Hacking the Ikea 'Markus' Chair for armless use
A cost-effective and aesthetic solution to the ugly holes and metal bolt ends left exposed if you assemble the Ikea 'Markus' chair without arms but don't have a 3-D Printer or are prepared to pay half the cost of the…
Read more →Sankeys And Pythons And Pandas, Oh My
Recently I've seen a few people publishing Sankey diagrams (those coloured process diagrams) for their recent job searches. After finding it (initially) more of a faff to produce my own than I might have hoped I…
Read more →A Word on CloudFormation (updated)
For the majority of my career I have worked in AWS shops and (mainly) with Terraform. Neither of course is the only way and I would always argue against the 'golden hammer' mentality towards any tool or tooling. What…
Read more →Deploying EKS with Prometheus and Grafana
On the face of it this is a fairly pedestrian post subject. The devil, of course, is in the details. Here I wanted to deploy a new EKS cluster, with Prometheus and Grafana, cleanly and with good architectural domain…
Read more →Extrapolating the curve for targetted consumer AI services- focus Arc Search
This evening one of the the big conversation pieces on Tech Twitter is Arc Search and their 'Act II of the internet' launch video: "Our vision for Act II of Arc Internet pic.twitter.com/1RidKJVYUX" - Josh Miller…
Read more →Going Bananas For The Minions Game
Recently I attempted a Python challenge on HackerRank - 'The Minion Game'. My curiosity was piqued and I wanted to find out if the odds were as stacked as I initially thought. I was surprised that this wasn't already…
Read more →Writing my own (Python) study course with ChatGPT - part 2
This is a follow-up article to one I published in June 2023 - 'Writing my own (Python) study course with ChatGPT - part 1'. This discusses a more structured and disciplined approach with reflective practice and…
Read more →Terraform, OpenTF, and the Shrinking Gap
Hashicorp recently made shock licensing changes to their stack to close their source code to 'competitors'. There has been much public comment and Open Terraform has already been announced in response. I see a strong…
Read more →AI Assistance On The Home Turf
I've written previously about using ChatGPT to provide Artificial Intelligence ('AI') support for coding and tutoring in unfamiliar areas. What about using it on home turf, i.e. in an area with which I am familiar- in…
Read more →Writing my own (Python) study course with ChatGPT - part 1
I've previously written about writing applications with ChatGPT. Now I am writing about using ChatGPT as a coding tutor. I have always struggled to find application software coding projects to improve with. I've not…
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