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PHP and LLMs Marketing Assistant Chapter Released

This really is an automations chapter and a lot to learn about how to automate so many tasks.

https://bit.ly/php_llms

All the code is there too to run a Laravel Assistant for Marketing and anything else.

Next chapter is runing Standard Checking type Assistant some of the key use cases are

Ensure team coding standards are always in check! 💻

Dive into document pages and easily find related content. 🗂️

Smoothly compare RFPs to your solution database for quicker replies. 🔍

More coming soon with the app 100% working to do this!

You can listen to the episode here https://readorlisten.com/episodes/marketing-assistant-and-other-automations

I Helped Laravel News Automate Link Checking

One call later Eric Barnes saved hours of boring work! Now he just hits the api with the link, it scrapes the web and verifies the site is about technology and not spam!

https://x.com/ericlbarnes/status/1844376408866574746

Wnat to save time at your company reach out to me at https://dailyai.studio/

Speaking of DailyAi.Studio

I will talk about that more later but the image is from https://ideogram.ai/t/explore

Great way to make images with text!

N8N Integrations and Automation Magic

Wow this one continues to blow me away https://n8n.io/
Integrate any service! Seriouly amazing and powerful that plus https://bolt.new and a lot of non-coders are empowered to buidl amazing things

Alright now for the rest of the news that caught my attention!

Embeddings in Depth - Part of the Ollama Course

Date: N/A
Watch Here: Embeddings in Depth - YouTube
Summary:
Learn about embeddings in this insightful video, part of the Ollama course, where you'll dive deep into how embeddings work and their practical applications.

Build Advanced Voice AI Tools With Vapi and N8N

Date: November 1, 2023
Watch Here: Build Advanced Voice AI Tools - YouTube
Summary:
This tutorial walks you through building powerful voice AI tools using Vapi and N8N. It covers how to integrate voice services with custom automation workflows to create advanced AI solutions.

Gmail Integrations | Workflow Automation with N8N

Date: N/A
Learn More: Gmail Integrations - N8N
Summary:
Explore the integration of Gmail with N8N to streamline email workflows. This resource outlines various automations that can make managing your inbox and business communications much more efficient.

GroqCasters: AI-Powered Podcast Script and Audio Generation

Date: October 14, 2024
Learn More: GroqCasters - GitHub
Summary:
GroqCasters is an open-source Python application that uses AI to generate podcasts, from script writing to audio production. Discover how to create your own AI-powered podcasts effortlessly with this tool.

Parsing HTML Content from Scraped News Article

Date: May 16, 2023
Learn More: Example Article
Summary:
A deep dive into structuring and formatting scraped HTML content into usable data. This example shows how scraped news articles can be organized efficiently for further analysis or display.

Feel free to modify or adjust the format according to your specific newsletter layout or audience! Let me know if you'd like further customization.

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Here are many of the links from this episode

Another Coding Assistant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkR9Sj_dOc
Plus a good Youtuber to watch imo

Laravel News Interview with Me about LLMs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRG_eZJ0CnQ
One thing that came after the interview was a conversation with Eric and we found more then one way to help automate some of his more tedious daily tasks.
For example he gets numerous URLs sent to him daily that he has to verify are not spam. With just a little LLM prompting we can do the following.

• Get the page from the url
• See if the page is a valid technology article related to Laravel, PHP etc
• If it is then mark the link as approved
• if not mark the link as spam!
  Of course it will take some prompt tweaking to get it right but in time as trust is built up he will no longer have to do this task.

Open-Source LLM with Vision Llama3.2!

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-3-2-connect-2024-vision-edge-mobile-devices/

The Best RAG Technique Yet? Anthropic’s Contextual Retrieval Explained!

This has shown up in a few areas and it is starting to take off. Augmenting your RAG system with chunk context!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmiBae2goJM

GraphRAG: The Marriage of Knowledge Graphs and RAG: Emil EifremUnlock the connections in your data with a well known pattern of Graph Databases and then using RAG to let the LLM help you query that data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knDDGYHnnSI

NoteBookLM makes a Podcast!

