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How to Create Technical Documentation Using ChatGPT

No need to print out stacks of code when conversational AI can summarize it for you. (Photo is Margaret Hamilton, a computer scientist who played a crucial role in developing the software for the Apollo space program at NASA, standing next to a towering stack of printed code that she and her team wrote for the Apollo Guidance Computer.

ai 4 min read 2024-08-27 13:55:47.82 +0000 UTC

Top 5 Tips for Effective Software Leadership

The more you advance towards leadership in your tech career, the less technical your focus becomes. The most helpful things you can do become less about any particular technological problem and more about how to enable your leaders and team members to solve it.

leadership 4 min read 2024-08-27 13:55:47.82 +0000 UTC

How to Future-Proof Your Software Engineering Career for the Age of AGI

In the viral essay The Decade Ahead, Leopold Aschenbrenner predicts that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be a reality in only a few years.

ai 12 min read 2024-08-21 13:30:24.744 +0000 UTC

Post to your static website from your iPhone

I love websites. I love static sites in particular. But I know that sometimes it’s just not practical to write and post only from your computer.

websites 2 min read 2024-05-05 00:00:00 +0000 UTC

How to send long text input to ChatGPT using the OpenAI API

In a previous post, I showed how you can apply text preprocessing techniques to shorten your input length for ChatGPT. Today in the web interface (chat.

chatgpt 7 min read 2023-09-26 04:46:36 -0500 -0500

Optimizing text for ChatGPT: NLP and text pre-processing techniques

In order for chatbots and voice assistants to be helpful, they need to be able to take in and understand our instructions in plain language using Natural Language Processing (NLP).

nlp 7 min read 2023-09-19 04:46:36 -0500 -0500

Git branching for small teams

Here’s a practice I use personally and encourage within my open source projects and any small teams I run for work.

git 4 min read 2022-02-28 06:37:48 -0600 -0600

My paper to-do strategy

Coding up a to-do app may be the Hello, World of every framework, but when it comes to actually tracking tasks effectively (knock ’em out not stack ’em up) there’s no app that keeps things front of mind better than an open notebook on your desk.

docs 4 min read 2021-10-25 12:17:32 +0000 UTC

Measuring productivity with GitHub issues

How long does it take for a bug to get squashed, or for a pull request to be merged? What kind of issues take the longest to close?

data 4 min read 2021-08-30 05:35:02 +0000 UTC

Building in context

It’s a comedy classic – you’ve got a grand idea. Maybe you want to build a beautiful new dining room table.

leadership 5 min read 2021-08-09 03:17:49 +0000 UTC