WCJ Expeditions

Hello! I'm Chad, a software engineering manager based in Nashville, TN USA

Follow along with my blog of coding projects and the occassional travel adventure. Check my most recent project and my blog posts on develooping it in the AI Playground series below.

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Getting Started

June 20, 2023

I need to choose a development environment to get started coding

Great Gatsby!

June 24, 2023

I am choosing GatsbyJS for my blog site. Here is how that went.

CSS and Graphics

July 8, 2023

A quick journal about my thoughts learning web styling.

Headless CMS Integration

July 13, 2023

Let's try setting up an external CMS for content to load into my blog website.

Expedition to Seoul

July 14, 2023

Check out my father daughter expedition to Seoul

Speed up with Generative AI

July 15, 2023

Github Copilot and ChatGPT are my new friends to get work done faster

#1 Design Stage

August 3, 2023

Starting a new project to playaround with OpenAI integration

#2 Website Setup

August 4, 2023

My first dev task was to setup a basic web front-end

#3: Learn OpenAI essentials

August 10, 2023

This task is a spike to learn and experiment with how to write code that calls the OpenAI API

#4 Server-side API setup

August 12, 2023

Now this task is to code up a production worthy server-side api to call OpenAI for the Left-Right Game

#5 User Auth & Usage Limits

August 16, 2023

My final task was to implement user authentication and site usage limits to prevent bots or humans from spamming costly openai api calls