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Panz

Software engineer and ex-chef based in the Greater Seattle area with a passion for building — whether that's games in Godot, side projects in TypeScript, or the occasional essay. When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm out running.

Panz

Latest Writings

From the Blog

September 25, 2023
Langchain and Beyond

So, I'm pretty big into the AI hype and enjoy learning new things, so I thought I'd give an update on what I've been working on and some things that I'm interested in....

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July 25, 2023
Ground Up

In the waning weeks of June 2023, a simple yet compelling idea took root: breathing new life into my portfolio. The aging Hugo template-generated site that had served me well needed a contemporary touch—a reflection of who I've become. With an added twist this time—a blog. Since I'm adding the blog I thought I'd talk about how it all went down—the ups, the downs, and the...

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July 18, 2023
Embracing Change

I had an abrupt introduction into AI as many had in December 2022 with the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT to the general public. We had been using OpenAI's Whisper for a transcript automation process that we did in house to process client's video's audio files into close captioning files (also just referred to as srt file from their mime type) which we would then use to process transcripts for the clients content...

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June 14, 2022
Pathfinder API

This wasn't always about hiking but has over time morphed into the project over time. I originally wanted to learn how to make a simple image upload so a user could upload an image, it would be stored in some database, then displayed on the client side. Pretty simple yet I had not worked with anything of this nature since I had started my career so I started to plan it out...

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On the Trails

136.9

miles this year

33

runs this year

22h 36m

moving time