This is an amazing tool and everyone who wants to see how LLMs can really help them do things like "study a collection of documents", "create FAQs" from a collection of documents, "

And even make a podcast! You can see here I release a few chapters and some PHP LLM news (coming soon)
https://readorlisten.com/episodes/why-llms-chapter-2-of-php-and-llms-the-book

OpenSource AiPodcast Generator

https://github.com/jgravelle/GroqCasters?tab=readme-ov-file

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News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app) [CGR]

https://github.com/alnutile/cli_skel
great command line starter library for PHP with a focus on testing, CI and code quality

NK:

How Can We Optimize AI for the Greatest Good, Instead of Profit?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608049/how-can-we-optimize-ai-for-the-greatest-good-instead-of-profit

Al:

PHPArchitect - June 2017
Protocol Buffers
by Christopher Mancini
https://github.com/christophermancini/protobuf-php-performance

NK:

Laravel’s Dependency Injection Container in Depth
https://davejamesmiller.com/2017/06/15/laravel-illuminate-container-in-depth

Deep Dive

Tech Radar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Theme, microservice and machine learning

Techniques

• Decoupling secret management from source code

they did mention HashiCorp recently

• Legacy in a box

I am always impressed when I have that experience on a site
and realize how much it makes sense for most sites

• Progressive Web Applications

• Prototyping with InVision and Sketch

even as a non designer this stuff can be important to get an idea across

• Conversationally aware API

context aware API
I was thinking about this the other day in Slack for getting a stack
-- api around this

• Platform engineering product teams.

• but not a devops team

• Social code analysis

enriches our understanding of the code quality by overlaying a developer's behavior with the structural analysis of the code
We get this out of PHP http://www.phpmetrics.org/
and the social side that is interesting though

• CI Theater

Sadly, many developers simply set up a CI server and falsely assume they are "doing CI" when in reality they miss out on all the benefits. Common failure modes include: running CI against a shared mainline but with infrequent commits, so integration isn't really continuous; running a build with poor test coverage; allowing the build to stay red for long periods; or running CI against feature branches which results in continuous isolation. The ensuing "CI theatre" might make people feel good, but would fail any credible CI certification test.

• Enterprise-wide integration test environments

contract testing
decoupling deployment from release
focus on mean time to recovery
testing in production.

• spec-based codegen

not making code from these tools "Swagger/RAML" till the robots take over

Tools

• Airflow [read more]

is a tool to programmatically create, schedule and monitor data pipeline

• Cake and Fake

more new and good tools coming out of MS but this time for .NET

• Serverless Framework

man do I wish I had more time https://serverless.com/

• Amazon Rekognition

• Claudia

Claudia makes it easy to deploy Node.js projects to AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It automates all the error-prone deployment and configuration tasks, and sets everything up the way JavaScript developers expect out of the box

• InSpec

looks really interesting long term info about servers

• Molecule

Ansilbe role testing!!!!

• Spaemacs

could be interesting

• SpaCy

NLP Processor

• Spinnaker

Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

• Testinfra

too much manual qa right now for me
Testinfra aims to be a Serverspec equivalent in Python and is written as a plugin to the Pytest test engine.

• Yarn

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News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app) Copied – Copy and Paste Everywhere by Kevin Chang

http://copiedapp.com/

Make sure to enable the keyboard

NK: Intro Video to Pickle - a BDD layer on top of Dusk and PHPUnit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA-6hnhljI&feature=youtu.be

https://github.com/alnutile/pickle

Al: Github moving to GraphQL

https://developer.github.com/v4/

NK: IBM tells thousands of remote employees to come back to office or find new jobs

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/ibm-to-remote-workers-come-back-to-the-mothership-or-else/

Deep Dive

Do not fear the Queue

Queue usage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_queue

The many levels it can benefit your workflow and how you solve problems

Use Cases

Parallel tasks

Connect two different languages with json

Split up services offload work - Microservice

Allows you to work locally on a part of your App that later you can move off to a microservice or worker

Prevent database sharing

Sending Mail

Importing Files

Database buffer

Long running jobs

How to Implement

Locally using Sync Driver

Laracast

https://laracasts.com/search?q=Queue

Beanstalk

SQS

Iron

Forge

FortRabbit with CloudAMQP https://help.fortrabbit.com/cloudamqp

Homestead

AWS SQS

S3 for large payloads

How to deploy

Laravel Daemon pretty simple

Database

--simple start

--local jobs vs remote

Gotchas

Retries

SNS Format

You gotta restart the queue

Interesting how Laravel does it with timestamp

Have wasted a day on this in the past

Logs can will up if queue is erroring out

Failed jobs

Queue has limit 256 k limit

Visibility timeout

Links

Beanstalk

https://laracasts.com/lessons/beanstalkd-queues-with-laravel

etc

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/queues#supervisor-configuration
link to sns

