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Well, another day another AI tool - for coding anyway.

I had a go at building a cross-platform mobile app using GitHub Copilot. It did eventually build something I wanted and better still, using best practices. But it did take some patience!

I have the fortunate (or unfortunate) position to not know when to give up ;)

So, also tried Claude Code. Bit more of a developer tool being a command line tool, but still pretty easy to get going. You do need an active Anthropic account (the people who created Claude Sonnet/Code) and at least $5 of credit. In the app I created, this was less than 5c! Try outsourcing that for that much!

Anyway, more of a weekend ramble this one! rather odd - I have a YouTube channel called “Just Fifteen Mins” but I think I might have to swap around the video and podcast channel at this rate!

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Well, do you want your own private VPN? Network all of your devices (including mobile!) together? oh, and yes for FREE?

Tailscale is definitely worth a look - take a listen to learn more!

FREE! Yes, indeedy for personal use.

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JSON is all around us. How do you make sense of all of that JSON data?

JSONata

A suggestion from a good friend of mine Tim Abell - he also has a fab podcast from properly in the dev trenches! I’m just waiting until Tim just takes the next leap and becomes a symbol ;)

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Well now, the explosion of vector databases is overwhelming (yes, not just “whelming”).

I have been playing around with PostgreSQL pg-vector but if you use Microsoft SQL for your main day-to-day stuff, then vector support is coming! It is in preview for Azure SQL databases as well as SQL 2025 (preview).

Okay, if you are not sure what a vector even is (in AI terms) then:

In artificial intelligence (AI), a vector is a mathematical representation of data, such as words, images, or other entities, in a multi-dimensional space. Each vector consists of a list of numbers that capture the essential features or characteristics of the data it represents. This numerical representation allows AI models to process and analyze complex information more effectively.

Vectorizing Words:

To enable AI systems to understand and manipulate human language, words are converted into vectors through a process called word embedding. This process involves mapping each word to a high-dimensional vector space, where words with similar meanings are positioned closer together. For example, the words "king" and "queen" would be represented by vectors that are near each other in this space, reflecting their semantic similarity.

Link to the MS announcement

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Well, why would you use Docker when Podman is free/open source?

It is a good question!

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Well, a boring episode no doubt, but is prompt engineering still a thing?

What do you think?

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Taking the Raspberry PI concept a little further and providing a Linux platform, the Mecha Comet is (hopefully!) going to change how I look at Linux computers for sure!

It has a modular design, snap-on extensions and lots of cool stuff! It can be a phone, games machine, electronic fiddling machine, you name it!

Definitely worth checking out!

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Oh goodness me, what a way to start 2025!

Agentic systems - AI Agents - are indeed getting better and better (or worse?).

Today we look at Magentic One and Autogen. We also discuss the split of Autogen from the original founders. Take a listen to learn more!

Magentic One

Autogen

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Well, although I am a long-term user of OneNote, UpNote might just tempt me away!

UpNote has an app for every platform (even Linux no less!) and syncs across seamlessly. A free version exists but also a very cheap monthly version as well as a really cheap lifetime deal.

Worth a look? well, take a listen to learn more :)

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Just a ramble about 2024 and the ever present AI goldrush…

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