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Ep.61 – Das Prompt or Prompting all the way to the Bank

Okay, so I re-watched “Das Boot” again recently and, of course, immediately thought, “what would this look like with cats?”: So, there it is!  I enjoyed the theme music to Das Boot too, but it then reminded me of a techno version from the early 90’s can you believe?   Anyway, what the heck does this have to […]

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Ep.60 – Heart of Glass

Okay, you might not be as old as I but surely you remember Blondie! Heart of Glass But heart of glass is what we are talking about today – when talking about all of this data we are creating! Where does that data go?  how is it stored?  well, in most cases, the data is […]

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Ep.59 – The ARC of Truth or Browser in this case

Another browser?  Well, a browser with some nifty tricks up its sleeves perhaps!  It also still uses the chromium engine, so no worries about another browser compatibility war! The browser company has developed a new bundle of AI-powered features called Arc Max. The goal of Arc Max is to make the internet experience faster and easier […]

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Ep.58 – Whisper AI and searchable audio

Okay, I am not sure they sell Wispa chocolate bars internationally, but worry not, this podcase has nothing to do with chocolate (sadly!). Use Whisper AI to transcribe audio from video/different audio formats in any language and produce the text of the audio We are talking Whisper AI from the good folks who brought (and totally […]

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Ep.57 – Podman vs Docker vs Pacman

So, is it game over for Docker?  probably not! What is Podman then? “PodMan is a container engine that helps us with developing containers, managing both the containers and the images, and deploying containers.” On the surface, very similar to Docker i.e. Podman runs containers from images just like Docker.  However: Daemon-less Approach PodMan uses […]

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Ep.56 – What are Vectors and how are they used

Well, if you don’t get the joke in the title gif/images, then perhaps this will help (yes, it is an old movie but still very funny!).  I the “Airplane” movie is still one of my favs! So, vectors and what the heck they are all about.  Well, of late, vector databases have been getting a lot […]

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Ep.54 – Running Azure AI Services Locally

Yes! you can run (some!) Azure AI services locally! Rather than repeat, I have a blog post here to explain a little more.

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Ep.57 – Podman vs Docker vs Pacman

So, is it game over for Docker?  probably not! What is Podman then? “PodMan is a container engine that helps us with developing containers, managing both the containers and the images, and deploying containers.” On the surface, very similar to Docker i.e. Podman runs containers from images just like Docker.  However: Daemon-less Approach PodMan uses […]

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Ep.55 – BUN a clever replacement for NodeJS

Oh, I wish they had called this Bunee! So, another week another framework!  But this one is clever, I think.  BUN is a drop-in style replacement for NodeJS.  Aims to be much faster and includes a lot of things out of the box including its own package manager/bundler along with native support for tests and […]

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Ep.53 – Webstudio Open Source Web Builder

So, you want to quickly build a web page or web pages? You might be familiar with Squarespace, Wix, Webflow etc. all of which use these visual designers to help you quickly build the webpages you desire. The only issue is you are locked in to their platform hosting and of course monthly/yearly subscription costs. […]