I've been participating in Advent of Code since 2020, which was a really great year to start it given the pandemic and all. I have an ex-colleague to thank / blame for introducing it to me back then. I've been pretty good at posting my solutions in my repo https://github.com/therealjawss/aoc2020 but please don't judge as… Continue reading Advent of Code Starts Today!
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Chat GPT and the elections:
I'm not sure people fully grasp the impact of AI on our society. There's already been discussions around ethical use when it comes to education, creative works etc, but there's so much more that AI can have an impact on. Let's take the context of the ongoing US elections. I am not an American, but… Continue reading Chat GPT and the elections:
Today I Learned
When using generate clients in Visual Studio, baseUrls should have a trailing '/' especially those with a path at the end otherwise, the generate client only uses the domain name up till the domain suffix. JSON to JSON Schema (transform.tools) - useful tool for quickly converting a json object to schema most common options for… Continue reading Today I Learned
Adventures in CI/CD with Co-pilot
I got the privilege of picking up the CI/CD task from the backlog. I have some background in building CICD pipelines with YAML but that was mainly from the application test and deployment perspective. Creating pipelines that also creates and updates resources in Azure was going to be entirely new for me. Luckily, I had… Continue reading Adventures in CI/CD with Co-pilot
The Freewrite Traveler
Sent from jawss's Freewrite The influenceI was highly likely scrolling through tiktok as I usually am and somehow managed to land on writer tiktor. There I saw a few creators posting about this device that they use for **distraction free writing**. I have an unfulfilled dream of being a writer. Today I write code for… Continue reading The Freewrite Traveler
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Testing Posting from Email
I'm finding Bing chat or I think it's now called copilot really useful. Each time I think about building an automation utility, it's just so much easier to throw the question at the chat instead of opening up a browser then accidentally getting distracted by other things in the periphery of search tools, stack overflow… Continue reading Testing Posting from Email
Notes on setting up web and api in docker containers for development
I wanted learn more about using docker and containers for setting up a good development environment. My solution right now consists of a front end built with Nextjs and an ASPNET core backend. Each of the apps have their own docker compose files which I can use to get both up and running and go… Continue reading Notes on setting up web and api in docker containers for development
First assignment contract completed
I wanted to do some reflections about my first assignment at Skandia. I had initially signed on for a 4 month contract, which got extended for a year in 2023 for a total of 16 months within the company. I had initially taken up the project with the primary goal of forcing myself to use… Continue reading First assignment contract completed
First thoughts on Meta Quest 3
F and I got the new Meta Quest 3 devices and I wanted to write down my initial thoughts. There are already a ton of reviews out there of the popular games so I won't spend much time on that although I will mention some apps that I thought were pretty good. Last time I… Continue reading First thoughts on Meta Quest 3
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