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I was playing around with OpenAI (GPT-3) today, building a reasonably complicated email parser for a client. I was running into issues working with the AI’s response. Because OpenAI (GPT-3) is based on a natural...

Personally, I am not a big fan of Wikipedia. When I was studying vector mathematics for my Masters of Machine Learning degree I tried to use Wikipedia to understand some of the key concepts. It was like walking into a...

The capacity to swiftly and accurately translate material into another language is a crucial advantage in today’s environment. With advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), it is now easier than ever to obtain...

You may frequently need to extract crucial information from emails in your role as a developer. This might be done to extract the sender’s identity, a list of the companies referenced in the email, or the email’s...

What would ChatGPT say?The Thought ProcessWhile going through some conference videos regarding Ruby and trying out some of the newly added features, I got to something called .bind and .bind_call. There weren’t...

In recent years, OpenAI and its potent AI models have proliferated online, drawing a lot of interest and acclaim from programmers and tech enthusiasts all around the world. The models developed by OpenAI have shown an...

Take a trip into the FediverseMastodon is different from most online services. It is a federated network, so when you set up an account you need to choose a server to use. Your username then becomes a combination of...

We recently moved a client’s ActiveJob processor from Sidekiq to GoodJob. In this article I want to share why we did it, how we did it, and our immediate first impressions having done it. First of all, some...

So I’ve been getting up to speed on the Mastodon codebase. Here are some notes on getting to green tests locally. Aside: I generally prefer, in order: Improve a project so it needs less documentation to get...

n+1 queries are a common problem in web application development. This common pattern (or antipattern) can degrade application performance by increasing server response times and by placing additional strain on limited...

For as long as I've been a part of the Rails community, I can always remember hearing "fat models, skinny controllers". Afterall, it is a good goal to reduce the size of your controller and scope of business...

The middleware component sits between the client and the server, processing inbound requests and outbound responses. The middleware is used for tasks that are not related to business logic of your application.A list of...

For the past several weeks, I've been trying to fix a cranky spec in Karafka integrations suite, which in the end, lead me to become a Ruby on Rails micro-contributor and submitting similar fix to several other...

Disclaimer: I am not suggesting to change the Ruby style guide. At a workshop I was giving a few years ago, someone not used to writing Ruby code found an interesting way, that you can write Ruby code. First let’s...

Service objects and/or after_commit callbacks are ubiquitous in most real-world Rails applications. Whether it’s a good idea or not (ActiveRecord callbacks - I’m looking at you) is a different story, but one thing...