Did I really just commit and push a file with a password in it?–Remove all...
Surely I would never be so stupid as to commit a file that contains sensitive information – say my Oracle Cloud account’s private key. And even if I did, I would not push that change to a public git...
View ArticleUpdate Go on Linux
It turned out to be a fairly small deal. For reference sake a brief write up of updating the Go runtime on my Ubuntu environment. Current version: go version Find latest releases of Go at...
View ArticleGitHub Copilot reduces writing Java boilerplate to two simple comments
GitHub Copilot helped me write a Java application to process a CSV file. Not a hard task – though one that in Java always feels much harder than in Python or Node. This time round – because of Copilot...
View ArticlePlatys – generate a customized container powered Data Platform environment
Platys is a tool created by Guido Schmutz, architect and data specialist at Accenture and frequent teacher at various universities. In order to be able to quickly create an environment to investigate a...
View ArticleMeesterschap Onthuld: Wat Topchefs en Coders Gemeen Hebben!
Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het alsof koken en softwareontwikkeling twee totaal verschillende werelden zijn. Maar laten we eens dieper graven en ontdekken of er toch verrassende overeenkomsten...
View ArticleBuilding a high-performance API using GPT-4
Can the power of GPT-4 be leveraged to build a high-performance API? In this article we will instruct GPT-4 to build a high-performance API in GoLang using Protocol Buffers & gRPC. Table of...
View ArticleBuilding a Multi-Persona Chat App with LLMs: Prompt Engineering, Reasoning,...
Recently, I started working on a multi-persona chat application as a hobby project. You can find it here, along with complete documentation on how to set it up and what it does. The interactions...
View ArticleWill AI-Assisted Software Engineering frustrate Innovation? Is there bias in...
AI Assisted software engineering (with the likes of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, Roo Code and LLM of your choice) maybe bad for innovation, I fear. Why? Because these assistants are much...
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