Beginners who want to get into the software field often get programming and software engineering mixed up. These are not the same thing. Programming is a part of software engineering. Software engineering on the other hand, encompasses so much more than programming. Software engineering is the process of starting with…

My interview experience with Google in May of 2022 — I interviewed with Google in May of 2022 and did not get an offer. In early May, a friend gave me a referral to apply and I applied for three different positions. A recruiter contacted me and we chatted about what I had been up to recently and what my…

High level views of how NLP is being used and how it can be used — “Alexa, turn on the lights.” “Siri, play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.” “Google, when is Jennifer’s birthday?” The AI revolution is already here. It’s right in our palms, in our houses, and our cars. We’ve been using voice technology for years. What we’ve really seen in the last few years is the…

Based on personal experience running a Python blog — I have been running the educational Python site, PythonAlgos, for over half a year now. During that time, I’ve published over 130 articles on there, and over 100 articles on here. I have many articles that show up on the front page of Google search results when you’re looking for…

A commentary from someone who has been in management and engineering — I’ve been in software engineering on and off for almost 10 years now. I’ve been up and down the ladder from intern to software engineer to fractional CTO and experienced many different team environments. I’ve managed small teams of up to 5 engineers and been part of teams of up…

It’s not as scary as I thought it would be — I’ve been a content creator for about a year now. I mainly write developer content, but I also write some meta stuff around content creation. I’ve also become mildly popular in the Python world through my blog PythonAlgos. In that time, I have created over 200 pieces of content! I…

You’ve just trained a new machine learning model. How do you evaluate it? — Machine learning models can be evaluated in many different ways, with each method giving you different information. The four main machine learning model metrics using a confusion matrix are precision, accuracy, recall, and F-score. In this post, we’re going to look at how to calculate these machine learning metrics using…

It only took like 6 months — Back in December of 2021, I started the publication Plain Simple Software to enhance the lives of people who want to learn, understand, and use software more. After writing my first articles, the first thing I did was reach out to a friend of mine who is also a great…