Introducing BrainStrike Starter kit for Node.js + Typescript + React.js + Apollo GraphQL + TypeORM — Introduction It’s always good to have a working recipe for developing modern applications, and it’s important to keep your tools up to date… stack decisions are incredibly important. …

C++ vs. Native: Speed, cost, YouTube transcriptions, visualizations, and benchmarks — Introduction OpenAI’s Whisper has come far since 2022. It once needed costly GPUs, but intrepid developers made it work on regular CPUs. They even got it running on Android phones! Transcriptions matter more than ever for large language model applications like ChatGPT and GPT-4. I wanted to create an app to…

Leveraging Reddit content generation and gaining insights from the development process — June 15th 2023 Update: Follow up article talking about new model support (Anthropic + GPT 16k), Reddit controversy and more: Transforming Reddit Summarization With Claude 100k and GPT 16k Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has achieved rapid growth, breaking records for the fastest-growing user base. …

Unlocking the power of larger context windows — This is a follow-up to Building a Reddit Thread Summarizer With ChatGPT API. See that article for some context and information about how I built the app's first version. July 12th, 2023 Update Added support for Claude V2 June 13th, 2023 OpenAI has rolled out several exciting updates that improve the capabilities of its GPT models while…

using fine tuned AI models to synthesize your own subjects with personalized styles — Update Feb.19.23: I wish I had time to explore more but I’m working hard on some AG-Tech issues @ my company Indigo. I haven’t even had time to formally prepare my release… but here’s some hot tips off the press — use ControlNet to add even more personal creative context. …

Ideas for managing time whilst working from home during a pandemic — Introduction I began working for a large agricultural tech startup at the start of March 2020. I’m a software engineering tech lead — I only spent 2 weeks in my new workplace before being asked to work from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. I’ve been working from home…

GraphQL API Framework with strong conventions and auto-generated schema — Introduction Warthog is a Node.js GraphQL API framework for quickly building consistent GraphQL APIs that have sorting, filtering and pagination out of the box. It is written in TypeScript and makes heavy use of decorators for concise, declarative code. Version 1.0 was released July 2018, and has just hit version 2.9.2…

I used AC3 for a month, here’s what I learned — I’ve been using the Apollo platform for almost two years now. I’ve used it on several commercial applications, and it’s become one of my all-time favorite frameworks. With the upcoming release of Apollo Client 3, I thought it would be an excellent time to test out the latest beta and…

How to approach unit, integration and E2E testing with a TypeORM/TypeScript/GraphQL API (Updated 2/1/2020) — Introduction Figuring out how to write automated tests for an ORM can be really difficult. There are many different ways to approach the problem and good explanations can be hard to find. This article is about my experience developing ORM tests, strategies, and how to get them working with GitHub actions…