Software

Well, it’s been a minute! 1 pandemic and 2 children later, I’m thrilled to be back in the driving seat at Any One Thing. …

2 weeks ago I ran into deep trouble. I was running into an error while trying to install the MySQL server on my ubuntu desktop. I tried to read configuration directions on nice sites like Digital Ocean and Atlassian to no avail. In fact, I remember spending two hours straight…

Arthur C. Clarke’s third law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In my opinion, generative AI will be the closest thing to magic that we will have for a long time. Conjuring images, videos, sounds, worlds, and programs, simply through the power of our language. This…

When we formed our teams, we looked for principles that resonated with our ideas of simplicity, modularity and continual testing of ideas by prototyping. We found that simplicity is crucial because complexity breeds chaos and disaster, especially when things go wrong, as they often do. We found inspiration in the…

One thing I’ve really enjoyed about myself recently, is that I look forward to a lesson from every situation. Every problem is there to be learned from and used to improve yourself. That’s feedback, but i digress. I went to GTBank today to get a new ATM card and I…

Prediction is only seen to be effective in the historical sense. We look back at the tales of great inventions, and build a story about how a great visionary (note they are regarded as having vision into the future) saw what the world would need next, and built such a…

The itertools module standardizes a core set of fast, memory efficient tools that are useful by themselves or in combination. Together, they form an iterator algebra making it possible to construct specialized tools succinctly and efficiently in pure Python. To read more about the functions in this module, check out…