I’ve been developing ContentOracle AI Chat, a plugin that adds a retrieval-augmented ai chatbot to WordPress websites for the past six months. Today, I’d like to take a look at the main features of my new plugin, and share some lessons learned and problems solved in the process of building a powerful retrieval-augmented chatbot for […]
I am building an Laravel web app to help me generate annotations for images. I will be using these annotated images to train computer vision object detection models. As a part of that app, I need to a way to store images uploaded by users so that I can later go in and add object […]
So you want to set up a new website for your business, church, or other organization? Great! Setting up a website is a critical step in the establishment of any organization. One of the most important steps when setting up a website is setting up a domain name to point to your website. A domain […]
Laravel is a powerful framework that offers a whole suite of built-in goodies meant to help enormously speed up application development. Blade, its built-in templating engine, and Eloquent, the ORM it ships with, are two of the most especially useful utilities Laravel brings to the table. As you build apps in Laravel, you will inevitably […]
What is GraphQL GraphQL is a powerful, expressive query language for APIs, as well as a runtime for using existing data to respond to these queries. Often viewed as the successor to REST APIs, it provides a concise and easily human-readable interface for querying your API for data and tasks. GraphQL offers a number of […]
Why Use Traefik Traefik is a powerful modern reverse-proxy program that makes it easy to manage API and web gateways. Including comprehensive support for modern standards such as middleware and multiple routing groups, it streamlines process of load-balancing and routing web traffic between multiple hosts. It is often used to route traffic between docker containers […]
The client showcase is back once again! This time, I’m pleased to share a business that I have been working with for the past couple months to bring their online sales strategy up to speed. That business is G. Kofi House of Fashion. The team at G. Kofi House of Fashion has a unique and […]
Are you interested in learning FastAPI and SQLModel? I recently started a new job, and I needed to learn their tech stack. The company implements a microservices architecture, interacting with their databases through micro-apis built using FastAPI, a popular new python package for api development, using the SQLModel library as an ORM and input validator. […]
It is very common in application and database design to keep fields on a table for when a record was created and last updated. These fields are common enough that many large frameworks like Laravel handle them automatically. SQLModel is a relatively new Python library that combines the data validation of Pydantic with the ORM […]
Tower Presbyterian Church is the first client to be featured here in my client project showcase. It is an ECO Presbyterian Church in Grove City, Pennsylvania, just a short walk down the road from my alma mater, Grove City College. After attending church there for the latter half of my college career, I finally got […]
