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You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering

(This post could also be titled "Features missing from most LLM front-ends that should exist")

Apologies for the snarky title, but there has been a huge amount of discussion around so called "Prompt Engineering" these past few months on all kinds of platforms. Much of it is coming from individuals who are peddling around an awful lot of "Prompting" and very little "Engineering".

Most of these discussions are little more than users finding that writing more creative and complicated prompts can help them solve a task that a more simple prompt was unable to help with. I claim this is not Prompt Engineering. This is not to say that crafting good prompts is not a difficult task, but it does not involve doing any kind of sophisticated modifications to general "template" of a prompt.

Others, who I think do deserve to call themselves "Prompt Engineers" (and an awful lot more than that), have been writing about and utilizing the rich new eco-system

How to setup a practically free CDN using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,

How to download vimeo VOD for offline usage

Variant 1: `yt-dlp`

Using yt-dlp (thank you @ayyucedemirbas!)

You must have a Vimeo account, do not sign in via Google or anything else, yt-dlp asks for your email address and password to log in.

You must install the yt-dlp via the command below (for MacOS):

Lacón

Por cada bebida te dejan elegir entre 5 tapas. Están muy ricas, especialmente son famosos los callos con garbanzos. No vale la pena entrar a comer de carta, sólo pedir cañas y probar la tapa.

Almacén de vinos

Las tapas muy ricas, especialmente el queso y el embutido

Bodegas la Ricla

This notes is written by Sheldon. You can find me with #iOSBySheldon in Github, Youtube, Facebook, etc.

Need

Convert .mov/.MP4 to .gif

Reason

As a developer, I feel better to upload a short video when I create the pull request to show other viewers what I did in this PR. I tried .mov format directly got after finishing recording screen using Quicktime, however, gif offers preview in most web pages, and has smaller file size.

This is not limited to developer, anyone has this need can use this method to convert the files.

Methods of Signing Git Commits on MacOS

Last updated March 13, 2024

This Gist explains how to sign commits using gpg in a step-by-step fashion. Previously, krypt.co was heavily mentioned, but I've only recently learned they were acquired by Akamai and no longer update their previous free products. Those mentions have been removed.

Additionally, 1Password now supports signing Git commits with SSH keys and makes it pretty easy-plus you can easily configure Git Tower to use it for both signing and ssh.

For using a GUI-based GIT tool such as Tower or Github Desktop, follow the steps here for signing your commits with GPG.

	#!/bin/zsh

	# Tiktok speech to text parser
	# by hugeblank, April 2022
	# API endpoint & oneshot reading and playing discovered by @scanlime
	# https://twitter.com/scanlime/status/1512288857596653568

	# First argument - string of text to read
	# Second argument - voice to use
	# Usage examples:

	#!/usr/bin/awk -f

	# This program is a copy of guff, a plot device. https://github.com/silentbicycle/guff
	# My copy here is written in awk instead of C, has no compelling benefit.
	# Public domain. @thingskatedid

	# Run as awk -v x=xyz ... or env variables for stuff?
	# Assumptions: the data is evenly spaced along the x-axis

	# TODO: moving average


	--targetusername = -u (To specify a non-default scratch org)
	--targetdevhubusername = -v (To specify a non-default Dev Hub org)

	--setdefaultdevhubusername = -d
	--setdefaultusername = -s

	--instanceurl = -r
	--setalias = -a

	:root {
	--ease-in-quad: cubic-bezier(0.55, 0.085, 0.68, 0.53);
	--ease-in-cubic: cubic-bezier(0.55, 0.055, 0.675, 0.19);
	--ease-in-quart: cubic-bezier(0.895, 0.03, 0.685, 0.22);
	--ease-in-quint: cubic-bezier(0.755, 0.05, 0.855, 0.06);
	--ease-in-expo: cubic-bezier(0.95, 0.05, 0.795, 0.035);
	--ease-in-circ: cubic-bezier(0.6, 0.04, 0.98, 0.335);
	--ease-out-quad: cubic-bezier(0.25, 0.46, 0.45, 0.94);
	--ease-out-cubic: cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1);
	--ease-out-quart: cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1);