to configure command-line arguments: import argparse VERSION = "1.0.0" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Describe your CLI') parser.add_argument("-v", "--version", a…

I'm not an expert in LLMs or GPTs, but something about the interaction above feels wrong.

Painless.

On this site I have a few different types of content: articles, notes, gardens, and now art.

AI products/services that I used regularly (multiple times per week): GitHub Copilot ⭐: Copilot continues to be a valuable resource when coding.

I used sli.dev to create my slides for my recent talk at Pittsburgh TechFest 2023.

tl;dr: Using a single file seems to reduce the likelihood of a knowledge-base loading and improve response times overall.

As of 11/15/2023, the limit is 10 files.

This feels like the breakthrough month.

tl;dr: Use text files instead of markdown with OpenAI’s custom GPTs I conducted an experiment to see if the file type of uploaded content had an impact on how GPTs could read the information.

Last week I spent time working with the Web Speech API for a hackathon at Khan Academy.

If you had asked me ten years ago about my ability to handle cognitive load, I would have said that I was above average.

Sorry for two months in one post, but I haven't been using AI much recently.

At work I was mocking an object to be passed to a React context provider.

Removing duplicates, sometimes called de-duplicating or de-duping, is a common task in programming.