I am not too much a fan of what we call “artificial intelligence” today, as it is in most cases nothing else than very sophisticated pattern recognition. However, sometimes there are some interesting uses for it.Today I tried to get to learn a little bit of Middle English or Shakespearean English, just because it sounds so archaic and kind of fun. I asked GPT to give me sentences that I can type back to it, while also giving me a translation of each sentence and definitions for each new Shakespearean word we encounter. It worked pretty well.At the end I asked it to make me a full list of all the sentences, translations and definition. Here the output (Behold! Thy I hath not granted the guarantee that the GPT response art correct!). List of Sentences: List of Shakespearean words and their definitions with translations:
Read MoreTo generate random batch-job data, I wrote a small method to generate method names. Some of them got funny, and you might only find them in video game code. Here is a list of them, which one do you like the most!? 😃
Read MoreWith the Engineered Monitoring Platform, you have the possibility to fetch data from REST APIs.In this post we have a look at how you can fetch data from JIRA and display them on a dashboard.
Read MoreI was working with various IDEs through my career, but non of them had such bad default settings than IntelliJ. IntelliJ, trying to be “Context Aware”, will try to think for the developer and out of the box does a lot of stuff that isn’t necessary and also reduces productivity. Here is a list of things you can do to enhance your experience.
Read MoreI am currently creating a statistics management software. For that I needed some test data. I put together a small amount of code to create random job titles. Here is a list of some of the funniest that the generator spit out.I leave the interpretation to you what kind of work is connected with those jobs. Over-Emotional Organization Troublemaker Vital Information Destroyer Trustworthy Food Whisperer Digital Performance God Executive Software Ninja Vanishing Tiramisu Expert Professional Information Magician Clueless Security Administrator Lost Food Genius Chief Dream Deputy Aspiring Area Slave Effective Underworld Locator Lunatic Promotion Engineer Over-Emotional Cheerleader Accelerator Vanishing Software Director Neglected Conversation Registrar Chief Executive Cleaner Accredited Internet Neglector Abstract Cream Officer Vital Workaround Designer Accredited Catastrophe Administrator Master Unicorn Expert Logical Health Creator Chief Coping Genius Academic Media Whisperer Certified Dream Listener Satisfied Catastrophe Locator Overlord Machine Commander King Catastrophe Creator Invasive Screaming Magician Clueless Communication Genius Emergency Dream Secretary Global Revenue Creator Empowering Machine Demi-God Interim Screaming Alchemist Paranoid Dream Cruncher Overlord Money Idler Lunatic Management Manager Certified Cream In-Charge Clueless Steam Maker Aspiring Paradise Executive Sovereign Realm Emperor Official Workaround Searcher Apocalyptic Cheerleader In-Charge Mental Catastrophe Educator Lunatic Organization Genius Senior Screaming Executive Lead Cream Leader […]
Read MoreHave you ever searched for an image useful for a song cover or a video thumbnail, but didn’t find anything useful? I got your back! I created several free Pixabay images with exactly this purpose in mind.Most of the designs are round and centered, so that you can crop the image to a square and it still would look fine.Just place your text and whatever else you need on the design and you are ready to go.
Read MoreI’m currently working on an alerting mechanism for the Engineered Monitoring Platform. I had the idea to add random messages when an issue got resolved. I got a bit carried away and the following list is the result.The code can be found in the CoreFramework repository.
Read MoreMost of my products include PNG images, where a design is represented as black on a transparent background. People asked me how they can change the color of this design.Here I will describe a simple way how you can do that in the free tool GIMP.
Read MoreEver thought about what you could do to work faster in photoshop or other design tools? Do you know what negative effects it has if you don’t do it? Being able to work fast and speeding up your workflow is a main factor to success when it comes to creating designs and as well being satisfied by your own work. As faster you can work, as sooner your will get to a good product and you can spent more time on all the little details, that will add even more awesomeness to your masterpiece.
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