It’s been fun, Duo After dedicating over two years (748 days) to learning Spanish using Duolingo, I’ve decided that I’m done. While I’ve learned a lot and made good progress, I’m just not feeli...

Today, I worked with a dataset containing month numbers and corresponding values, and when sorted by month number, it gives the expected 1-12 order. However, this data needed to be sorted using fis...

In no particular order, here is my reading list for this year (next 6 months?). The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz) Accelerate (John P Kotter) Nudge (Richard H Thaler & Cass R. Suns...

When I first started working with LLMs, my concern was the amount of data being sent up to a big company who would invest the data to make more recommendations. A big concern I had was also related...

A few weeks ago, I watched a video from Dean at Deanin on YouTube where he showed how to use StimulusJS to generate reading times for posts/articles in his demo application. In his video, he use...

For some reason when I’m working with dates in Ruby or R, I forget that there is a super handy method that can be used to format a date, or even a string, so that it looks completely different. Mo...

I was today years old when I learned that the way I learned to round in school was not how everyone rounded. I was taught that the value 1.65, when rounded to one decimal point, would result in 1.7...

Today, while watching a video by CJ Avilla, he used a neat little gem that describes the schema of the models in his project. At 8:32 (video is cued up below) he installs the Annotate gem and then...

Today, I fired up a new Ruby on Rails 7 application to follow along with a tutorial and found that when I ran the bin/dev command in the terminal, I was presented with an error page from the Cloud9...

What is Markdown Markdown is a markup language, created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, that allows you to easily format text by using special characters in a text document. When processed, the m...