Viewing profile — stephenheron

https://ets-connect.co.uk/ < Slightly more information here.

I've had good success in using this: https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-vector if you want something a bit more "off the shelf" if you are using SQLite.

We bought Tailwind UI and it was very good and I learned a lot of nice tricks from it. Real shame, and I fear it is just the start of the impacts of AI on our industry.

Hi, My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. M…

Quite disappointing their speech to text models are not open source. Whisper was really good and it was great it was open to play around with. I guess this continues OpenAI's appro…

One thing to checkout is perhaps some plugin/module you have might be adding this permission without you knowing about it. Trying using the 'Merged Manifest' in Android Studio ( ht…

I have been thinking about LLMs just like everyone else, I guess! The prevailing sentiment seems to be they are going to change the world, from jobs to politics and everything in b…

Hi HN, I am a bit of a loss so I am coming to Hacker News in the hopes someone has seen anything like this. Approximately 6 hours ago we started getting a very strange error back f…

I am glad people are talking about this. I have been feeling like this for the past couple of weeks. It's a difficult thing as I really enjoy coding but it feels like that part of …

I have never applied at Google so I don't know what they are looking for exactly, however I read "Linux Kernel Development" by Robert Love a few years ago and I really enjoyed it. …

I would encourage people to read the NCSC blog post on this as it goes into technical detail on why the decision was made. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/a-different-future-for-…

A fair few apps are crashing for me. I wonder if it is a similar problem to the Facebook SDK issues a few months ago.

I quite like the Autosport forums: https://forums.autosport.com/forum/2-racing-comments/ Or if you are more into the technical side of things: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/

Some quite interesting stuff around how they might be getting around the background iOS restrictions[1] can be found in the Android source. Looking at the Apple documentation on ba…

I wonder if they could reduce the power to the Bluetooth chipset to artificially reduce the range? Might be possible with iOS devices as it's pretty easy to test each of them. Hard…

Good for them but at the same time it is a shame for non Apple Users. We use their embed widget quite heavily. Anyone know of any equivalents? I had a quick Google but can't find a…

We picked React Native and while it's not without its problems in general we quite like it. The community around it is pretty good and being able to use a wide range of JS/React pa…

Hi, I am developer based in Edinburgh. I would recommend popping along to a few meetups. There is something on nearly every night of the week! https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/area/6…

I like the idea of Microservices, however I have yet to have a project of the size where I felt the benefits of them outweighed the drawbacks. However I am going to meetups and con…