This is probably the most remarkable New Year in my life. I am finally giving up 5 years of successful (personally) freelancing and consulting work and will be a full time employee of a company.
Backup all the files in a directory to Azure Cloud
I had to copy all the files from the home directory into a Azure Blob container today. All the regular folders without any of the dot files and dot folders.
NER Annotator / NER Tagger for Spacy
NER Annotator is now available to use directly from the browser
https://tecoholic.github.io/ner-annotator/
Featured on TheNextWeb & Lifehacker
Something really cool happened this week. I will let the tweets to take over.
Rediscovering Web Development
Despite the rapid advancement of tools and specifications, web development has pretty much involved the same set of actions for a developer.
Strapi - Optimizing REST API responses by preventing auto-population of relations
Strapi is an Open Source headless CMS based on NodeJS. It provides the backend admin tools to quickly create an API – both REST and GraphQL.
Strapi - Adding IsOwner Policy to the API
Strapi is an Open Source headless CMS based on NodeJS. It provides the backend admin tools to quickly create an API – both REST and GraphQL.
Product - Audience Quadrant
The Indiehackers podcast #152 Picking the Right Market to Get Started In with Justin Jackson and Tyler Tringas lays out this relationship quadrant between a product and the audience, which I think is a very important when thinking about a software business.
Strapi - Creating an API without a single line of code
Strapi is an Open Source headless CMS based on NodeJS. It provides the backend admin tools to quickly create an API - both REST and GraphQL. I picked this up for a quick project in place of my regular Python frameworks like Flask or Django, because I can have an API up and running without writing a single line of code.
Data Science - First Impressions
After some thoughts on what to learn next, I enrolled myself into IBM Data Science Professional Certificate program. It is beginner level program to provide the necessary foundations for Data Science. I have completed 3 courses so far: