I launched despeech.com last month. It's a dead simple transcription API service that allows you to download and transcribe audio by posting a URL. Getting easy access to GPUs for transcription was one of the pain points I had when working with audio data in my last
This week Supabase held their first ever select conference in San Francisco. It was stuffed with incredible speakers and developers. The whole event is up on youtube so you can watch through if you didn't attend. It's incredible to see how far Supabase has come since
No, this isn't the title of the latest in a Danny Boyle series. It's been a while since my last update. In fact, it's been over a year! Sorry about that - but I've been pretty busy. The contract work I started
I recently returned from a working holiday. I spent a few days away with the family experiencing some very beautiful farm views whilst housesitting in Herefordshire. Even though I was away I was still able to work, all whilst I and the family got to enjoy the sights and sounds
This month we've seen so much activity from different providers bringing out new AI tools. I got to play with groq - a provider capable of crazy speeds of over 500 tokens/s, Anthropic have just dropped Claude 3 which some have mistaken for AGI and the team
I talked a little last month about how one of my goals this year is to plan better. This was mostly in relation to my YouTube output which doesn't really have a regular cadence, but I've realised this is often affected heavily by how I feel
Back in January of last year I set 3 goals for 2023: to plan better, curb my expectations and create more digital products. So how did I do? I curbed my expectations pretty well, I know I shouldn't be beholden to algorithms and try not to expect the
I doubled my digital product revenue in 2023! Ok, it’s not a big number by any means, just shy of $1200. But it’s still money I now have from something I made a couple of years ago now and the year still isn’t quite over. I said
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Social media makes it really difficult to avoid comparing yourself to others. With views, subscribers and likes clearly on show it's shoved in your face on every post, video and interaction. When hearing of another dev either on YouTube, X or network of the month experiencing a bit
Last week I attended a workshop on setting up large language models from the ground up on Amazon Web Services. The setup process involved installing a whole bunch of Python libraries into Amazon Sagemaker over quite a few steps with a huge warning up front that attendees should "Ignore
Hey! This month my blog celebrated it's 20th Birthday and I turned myself into a slightly ropey version of Henry Cavill for YouTube. 20 years! That's a big number and one I don't take lightly. But it's how old my website is
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One of my recent youtube videos did pretty well last month. I tried out GPT Engineer and went through the motions of installing and attempting to code with it. Weirdly, on day four of it's release, YouTube decided to push it very hard totalling about +100K impressions over