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Reverse Engineering with ChatGPT: An Example

I’m porting Jonas Wagner‘s excellent smartcrop.js, which analyzes an image to recommend a good crop, from JavaScript to Java.

An example crop with diagnostic info, based on N. Feans

When porting code, I always try to understand it along the way so that if (when) there are bugs, I’ll have an idea of where the bug might be. I used ChatGPT 4 to untangle a particularly terse bit of code, and was — frankly — shocked at how well it did.

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A Developer Workflow for Modern AWS Serverless Applications

Modern serverless applications on AWS are complex with a lot of moving parts. Mapping a developer workflow onto those applications can be difficult. This article discusses the developer workflow I have developed for complex serverless applications at aleph0, with example CloudFormation template and GitHub Action snippetes to illustrate the concepts.

An Example Serverless Architecture
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