James Turk

New Quarto Site

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I’ve been wanting to write more for a while, and so decided to rebuild this site.

Automated Scraping with GPT, Part 2

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gpt

A couple of days ago I wrote about using GPT-4 to automate web scraping. I was…

Automated Scraping with GPT-4, Part 1

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gpt

(Part 2 now available: Automated Scraping with GPT-4, Part 2)

Moving from (n)vim to VS Code in 2023

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I’ve been a vim user for more than 15 years. Before then I would try a new editor every few months, Visual Studio, Komodo IDE, Kate, and JEdit are a few that I remember…

Federated

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If you’re around my age, you remember an internet dominated by niche message boards. Gaby Del Valle’s article did a great job capturing what was…

Postgres websearch in Django 3.1

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django

Earlier this week, Django 3.1 beta 1 was released. While the big news is the addition of asynchronous views and middleware, there’s a tiny feature I managed to get added that I wanted to bring a bit of attention to as it makes writing apps that use Postgres’ full text search a little easier…

Reclaiming Time with Twitter-as-RSS

I’m sure there’s a german word for that moment when you close Twitter then think to yourself “I wonder what is going on over at twitter-dot-com” and…

Deploying Static Sites to CloudFront

Like many developers, I’ve written my own blog software half a dozen times. I’ve probably spent a lot more time tweaking…