frAIday - Free AI day 2

This is my second article about frAIday (first one) It was easy today, not to work with any AI service today. Why? I am on vacation! And against my nature at work, I try for being offline as much as possible. Therefore no service supported by any AI was used. Did I miss AI? Again, simple answer: No! Isn’t it? During that day I used my smartphone once and ordered an article using my PC....

August 30, 2024 · 2 min · Daniel Seichter

Oh my god - it's Open Source!

It’s close for the first monthly, that I released all my software as Open Source. I have to say: WOW! I did the release of the following software: AWSManager WorkDir GitHubIssueClient RunIfExists VATValidation (fka. my commercial software) Feedback I received less feedback than expected, but more than nothing. Sure, without promoting it, who will find it? Without any analytics, how should I know, how often it was downloaded? But this is exactly what I want to do....

August 15, 2024 · 2 min · Daniel Seichter

Hole in the wall

It’s friday evening and I just finalized the cleaning of a room from all old stuff. Freeing a room from collected garbage is like freeing your mind from all those topics that can make you crazy. It’s raining outside, it’s dark outside and I am sitting in front of my computer and read all the mails and news I missed. The best offering of a new job. The company was happy to find me at linkedin....

August 2, 2024 · 4 min · Daniel Seichter

frAIday - Free AI day

AI here, AI there, I use it everywhere. But do we really need AI everyday? Where are the times when developers searching around Stack Overflow, got inspiration by blog articles of people, having the same problem. Or, who knows them, reading references and documentations about libraries, API specifications etc. Stop being a Copilot Since there are several tools, ChatGPT, Copilot (the Microsoft and the GitHub), different whisperer tools, some you can’t pronounce, some you feel like in a museum of arts....

July 25, 2024 · 3 min · Daniel Seichter

Let us build wxPython whl

It doesn’t matter, which application I build. The build step of pyinstaller runs about half an our only because of compiling the wxPython whl file. This whl package is used to create the binary file for Linux. There are some ready to use whl files as wxPython extras. But they do not fit for my environment. Therefore I have to find a way, how can I build it on my own and reuse it for all my application....

July 23, 2024 · 2 min · Daniel Seichter