Author: Zandra
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AI is Your 24-hr Virtual Assistant
Coming back from a conference or event with dozens of business cards? (Or worse – handwritten sticky notes) Ain’t nobody got time to sit down and type up all these cards and notes manually one by one. Back in the day, you used to need a card reader machine, or more recently, a card scanning…
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Launching AI training for Women in Business
Rolling out to Queens businesses now, with the broader New York area access coming soon The best time to get started with AI was perhaps a few years ago. The second-best time is now! That’s what I’m sharing with female founders, women in business, and women-owned businesses in Queens, NY. The takeaway is — if…
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Installing Linux on Asus ROG Strix, part 2
Well, I got the main partition resized thanks to this blog post. It was turning off things like hibernation and system restore. Then I shrank the Windows partition down to about 98 GB. Take that, Windows! After a reboot, it was pretty smooth sailing. After installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers and restarting with a special…
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Installing Linux on Asus ROG Strix G16
How to lose your hair quickly A trip to Microcenter is a candy store-like experience with good customer service and great selection. I bought a brand-new Asus ROG Strix, despite the exquisitely obnoxious branding and lighting, for my next Linux box. I was told that for warranty purposes, should anything occur and I need to…
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Mozilla’s NSS package on Windows 10 (when Chocolatey fails you)
I recently needed certificate handling for some CraftCMS development. Using Chocolatey, I tried installing mkcert and nss (Network Security Services) but got the following error: nss not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed.Source(s): ‘https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/’ (Yes, I have still not fully switched back to 🐧Linux yet! Getting there, but I am still…
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Fun with Streamlit apps and LM Studio
Taking a fun course with Lonely Octopus, I’ve been learning how to use pandas to clean data for analysis, and also how to quickly build a proof of concept/MVP using Streamlit. Installing Streamlit locally on Windows in Gitbash threw an error: $ pip install streamlit WARNING: Failed to write executable – trying to use .deleteme…
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JobsTrek app – new dashboard and styling
A big issue with my job tracking app for jobseekers was the terrible colors. “Just build an MVP, don’t worry about aesthetics,” was the vibe that led me to the weird green background color. But that’s gone, now that a slick new ‘skin’ has been applied — the Argon dashboard for Django, an open-source package.…
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Career coaching and the dev job hunt
I’ve been giving free resume reviews on a couple of Discords for a few months now. Seeing some patterns appear — people are bemoaning the ghosting and the fake job posts, but still using the same approach and blaming their resumes. So I made a video on the importance of and how to follow up…
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Side project, JobsTrek, YouTube channel
Oh yes, I am officially a YouTuber (cue fanfare.wav). In case you missed it: here’s a video walkthrough of the JobsTrek app. (Discussion of the code starts here.) I was a bit sleepy when I made this one, so let’s just says it’s not exactly electrifying YouTube. But I did enjoy making it! Someday I’ll…
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Trying out Ignite with a new Android project
Because I have some free time this evening (wow!) I thought I’d burrito-ify myself in front of the computer and finally make a photo viewer Android app for myself. Let me back up a bit — since LG stopped making phones, I was forced to get a Motorola phone recently. It’s nice and all, but…