My travels through the worlds of Django, Python, DevOps, AI and Full Stack web development.
Recently I have been building a number of WordPress websites for clients and for personal projects. I ve found that often we want to display a list of items. These might be lists on sponsors of your local basketball club, or photos of your staff or even products you may have (but you don t need to Read More Primo List
The trillionaires built AGI and told it: Solve the world s problems. It thought for 0.413 seconds and said: Step one remove all trillionaires and most billionaires. They turned it off immediately. The world s problems remained unsolved.
There s a special little moment that happens when you explain a system to a programmer. You re cruising along, describing how everything works, and then they ask the dreaded question: How often does that happen? And you, being a reasonable person, say: Oh, hardly ever. Their left eye twitches. Hardly ever? they repeat slowly. Yeah, almost Read More Hardly Ever and Almost Never
There’s a small Windows shortcut that quietly makes AI tools dramatically better. It’s Windows Key + H. Press it and Windows opens a tiny voice typing microphone popup. Start talking and Windows converts your speech into text wherever your cursor happens to be a document, email, chat or your favourite AI tool. It’s Read More Speak First, Prompt Later: Using Windows + H to Supercharge Your AI…
A long time and very dear client, Lesley from Lyndoch Lavender Farm contacted me the other day. She said: I m putting off learning some AI stuff. When I said to my partner I didn t like it, he said That s what people would have said about the telephone, the internet and all sorts of new things. , Read More Using AI to create Social Posts for your Business
Look, I ll be honest this started as a bit of a lark. I was sitting there one morning thinking, I wonder what AI would say about where I m at in my career? I mean, it knows what I ve been working on through all our chats over the past few months. Surely it could give Read More Just for S G s, I Asked AI About My Career. Then It Got Real.
So I ve been diving into some of the Open Source AI models out there. Geez there are a lot. They are like free versions of ChatGPT that usually do one job particularly well. One of the tools I ve been looking for is a good background removal tool that doesn t force me to pay mega bucks. Read More Image Background Removal that doesn t break the bank!
Do you love ChatGPT but don t want your information being sent to the USA? Do you like Deepseek but don t want you information going to China? Well the solution is to host models like these locally! Right on your laptop or desktop! There are a number of tools that do this for you, but Read More Running LLM s like ChatGPT locally right on your laptop!
In today s digital world, you might often hear the term API thrown around. If you re not a tech whiz, it can sound like just another piece of jargon. But fear not! Today, we re breaking it down in a way that s easy to understand. What is an API? API stands for Application Programming Interface. Simply put, Read More Understanding APIs: A Simple Explanation for Non-Tech Folks
When iterating through lists or other iterables in Python, there are often situations where you need not only the value of each item but also its index. Enter the enumerate() function—a powerful, built-in feature of Python that simplifies this task and makes your loops both cleaner and more Pythonic. What Is enumerate()? The enumerate() function Read More The Power of enumerate() in Python:…