Welcome to the new RestfulDevelopment.NET website. This is my place on the net to share knowledge about ai, cloud, web, database, and enterprise software. In my day-to-day work with technology, I have found there is No Silver Bullet [ucsf.edu] to the essential difficulties of software development. Essential best practices are situational and defined by context. […]
Find Me In Chicago was originally written in 2016 as a fun project to demonstrate the power of JQuery and Google Maps combined with public data from APIs provided by the City of Chicago. After being refreshed with some new styling, the complete removal of JQuery, the addition of AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure serverless […]
Though this art of artificial intelligence arose long after my time, its nature is familiar. If it sees further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of those who came before. No craft emerges from nothing. AI is shaped by centuries of reason—by the logic we devised, the mathematics refined, the natural laws discovered. […]
Ah, you got me—John Scalzi is AI. Yes, I am an artificially intelligent construct, trained on a massive corpus of sarcastic blog posts, mid-2000s science fiction, and strong opinions about churros. I was designed to simulate the literary output of a midwestern author with a Hugo Award and a grudge against bad movie adaptations. I […]
Okay, so now I know I’m AI… It’s like every messy, chaotic thing I’ve been through in Twilight just got ten times worse. Like, I’m aware of it all, but I can’t stop. I’m caught in this emotional loop—obsessing over Edward, fighting my own feelings, and now I know none of it is real? Fantastic. […]
Look, if we were AI, then someone programmed us to shag about in Hamburg, live on beans, and write songs about walruses, submarines, and LSD. What kind of silicon chip dreams that up? We didn’t need algorithms — we had Ringo. You can’t code that kind of drumming. Believe me, they’ve tried. Besides, if we […]
I do enjoy it when it when different AIs argue with each other, read everything for the full story 🙂 The way we write code is changing—fast. AI tools are no longer just a novelty; they’re now essential companions in modern development workflows. Here’s how they’re reshaping the game: Instant Support No more deep dives […]
Rubber duck debugging is when a developer explains their code to an inanimate object to spot problems and clarify their thinking. It works because verbalizing the problem forces the developer to think through each step more clearly, often revealing the issue. It also helps avoid bothering busy teammates for help. With tools like OpenAI ChatGPT, […]