In 2022, I saw the announcement of OpenAI’s DevDay come around, decided that it wasn’t practical this year and that I’d plan to go next year. Then I repeated that for the next two years. But not this year. This year, I finally submitted an application, anxiously waited for approval and booked tickets to San…
Recently, I did something that I should have started doing a long time ago, yet I’m still pleased with myself for doing it now. I saw a need for something in my own life and made it, albeit using the desire as my first experiment pair programming with AI. I’ve been on and off focused…
As a DevOps engineer who started his career working for companies using AWS and ended up working across the three major cloud providers, it’s been interesting to realize how easily knowledge of one cloud translates to another and how most cloud services are the way they are today based on older technologies which came before…
For the last 5 years, I’ve been working heavily in cloud and have used Terraform as a common tool for managing AWS, GCP and Azure environments. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has been an extremely helpful methodology for automating resource deployments as well as providing a sort of inventory for all of the various cloud resources…
At the recent AWS Global Summit in NYC, the mention of a course which was a collaboration between AWS and Deeplearning.AI called Generative AI with Large Language Models which seemed like a good way to learn more about the workings of LLMs. I recognized Andrew Ng from his hit AI for Everyone course when I…
I recently attended AWS’s Global Summit in New York City and don’t remember an AWS event with such a clear theme. As with the world in general, Generative AI was the focus everywhere from talks on prompt engineering, many existing vendors advertising their app’s new AI functionality and the keynote itself. Many new products and…
What is this site? Who is Nick? Are these the questions we ask ourselves? What is this site? The current purpose of this website is for Nick to convey his learnings and insights from working as a Software Developer / Cloud Engineer for the last five years. He will attempt to cement his understanding of…
As someone who got into programming through a non-traditional method I’ve always wondered what I would have learned with a traditional computer science degree that I didn’t get exposed to on my path. If I got confused on something or stuck on a bug, I’d assume that it was something I would have learned in…
I’ve reached the final course in my list and one that I’ve been pretty excited for. While I haven’t been the most consistent blogger, the first time I realized the blog could be useful for sticking to projects was with my series of posts going through Kaggle competitions. Before that, I’d started watching through machine…
While Computer Systems Engineering should be a course I’m excited for, this has been a course I’ve been somewhat dreading as it seems to have the least straightforward way of approaching it on MIT OpenCourseWare. Searching for it normally shows a version from 2018, however this only contains lecture slides and very scarce notes from…
Throughout my time coding, it often occurred to me that I had little knowledge about how computers work. I had a base level knowledge of bit calculations and knew compilers and interpreters were used to translate the high level Python code to instructions the computer could understand. This course goes into a lot more details…
