https://mitchcraver.com/ A Mac Admin and programmer sharing throughts and learnings on all sorts of topics. 2024-05-31T17:10:26-07:00 Mitch Craver https://mitchcraver.com/ Jekyll © 2024 Mitch Craver /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2024-05-31T17:00:00-07:00 2024-05-31T17:00:00-07:00 https://mitchcraver.com/2024/05/31/i-am-quitting-duolingo-after-748-days Mitch Craver

It’s been fun, Duo After dedicating over two years (748 days) to learning Spanish using Duolingo, I’ve decided that I’m done. While I’ve learned a lot and made good progress, I’m just not feeling it anymore–the excitement has dried up and my motivation has disappeared. Using Duolingo feels more like a chore and paying for Super makes it even more frustrating. Even though I would complete a...

2024-05-16T12:43:00-07:00 2024-05-17T09:04:25-07:00 https://mitchcraver.com/2024/05/16/sorting-months-by-fiscal-year-in-r-a-simple-solution Mitch Craver

Today, I worked with a dataset containing month numbers and corresponding values, and when sorted by month number, it gives the expected 1-12 order. However, this data needed to be sorted using fiscal year calendar (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). I had to go back and think about how to sort months for fiscal years all over again. If you are trying to custom sort months for fiscal year...

2024-04-11T06:30:00-07:00 2024-04-11T06:30:00-07:00 https://mitchcraver.com/2024/04/11/my-2024-reading-list Mitch Craver

In no particular order, here is my reading list for this year (next 6 months?). The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz) Accelerate (John P Kotter) Nudge (Richard H Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein) Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life (Rory Sutherland) Decisive (Chip Heath & Dan Heath) Outsmart Your Brain (Daniel T Willingham) ...

2024-04-10T09:43:00-07:00 2024-04-10T10:37:26-07:00 https://mitchcraver.com/2024/04/10/running-local-llms-with-ollama Mitch Craver

When I first started working with LLMs, my concern was the amount of data being sent up to a big company who would invest the data to make more recommendations. A big concern I had was also related to people send up PII or sensitive information without realizing that every request is saved and could potentially be used in a response to another user. After digging through some articles and wa...

2023-03-17T17:12:00-07:00 2023-03-17T17:12:00-07:00 https://mitchcraver.com/2023/03/17/generate-word-count-and-reading-time-for-posts-in-rails Mitch Craver

A few weeks ago, I watched a video from Dean at Deanin on YouTube where he showed how to use StimulusJS to generate reading times for posts/articles in his demo application. In his video, he used a split method to get the number of words in the article. He then divided that number by 265, which is an approximation for the number of words adult humans can read in one minute. According to var...