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Victoria Drake Optimizing text for ChatGPT: NLP and text pre-processing techniques
Mastering text preprocessing to send more input to ChatGPT.
nlp 7 min read 2023-09-19 04:46:36 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Set up a Pi-hole VPN on an AWS Lightsail instance
Build your own VPN with Pi-hole to block ads and trackers.
privacy 7 min read 2021-10-07 11:01:13 +0000 UTC
Victoria Drake Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server
A speed-run introduction to Matrix via Dendrite.
privacy 6 min read 2021-02-15 01:38:07 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake How to write good documentation
The secret to never forgetting how your project works, in three steps.
docs 4 min read 2020-12-14 04:53:10 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake How to create a self-documenting Makefile
Accelerate your workflow and DevOps with command-line aliases you can check in
coding 4 min read 2020-08-05 08:55:19 -0400 -0400
Victoria Drake SQLite in production with WAL
An underappreciated candidate for light and fast database transactions.
data 4 min read 2020-03-05 10:14:43 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Multithreaded Python: slithering through an I/O bottleneck
How taking advantage of parallelism in Python can make your software orders of magnitude faster.
python 5 min read 2020-02-28 09:31:02 -0500 -0500
Victoria Drake Secure application architecture basics: separation, configuration, and access
A starting point for building secure application architecture, for busy developers.
cybersecurity 7 min read 2019-09-30 08:03:12 -0400 -0400

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