Tutorial and explainerFine-tuning a GPT-2 language model and generating text with a Flask web app
Step-by-step guide for preparing a dataset, fine-tuning GPT-2, and serving generated text through a lightweight Flask UI.
Tutorial and explainer
Basic tech explainerIntroduction to API Versioning Best Practices
An overview of URI versioning, Accept headers, and other strategies teams use to evolve APIs without breaking clients.
Tech explainerSkulls: composing music with computer vision and a custom YOLO5 AI model
How I trained a custom YOLO5 model to identify sculpted skulls and use the detections to drive a generative music system.
Market analysisAPI Integrators Court Enterprise Business Players
How enterprise-focused API integrators package strategy, tooling, and delivery to serve large organizations.
TutorialTutorial: Raspberry Pi Zero W synthesizer
Building a pocket-sized musical instrument with a Pi Zero, Fluidsynth, and a browser-based controller.
Detailed project explainerEmbers: a breath-powered interactive installation
The story behind Embers, a collaborative installation that converts breath and motion into waves of light.
Tech explainer for cultural audienceLinux Gets Loud
Interviews with the developers behind the most popular Linux music tools and how they keep the ecosystem thriving.
Anecdotal case studyConnecting data, connecting families
When Brazilian dev shop Serrabits was challenged to come up with an online platform to preserve and connect the histories of 4,000 families in 40 cities, they chose DreamFactory. But, this audacious project had humble beginnings.
Case studyA mobile app for ski patrollers
Gary Meyer is a professional software architect and volunteer ski patroller at a major ski resort in Colorado. He loves the outdoors and he loves to code too. Looking for ways to fuse technical innovation with volunteer interests, Meyer couldn’t help but wonder how mobile tech...
Algorithmic stock trading Math and Money on Wall Street
Before the recent Wall Street crisis took hold, my knowledge of the stock market came from Trading Places. Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy stick it to the man by gaming frozen concentrated orange juice futures using pit traders on the stock exchange floor. My idea of short sellin...
Report on local tech conferenceBarcampchs Reveals That Local Tech Community is Thriving
Around 200 BBQ-munching digerati invaded the Lowcountry Innovation Center for the first annual Barcampchs “un-conference” on Saturday. Billed as an “ad-hoc un-conference,” the event was a gathering of mostly techy types who wanted to share ideas and solidify what’s normally a ...
Comparison of browser technologyGoogle’s latest browser steals the best and ignores the rest
I guess Google founders, Larry and Sergey, have had their propellers spinning lately. They’ve taken time off cruising around their Lego castles on Segways long enough to contemplate their next move towards global domination: web browsing.
Security reportSecure browsing flaw reveals a nasty exploit
Fruit is lame. Cookies are the way to go. When I saw the big blue fur dude yell "cookeeez!" and stuff his face with crumbly goodness, I knew me and Cookie Monster would get along fine. But I was crushed to see he’s been dabbling in “grey hat” SSL exploit hacking. The gleefully...
Advice for private web sharingTech Advice for Dissident Bloggers
A few years ago, Shi Tao, a business reporter for the Hunan-based Contemporary Business News, forwarded an official press release from the Chinese government regarding the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests to an outside site. He used his free Yahoo! account. Ch...
Tech workers on Isreal/Palestine borderg.ho.st IS the machine
It is the same old routine: Make coffee, get kids ready for school, check news for any traffic jams. Hmm, what is this? Overnight rocket attacks have caused the government to close the bridge into town until further notice?
Irreverent security explainerAn underground scouting report on Lowcountry wi-fi hotspots
The truth is out there, and it’s a detailed log of what you’ve been up to. Buried in the digital noise of internet packet traffic, cell network requests, and VIC card grocery lists is a record of what you do while on the grid. Dark rooms with racks of whirring fans cooling har...