Blog, AI, Product Management Tinkering
My 4 year old loves the show Wild Kratts, a subset of which is graciously made available for streaming on PBS Kids. After a bit of weekend tinkering, I ve made https://nattaylor.com/wk to watch any episode. It was fun, so here s the story. The subset on PBS rotates every few weeks and my son wants to [ ]
The standard Google Analytics implementation has always bugged me because requires 2 network calls to load the scripts then the time executing large scripts (98kb then 21kb gzipped, plus some time to execute.) Recently I discovered a very minimal implementation which is only about 670-bytes after uglification and gzip, which can implemented without a separate [ ]
Here s how to configure postfix to use a remote mail relay Hopefully this helps someone else too!
Right now the TaylorNet consists of nattaylor.com, taylorednutrition.com, tayloryachtdesigns.com, r19fleet5.org and a handful of others, which comes with a maintenance burden and a cost. So is sort of a post to myself to remind me why I do certain things.
By default image uploads are processed, changing the quality and saving multiple sizes. This is for good reason, because it provides some basic optimization to prevent serving huge images. That said, it uses JPEG and creates lots of files and for most use cases I think one medium sized WebP image is enough. So here s [ ]
Today I wanted to deploy my Django application to a server running Apache. It took some fiddling, so here are my notes. Here s how I configured apache and mod_wsgi There s a lot in there. Keep in mind that your wsgi.py runs before an Apache directive SetEnv so you cannot use that. Also LogLevel info is [ ]
u/ShippersAreIdiots recently posted that he needed help reducing query times on a Postgres table with 300M rows. He provided the schema and some queries with times, which is not sufficient to get meaningful help. I used it as an excuse to dig into Postgres and here are my initial results. The tl;dr is that you [ ]
NOAA has a nice tides and currents API, so I wondered how good AI would be at taking a user s data description like tides in boston and generating the API URL with all the query parameters replaced. It works well! Check out the demo at https://nattaylor.com/ai/tidesandcurrents/ I think this idea could have many applications in [ ]
I like to laugh with other toddler parents about going to restaurants, so I made toddled.net as a fake Yelp directory of toddler restaurants. I did it all with AI including: I m very pleased with the results!