ChatGPT needs some humility Reading time ~1 minute

It’s hot today in Michigan. High temps. High humidity. We turned down the thermostat a little bit, the AC kicked on, stayed on and didn’t really seem to be able to move the internal temperature. Several hours later I was curious… So… I opened up my Beestat app and gave......

I got my GitHub Copilot Certification Reading time ~1 minute

How I studied Used a community-owned practice exam Followed the Microsoft Learn modules Who should probably take this exam? People administering a GitHub Copilot rollout at their organization. My thoughts As a user of GitHub copilot, I thought the courses on prompt engineering and actual usage were pretty good but......

An interesting learning with SignGemma and the deaf community Reading time ~3 minutes

Google announced a new tool called SignGemma which they describe as “our most capable model for translating sign language into spoken text” I absent mindedly shared this in the GR Slack group I hang out in and a friend encouraged me to dig a little deeper into learning about how......

Getting the related work items for an Azure Pipeline run in a monorepo Reading time ~7 minutes

The problem.. I absolutely love this little ‘related work items’ feature in Azure DevOps pipelines: You can click on it and quickly get a view of the work items associated with that pipeline: This information is beneficial in two ways: It is useful information for the person running a deployment......

The quest for an ergonomic keyboard - Part 1 Reading time ~2 minutes

If you didn’t read my previous blog post I’m hunting for a good method for keeping my tech experiments going from my living room lazy boy. One of the key components to that is having a bluetooth ergonomic keyboard Why Bluetooth? If I’m going to be popping up a little......