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Craft Quick Start Guides That Developers Will Love
Quick Start guides are your first handshake with developers. These guides are essential for getting developers onboard with your API or SDK. They’re the …
Blog
Thoughts on code, workflows, and developer experience. Also see my Ship30 essays.
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Setting Up Default Hugo Frontmatter
I’ve been using Hugo for my personal website, ajot.me, since migrating from Ghost, and I’ve really liked it thus far.
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Chain of Thought Prompting: A Powerful AI Technique
Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting is a technique that dramatically improves an AI’s ability to solve complex reasoning tasks by guiding it through a …
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A Weighted Points System for Cricket World Cup 2023
The 2023 Cricket World Cup is in full swing, and like many fans, I wanted to keep track of the points table.
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Exporting Media from Ghost CMS hosted on Digital Ocean
I recently moved my website from Ghost to Hugo. Ghost provides a built-in export function for content in JSON format (found in Labs under Settings), but it …
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Working Out in the Afternoon
I’ve been using this app called Rise Sleep for over a year now. Unlike many other sleep trackers, including the Oura ring, which focus on REM sleep and …
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Workflow
Technical Writing Assistant Prompt
This is a prompt I use when I need help with technical writing tasks. It’s designed to help improve clarity, identify inaccuracies, and enhance the …
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Workflow
Automating Weekly Review Date Headers with AppleScript and TextExpander
While reviewing my week in Day One, I like to kick things off with a heading that reads something like “Week of Date 1 to Date 2.” Sounds simple, …
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Quickly Cycling Through and Fixing Spelling Errors in VS Code Markdown Files
I wanted to cycle through and fix all spelling errors in a VS Code markdown file. I already had the spell-checking extension installed but couldn't figure out …
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Connecting ChatGPT to Google Drive
I recently built my very first app using ChatGPT’s API. Just followed @greggyb's super helpful guide to write my first ChatGPT app that queries a PDF …
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Automating Python Project Setup: A Shell Script to Create New Projects Quickly
As someone who loves experimenting with Python libraries and APIs, starting new projects quickly is important. Setting up these projects can sometimes be …
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Export Todos from Things App Using AppleScript
I had a bunch of todos in the Things app that I wanted to move to my notes. Manually copying them from the app didn’t grab the notes in the todo, which …
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Changing the Number of Posts Displayed Per Page in Ghost CMS
So, I wanted to customize the number of posts displayed per page on my Ghost CMS website using the Dawn theme. The default setting was showing only 5 posts, and …
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How to Globally Ignore .DS_Store Files in Git Repositories on a Mac
So, I got tired of adding `.DS_Store` to every git repo on my Mac. I was pretty sure there would be a better way to handle this on a global way on my Mac, so I …
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Resolving a 504 Timeout Error on Ghost with Digital Ocean
Woke up to a 504 error this morning. It's hosted on Digital Ocean, so I reached out to support, which wasn't very helpful. They basically said this, and then …
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Creating Custom Workflows in Warp.dev
I’ve been playing around with warp.dev, which is a new terminal app for Mac (Windows coming soon it looks like) with a focus on improving developer …
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Speeding Up Terminal Load Time: How I Fixed a 90-Second Delay by Cleaning Up .zshrc File
This answer on Reddit helped troubleshoot. I just commented everything, and it made the load lightening fast. Then, on a closer look, I found this mess. No idea …
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My Sublime Text 3 Setup: Aliases, Themes, and Terminal Fixes
Adding an alias to zshrc file Wanted to add an alias to quickly open Sublime Text editor from the command line. Here's how -
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Playing with APIs in Postman: Getting Code Samples and Curl Commands Quickly
Now that I am playing around a bit more frequently with APIs, especially Twitter’s v2 API, and Airtable’s API, I have found myself playing around a lot more …
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Playing Around with Postman
I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs. I just never got down to using it much. That changed quite a bit in …
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Create a Content Extension for Canva Using Flask
Saw this Quick Start guide on Canva’s developer portal that walks you through creating a content extension for Canva’s users. It uses Node.js and …
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How to Deploy a Flask App to Digital Ocean's App Platform
I recently went through the process to put my side project howbigisthebaby.io on Digital Ocean’s new app platform, and wanted to document it in case …
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The 'What Do You Do' Identity Crisis
When you work for someone else, the first sentence of your answer to the question - “what do you do?” (and your Twitter bio) is more or less taken care of. …
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Workflow
How to Add a Twitter CTA at the End of Each Article on Ghost CMS?
I recently saw a tweet that it's a good idea to have a CTA at the end of each article. In fact, Daniel Vassallo argued that the CTA should be pointing to …
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How to Apply for OCI (Overseas Citizen of India)
Documenting the steps I followed to apply for OCI recently. Fill out the online application form for OCI on the OCI website. This has two parts -