Need a ChatGPT API server for quick prototyping? Let’s make an endpoint and deploy it with Vercel, for free! — Motivation Need a ChatGPT API server for quick prototyping? Let’s make an endpoint and deploy it with Vercel, for free! TLDR: you get an endpoint that you can POST JSON to the endpoint will return JSON with the response from “ChatGPT” it’s done via OpenAI’s official text completion API using the…

We will explore the limitations and benefits of using regular expressions to create a simple Markdown parser in TypeScript. Spoiler alert — not a good way to do it — Motivation Markdown is a markup language that has gained immense popularity in recent years. Besides being used as a convenient way to create content that generates full-blown static websites (via engines such as Gatsby.js …

Utilize VSCode snippets to simplify the creation of new posts — Motivation I write my blog posts in Markdown and my personal site is powered by Gatbsy.js. Within a Markdown file, there are frontmatter and content. Frontmatter is a YAML block that contains the post’s metadata such as title, date and description. …

About one year ago, I had no idea how to contribute to open-source projects and yet it was something that I really wanted to do… — Motivation About one year ago, I had no idea how to contribute to open-source projects and yet it was something that I really wanted to do. I read articles and watched YouTube videos that provided good suggestions and resources, but somehow I just could not get over the initial hurdle and…

Hi Darren, Thank you for your thoughtful article! I liked that you used a concrete example throughout the article to explain how one can decompose monolith projects into microservice-powered applications. Just on the writing itself, I think it is great that you considered both angles, showing us the problems, the…

Motivation According to Oracle’s the Java tutorials: You use lambda expressions to create anonymous methods. Sometimes, however, a lambda expression does nothing but call an existing method. In those cases, it’s often clearer to refer to the existing method by name. …

P.S. Finally back with another quick article on something that I learned during (yet another) late-night discussion. Motivation While browsing through the codebase of a brownfield project that I am currently working on as part of my school work, I found the following lines weird at a glance. public class StorageManager…

Recently I found an opportunity to help a local non-profit organization to revamp their WordPress site with a new theme that they have purchased. Nothing too difficult here since we are using visual editors (Elementor, and some custom CSS when functionalities are limited), and a purchased theme has already provided…

I discussed generics and bounded wildcards in the below article. Bounded Generic Types & Wildcards - [OOP & Java #6] Continuing on the topic of Generics: Think of the word "bounded" literally - limit something to a range of possible…dev.to While I covered most of the basics about generics and wildcards, there are still areas requiring further attention and discussion. In this article, I would like to pen down some subtleties with regard to unbounded wildcards.