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A Crowded LLM Field: Making Sense of AI Tooling
ai
llm
Feb 28, 2025
AI and the Illusion of Mastery: Software Engineering Skills in the Age of LLMs
ai
software
Feb 28, 2025
AWS Free Tier After One Year—Cost Breakdown
aws
Feb 27, 2025
Key Insights: “Which Economic Tasks Are Performed with AI?”
ai
claude
anthropic
Feb 25, 2025
The Unreasonable Ones: Humanity’s Role in an AI World
humanity
ai
Feb 20, 2025
How I Use AI Tools Everyday: Leveraging Claude and ChatGPT
ai
chatgpt
claude
copilot
llm
Feb 13, 2025
Book Excerpt: ‘The Bedrock of Generative AI’
book
Feb 6, 2025
Hosting Writebook on AWS
aws
writebook
Sep 13, 2024
AWS S3 Website Pretty URLs (Solved with CloudFront Functions)
aws
jekyll
chatgpt
Jul 20, 2024
Daily Standup: The Status Update Trap
agile
stand-up
Jul 7, 2024
ChatGPT-4o Initial impressions on latest model (with citations)
ai
llm
chatgpt
May 15, 2024
Finding llm training data limits
chatgpt
llm
ai
May 13, 2024
Search Safari history by timestamp
safari
sqlite
Apr 15, 2024
What's in your software product?
open-source
business
Apr 9, 2024
Modified({fieldname}) no longer works
2014
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 28, 2014
Keep code base clean – avoid unnecessary variable assignments
2011
txcowboycoder
php
Jul 14, 2011
Embedding CSS file in html e-mail
2011
txcowboycoder
php
css
Jul 13, 2011
Porting DATE_TO_CHAR function to PostgreSQL
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
PostgreSQL
Jul 11, 2011
Reverse PostgreSQL into model with undefined data types
2011
txcowboycoder
odi
PostgreSQL
Jun 30, 2011
Pass object association by reference via & to save resources
2011
txcowboycoder
php
Jun 15, 2011
Creating fields via SQL vs creating fields via structure editor
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jun 8, 2011
Allow NULL values in 4DB engine
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jun 7, 2011
Automatic cron backup of PostgreSQL database
2011
txcowboycoder
PostgreSQL
Jun 3, 2011
Use 4D header macro to identify code blocks
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jun 2, 2011
Generic 4D error catcher
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jun 1, 2011
Clear empty object methods to avoid developer confusion
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
May 25, 2011
Java string comparison
2011
txcowboycoder
java
May 23, 2011
4D ‘blank’ user locked record
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
May 20, 2011
Encapsulate form/object methods with form event case statements
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
May 3, 2011
Toggle off 4D form events for easier debugging
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
May 2, 2011
4D Forms to have layers instead of limited number of ‘views’
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Apr 29, 2011
Use CAST in 4D volatile SQL statements
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Apr 26, 2011
Compiler warning on possible loss of precision
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Apr 25, 2011
Scenarios listed in Operator view are same as Designer view
2011
txcowboycoder
odi
oracle
Apr 12, 2011
Error when purging log unable to extend tablespace ‘UNDO’
2011
txcowboycoder
odi
oracle
Apr 11, 2011
This month’s date range
2011
txcowboycoder
php
Apr 1, 2011
4D Linux ODBC Driver
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 31, 2011
4D DSN-less ODBC connection
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
odbc
Mar 30, 2011
MySQL command options
2011
txcowboycoder
mysql
Mar 21, 2011
Return stack size information with PROCESS PROPERTIES
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 21, 2011
4D Delay Process should not accept negative numbers
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 18, 2011
4D text interpolation
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 11, 2011
4D Log Event command and log level importance
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 8, 2011
4D record locked in read only mode
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Mar 2, 2011
Get last month’s date range in PHP
2011
txcowboycoder
php
Feb 10, 2011
4D Execute on sever command vs method checkbox differences
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jan 31, 2011
4D based mirror component – take two
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jan 28, 2011
Count SQL users command
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jan 27, 2011
ODBC Tracing on Windows 2003 server
2011
txcowboycoder
iis
odbc
Jan 26, 2011
4D Full variable introspection in debugger window
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jan 23, 2011
4D unary operator (read i++)
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jan 21, 2011
4D Database timestamp makes no sense
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
odbc
Jan 20, 2011
Epoch/Unix timestamp command
2011
txcowboycoder
4D
Jan 19, 2011
Ruby Rakefile auto executes includes
2011
txcowboycoder
ruby
rake
Jan 17, 2011
WordPress engine fail on embeded smilies in source
2011
txcowboycoder
wordpress
Jan 16, 2011
Active record find_each in batches
2011
txcowboycoder
ruby
ruby-on-rails
Jan 13, 2011
svn: Can’t move /.svn/tmp/entries: Operation not permitted
2011
txcowboycoder
svn
Jan 10, 2011
Request Tracker to Redmine Migration
2011
txcowboycoder
ruby
redmine
request-tracker
Jan 7, 2011
Rubies for the holidays
2011
txcowboycoder
ruby
Jan 6, 2011
SVN client/server version mismatch
2010
txcowboycoder
svn
Dec 15, 2010
svn: Argument list too long
2010
txcowboycoder
svn
Nov 29, 2010
Set enterable for list box object not just columns
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 24, 2010
HTML Structure export blurs the line on fields and it’s comments
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 23, 2010
Method editor search with wrap option
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 19, 2010
Define constants without a plugin
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 18, 2010
4Dv11.8 drag and drop with list boxes header gotcha
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 17, 2010
Windows get CPU usage command
2010
txcowboycoder
batch
Nov 16, 2010
Auto execute psql commands via batch file
2010
txcowboycoder
PostgreSQL
Nov 11, 2010
Import SQL files via psql command line scheduled task
2010
txcowboycoder
python
Nov 11, 2010
New 4D variable data type – float
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 11, 2010
Currently displayed form command
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 9, 2010
New Database event – On Transaction Validate
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 4, 2010
Merge command/control down key functions
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 3, 2010
Validate 4d string data with regex by data type
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Nov 3, 2010
Is record number valid – command
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Oct 31, 2010
SVN Windows and ‘._’ Apple double files
2010
txcowboycoder
svn
Oct 28, 2010
Postgres dynamic trigger — mirroring
2010
txcowboycoder
PostgreSQL
4D
python
Oct 27, 2010
Infinite is a real number in 4D
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Oct 22, 2010
Exception handling – try/catch/finally
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Oct 21, 2010
Mirroring 4D data to another database
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Oct 20, 2010
4th Dimension v11
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Oct 13, 2010
SQL Based view
2010
txcowboycoder
4D
Oct 13, 2010
Flex 4.0 drag-and-drop with skins
2010
txcowboycoder
apache-flex
Apr 14, 2010
flex 4 compile error “‘mxmlContent’ must be contiguous”
2010
txcowboycoder
apache-flex
Apr 13, 2010
3.5 to 4.0 Flex SDK upgrade
2010
txcowboycoder
apache-flex
Apr 8, 2010
LDAP Authentication
2010
txcowboycoder
java
apache-flex
Apr 8, 2010
MySQL Stored Routines
2010
txcowboycoder
mysql
rtfm
Apr 8, 2010