Someone I knew in high school wrote me a really nice message on Facebook about how I got him interested in programming and inspired him to become a software engineer — as it turned out, this message was exactly what I needed. …

“Stop blindly grinding leetcode. Start grindly blinding blind75” — At long last, I am releasing my CORGIS into the wild — this is a webpage based on Yangshun Tay’s Blind75, but with YouTube resources and topic lists for every question. The webpage is simply hosted on GitHub Pages. Who Is This For? This is for software engineer candidates who…

A Netflix original series dramatizes the technology behind Spotify. This will just attempt to scratch the surface of it. — The fourth episode of “The Playlist” seemed like a perfect backdrop for a system design interview. Andreas Ehn, played by Joel Lützow, broke the fourth wall to diagram Spotify’s design, complete with a trade-off decision (client-server network vs. peer-to-peer network), an engineer meeting with a solution (hybrid approach), and the…

Vuetify, JavaScript, V-Data-Table, And PR Rejects — Last time I took a look at a project Smack was throwing up called “Nutrition Solver,” which he wrote simply to build recipes and calculate macros. I thought this would be a great opportunity to replicate whatever he had in Vuetify, since it seemed like a perfect example of a…

Maybe the real stable release is the friends we made along the way — I took a break from “Rudeness Translator” (a web application that uses GPT to translate rude internet comments into polite ones) to look at a new project with Smack. Our conversation went something like this: Smack: I’m going to try to bang out a web application tonight to help build…

Rudeness Translator — Leveraging GPT To Turn Rude Internet Comments Into Constructive Ones — The idea behind Rudeness Translator is to use GPT to automatically turn scathing Medium.com comments into constructive criticism. Last time I noticed a considerable improvement when I switched to GPT-3.5. Before, the results of the supposed “summary” seemed somewhat random, analogous to asking for information about the Biden Administration and…

Or “The Adventure Continues — Going From Davinci-3 To Gpt-Turbo-3.5” — GPT-Turbo-3.5 was released on March 1 of this year, meaning that at this point it is ancient history and no one really cares about it. Until a few minutes ago, though, I was using Text-Davinci-003 and noticed a considerable lack of quality. When I inputted a pretty long comment I…

Or “How Working With The OpenAI API Taught Me What Temperature Was” — Last time I wrote about the necessity of something like the MEVN stack, but it turns out I was wrong. The logic seemed simple enough: I needed Node.js, and Express.js would help; without the two, there are no way for me to use the OpenAI Node.js library. But actually, I…

Or “Why I May Need To Solve This Problem With The EVAN Stack” — A little while ago, I read this comment: What sort of dribble is this? Are you even qualified to write anything that remotely concerns coding and technology? So many mistakes here like, “Backend developers works closely with hardware”. Just shows you how much you know, which is NIL! It’s simple, it’s…