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Keep Learning - March 2024

Keep Learning - March 2024

Articles I’m Reading “AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government” by JOSH BOAK Video I’m watching “Bryan Finster - What are DevOps Dojos?” By DevOps Online Summit DevOps Dojo at Walmart - Bring teams together to learn something thing new. Articles

Keep Learning - February 2024

Keep Learning - February 2024

Video I’m watching HIDDEN ISSUES With Low-Code Solutions by The Engineering Room Low code makes the easy things easier and the hard things harder. Articles I’m Reading “AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government” by JOSH BOAK “If you use AI

Own your data: A Journey to Self File Hosting

Own your data: A Journey to Self File Hosting

Why I started hosting my own files? First, let’s look at why we need to host files in the cloud. Managing files in the cloud has become a must for my daily workflows and productivity. Services like Dropbox makes this easy. Having a cloud solution helps with keeping all

Installing Microsoft Bot Framework on Ubuntu with Node.js

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Installing Microsoft Bot Framework on Ubuntu with Node.js

Introduction Microsoft Bot Framework helps developers build bots using many popular chat services for example Slack or Google Assistant. There is no need to create a separate bot for each of the chat services you want to support. You can even develop your own connector if one is not supported

My Favorite Git Commands and Settings

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My Favorite Git Commands and Settings

Introduction Version control is important for any software developer and Git is now the most popular one. I will show you some of my favorite git commands and settings. Setup name and email Configure name and email for git commits. Usage: git config --global user.name “[name]” Usage: git config

Happy Pi Day with Python Script

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Happy Pi Day with Python Script

Celebrating PI Day. Lets write some code. GitHub Repository https://github.com/thebklabs/fun-scripts/tree/master/pi Share your comments: * Do you have any fun script to celebrate a holiday? Comment below. * Share this post on social media below. Thank you!

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Static Website Management Made Easy

Background I have been building websites for years professionally and personally using the traditional database backend CMS’s. After hearing static website generators started to gain popularity to help solve some security concerns and the rise of JAMs (Javascript, APIs, and Markup) web development stack I started doing some research.

Software Development 2019

software development

Software Development 2019

My current current list of what I want to learn more about in software development for 2019. Vue.js and Vuetify Vue is a popular open source JavaScript framework for UI development. Vuetify incorporate Googles Material Design Project into Vue with pre build components. TensorFlow TensorFlow is a machine learning

2019 Reading List

2019 Reading List

The Design of Everyday Things,by Don Norman Educated, by Tara Westover Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow, by Aurélien Géron Making Work Visible, by Dominica DeGrandis Breaking Failure,by Alexander Edsel 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari Business Adventures, by John Brooks Mapping Innovation

Futureproof How To Get Your Business Ready For The Next Disruption by Minter Dial, Caleb Storkey

Review What are the technologies which are in development and can change the world? This book reviews many of them and makes you think more about how to prepare for this future. We as humans we have a hard predicting when future technologies will be reality. This book does not

Custom PC Build for Software Developers

Custom PC Build for Software Developers

Build Overview Usage * Running Virtual Machines * Media Editing * Gaming @ 1080p * Daul boot Ubuntu and Windows 10 Parts List PC Parts Picker * CPU AMD RYZEN 7 1700X 8-Core 3.4 GHz (3.8 GHz Turbo) * CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite ML240L RGB AIO CPU Liquid Cooler * GPU EVGA GeForce GTX