Almost Entirely Human
Software Developer | Perpetual Tinkerer | Builder of Interesting Things

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25
Apr
Episode 10 - What Your Content Looks Like in Embedding Space

Episode 10 - What Your Content Looks Like in Embedding Space

Yesterday, April 24th, 2025, I gave the closing keynote at the GIS in Action conference in Portland, OR. It was
8 min read
18
Apr
Episode 9 - How to Find Content like you Find Places on a Map

Episode 9 - How to Find Content like you Find Places on a Map

Part 2 of a series about building a blog summarizer tool.
8 min read
11
Apr
Episode 8 - One Summary to Rule Them All

Episode 8 - One Summary to Rule Them All

Part 1 of a series about how to build a summarizer of Blog posts.
13 min read
04
Apr
Episode 7 - Dear HAL, is This Drain Name Something I can say to my Mom?

Episode 7 - Dear HAL, is This Drain Name Something I can say to my Mom?

A quick look at an old idea I had a few years ago to use LLMs to filter or protect input data. Also a pretty good try by ChatGPT to make a four panel comic.
9 min read
28
Mar
Episode 6 – Where I Teach You to Build a Losing March Madness Bracket

Episode 6 – Where I Teach You to Build a Losing March Madness Bracket

In this episode, I show you how I used AI to make "average" March Madness brackets. Spoiler, they are not very good, but I learned how good AI is at impersonating a human for repetitive or tedious tasks.
9 min read
21
Mar
Episode 5 - From Words to Code (aka Coding by Vibe)

Episode 5 - From Words to Code (aka Coding by Vibe)

In Episode 5 we are going to look at how we think, how the web has evolved, and the shifts that are happening as AI and LLMs take on some aspects of software development – and explore what’s left for the Humans (spoiler: the fun parts, I think).
8 min read
14
Mar
Episode 4 - Disposable Apps

Episode 4 - Disposable Apps

Esri Developer and Technology Summit A quick shout out to everyone who attended my packed talk at the Esri Developer
6 min read
07
Mar
Episode 3 - Building a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner

Episode 3 - Building a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner

Welcome to Episode 3! This week, we will examine our first real-world coding example to build a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner. Yes, this was a real thing, that was really used!
10 min read
06
Mar
Building an AI Powered Basemap Renamer Thing

Building an AI Powered Basemap Renamer Thing

So, apparently, the Gulf of Mexico has a new name—at least according to Executive Order 14172. Now, whether or
8 min read
28
Feb
Episode 2 - Fuzzy Data Matching

Episode 2 - Fuzzy Data Matching

Welcome to Episode 2 where we complain about data quality and discuss how AI can help clean and match inconsistent data—a technique I call Fuzzy Data Matching.
12 min read