Recently, there have been exciting developments in the field of AI, and ChatGPT is just one of the many AI tools that can be used to explore data, discover new insights and supercharge work. However, AI has its limitations and requires high-quality data, careful training, and human oversight to work effectively. Ethical considerations are critical in the development and deployment of AI, and collaboration between stakeholders is essential to advancing AI in a responsible and beneficial way. While AI can create new opportunities and efficiencies, it also poses risks and challenges that must be addressed. By approaching AI with a human-centered and ethical perspective, we can ensure that it enhances our lives and contributes to a better future for all.
Tutorial Walkthroughs – Request Splitter
Tutorial snapshot of the request splitter example from “Designing Distributed Systems”
A few good things about strings in .net 7
Back in 2003, when the web was young (and so was I), Joel Spolsky, co-creator of StackOverflow declared this: “So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish […]
Still having fun with ChatGPT: Building a multi-tier app
Built with ChatGPT!
Let’s build an app to help me keep track of certain bits of technology news. The name of the app will be CWACON: Cloudy With a Chance of News.
It will be a combination of a browser app to display a summary of the set of news collected, as well as a c# console app to produce the news summaries.
New on InfoQ: Moving to .NET 7 MSMQ Alternatives
New long-form article on InfoQ: Moving to .NET 7 MSMQ Alternatives. Articles like this are a really good way for me to explore concepts with a certain rigor that helps make them even clearer for me. It brought a decent set of realizations, too. Check it out!
Fun with #ChatGPT
Or, how quickly can you mock up a demo in ChatGPT? The morning of my presentation for DevFest 2022, a friend of mine shared that gif on Facebook. I was curious as to how quickly I could build something like that in ChatGPT. I literally prompted my way to success, in a few, somewhat poorly […]
“7000 others”
“I haven’t heard about any AI-forward projects [in the Caribbean]” – that’s a quote from a recent episode of This Week In Caribbean Tech. Admittedly, I first saw the episode it was via this tweet: The long tail of my disagreement started when I saw the tweet and it continued to percolate for a good […]
1000m
Doing new things can be hard. Still try. That’s it, that’s the whole post.
Development-as-a-Service
It’s early days yet, but the sooner we face the music, the more ready we’ll be to adapt. I was listening to “Precious Things” from a recent Lupe Fiasco album. In it, he personified his hands and sang about the conflict he, the artist was engaged in with his instruments of expression – his hands. […]
Azure Skills Navigator (a real one)
I saw this tweet from @msdev: I literally read the first line and thought, Yes! They’re doing that cool thing I’d envisioned a while back. I clicked through to the post. That’s when I saw what I should have seen in the second line of the tweet, “…a ramp-up guide for developers”. Bummer. I mean, […]
Irwin Williams: Periodicals 