Coding Interview Fail Video
Play by play of how I failed a coding interview.
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TitleBridge 1.1 has a major new feature
TitleBridge now has a major new feature. You can now select the style of title to generate. This leaves room for a lot more creativity.
TitleBridge is my first app
TitleBridge converts captions in Final Cut into editable titles. It runs inside Final Cut and uses easy dragging and dropping. There's no longer any need to export captions, load them up into another app, have the other app generate FCPXML with the titles, and then import the FCPXML back into Final Cut.
TitleBridge
System Requirements Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or better processor)* Final Cut Pro 11.1+ * TitleBridge does not require Apple Silicon. We recommend this so Final Cut is able to transcribe your audio to captions. Without this functionality, you will either need to manually enter your captions or use a third-party tool. It is much more pleasant and efficient to be able to do it all from within Final…
How I thought I had invented Modular Monolith video
The story of how I thought I had invented the Modular Monolith.
How JPMS Services can Supercharge Your Modular Monolith video
Video that goes into how JPMS Services can supercharge a Modular Monolith application architecture.
Modular Monolith YouTube video
I thought, at one point, that I had invented the concept of the modular monolith. That is funny in retrospect... I decided to try to create my first real YouTube video abut this architectural style.
🐴 Creating Horse Hot or Not 🐎
I already followed the Dioxus tutorial and created a GUI application . Now I needed a pet project to learn even more about Dioxus. It couldn't be too complex as I am still learning the framework. It had to have some similarity to the application from the tutorial so I would not get too stuck and could reference it. I did not want to touch user authentication just yet. My idea is Horse Hot or…
Creating an Application in Rust using Dioxus
My previous post about Vibe Coding got me thinking whether, perhaps, it is hard to create a GUI application in Rust. I have primarily been a backend developer with a little bit of web frontend experience using Vue.js . Are We GUI Yet lists the various Rust GUI frameworks. The description for Dioxus sounded intriguing.Hopefully this is not drinking the Kool-Aid. See Google Web Toolkit , an attempt…
Vibe Coding
I have repeatedly heard the term Vibe Coding since last month. Having worked in Software Engineering for over 13 years, I naturally have a bit of skepticism. Determined not to fall into the curmudgeon trap, I am going to try out vibe coding and see what it is all about.
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #3
This is Daily Coding Problem #3. I did the work in a Jupyter notebook and then exported it to include here.
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #2
This is Daily Coding Problem #2. I did the work in a Jupyter notebook and then exported it to include here.
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1
One of my friends on LinkedIn recommended I sign up for the Daily Coding Problem email. This is Problem #1. I did the work in a Jupyter notebook and then exported it to include here.
Open Deep Research using LangChain *Working*
I have Open Deep Research using LangChain working. This builds upon the work in Open Deep Research Using Langchain . Just on a lark, I ran git pull and there were changes. I resolved merge conflicts and now it works!
My self-taught journey to becoming a Software Engineer
I hold an undergraduate degree, but not in Computer Science. Ever since the first time I saw a computer, I've been fascinated and obsessed. My curiosity is what ultimately led to my career as a Software Engineer.
My thoughts on coding interviews
Let me start off by saying I am just plain bad at coding interviews. Some people are fast on their feet and others need more time to think. I need more time to think. Coding interviews are a way to eliminate lots of candidates when a ton have applied. They are; however, in no way representative of actual day to day work.
Open Deep Research using LangChain
In Foray Into Agentic AI , I adapted HuggingFace's Open Deep Research work to run locally. Now I am going to try to do the same using LangChain's Open Deep Research code .
Farm Life: Rendering Beeswax
My wife, the animal lover, got us into beekeeping several years ago. I had no idea how much I would like bees then. This weekend, after processing honey, I decided I wanted to render and filter the remaining wax. This is the first time I have ever done anything like this.
What is Agentic AI - Written by Agentic AI
The following post is written by Open Deep Research using Qwen2.5:14b. The prompt was: Write an article on agentic AI. The audience is Software Engineers who do not have a lot of experience with AI. Please cover, among other things: what agentic AI is, the best use cases for agentic ai, pros and cons of using agentic ai, where agentic ai may be going in the future. Feel free to cover other aspects…
Foray into Agentic AI
I spoke with someone who is tasked with implementing AI systems at their organization. The goal, for them, is to use AI to help fetch and format data in response to natural language queries. Someone could ask, for example: Compare the number of widgets sold in 2024 and 2025. Break down the data by quarter. Present the data in both a table as well as a line chart. The way they are able to…
Diving into AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. It is easy to naysay and dismiss it as just a fad. That would be a mistake. I think AI is here to stay and want to learn how it works and how to leverage it. I am very concerned with privacy and not giving companies information for free they can monetize. This means I need to run all of the models locally. Here I will document what I have…
My experience being a lead
The other day I was on Lemmy and someone asked in lemmy.world/c/programminghumor what being a Senior Software Engineer entails. Theirs was a comment below a meme of a senior dev gracefully and confidently diving into a firepit with spikes labeled "legacy code". This is how I responded.