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News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app)

Moom

https://manytricks.com/moom/

NK: Leaflet - an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps

http://leafletjs.com/

Al:

https://martinfowler.com//bliki/PurposeOfEstimation.html

Just a reminder that quotes are not to lock you in but to help decide if the work is even worth taking on

NK: Design Patterns - A collection of design patterns in PHP translated from the book “Head First Design Patterns”.

https://github.com/PavelLoparev/design-patterns

Deep Dive

Testing When Why and How

Kent Beck : “I get paid for code that works, not for tests”

What kinds of tests are there?

• Units / Units
• Integration / Inside
• Acceptance / Outside
• Contract Tests

How important is it that tests align with the business language and domain context?

Do tests ever get in the way of writing code?

http://stakeholderwhisperer.com/posts/2014/10/introducing-modelling-by-example

Being proud of 100% test coverage is like being proud of reading every word in the newspaper. Some are more important than others. - Kent Beck

What if it is a POC and should it have tests?

Helping to think through the idea

Testing later never works

How to get started as a new to testing developer

Contract Test Notes

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UnitTest - Al

Adam Watham link to Martin Fowler

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

Vue.js Comparison with Other Frameworks - Nathan

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html

PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - Al

Found in PHPArch

https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan

Shipping Docker - Nathan

https://shippingdocker.com/

Tool(s)

Alfred Plugin to set a Do not Disturb Time

https://github.com/mlantz/DND-Alfred-Workflow

Deep Dive

The 4th of 4 as we cover ThoughtWork's Technology Radar - Languages and Frameworks

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks

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Al (tool/app)

TextExpander/Auto Text

https://smilesoftware.com/textexpander

http://lifehacker.com/5843903/the-best-text-expansion-app-for-mac

Even Alfred Plugin

Point is be more efficient including clipboard history into string etc and syncing

NK:

Laravel Dusk Browser Testing

https://www.sitepoint.com/laravel-dusk-intuitive-and-easy-browser-testing-for-all/

Al:

The five stages of BDD (and Agile) Adoption

http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/

"define more objective metrics, preferably independent of the process you are following"

ReadOrListen version here http://www.readorlisten.com/15

NK:

Single Action Controllers in Laravel

https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/single-action-controllers-in-laravel

Deep Dive

TechRadar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

https://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-nov-2016-en.pdf

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News & Other Happenings

Al
“Abstracting HTTP Clients in PHP
By David Buchmann”
Excerpt From: php[architect]. “php[architect] - December 2016.” iBooks.
Yes I am still in December!

NK:
Use your eyes and Deep Learning to command your computer
https://hackernoon.com/talk-to-you-computer-with-you-eyes-and-deep-learning-a-i-odyssey-part-2-7d3405ab8be1#.qujsg472u

Al
AWS re:Invent 2016: Life Without SSH: Immutable Infrastructure in Production (SAC318)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEuN5LkXfZk

NK: When Trump Tweets, This Bot Makes Money
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/513469456/when-trump-tweets-this-bot-makes-money

Deep Dive

Discussion pattern
Name the Section eg Adopt
Name the item eg Pipeline as Code
Quick summary if needed
Round robin x minutes each

TechRadar
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/tools

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
https://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-nov-2016-en.pdf

Tools (Section 2 of 4)

Adopt

babel
consul
grafana
packer

Trail
apache kafka
espresso
fastlane
galen
hashicorp
JSONassert
Let's Encrypt
Load Impact
OWASP Dependency Check
Pa11y
ServerSpec
Talisman
Terroform
tmate
Webpack
ziplin

Asses
androad x86
axios
bottled water
clojurel.spec
FBSnatshotTestcase
Grasp
LambdaCD
Pinpoint
Pitest
Repsheet
Scikit-learn

HOLD
Jenkins as a deployment pipeline

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News & Other Happenings

Al - PHPArch December 2016

Behat - Beyond Browser Testing
https://www.phparch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Behat-Beyond_Browser_Automation-phparchitect-December2016.pdf
Konstantin (Con-Stan-Teen) Kudryashov

NK - Laravel Dusk is Coming

https://laravel-news.com/laravel-dusk-is-coming

Al - Shipping Docker all the videos

https://shippingdocker.com/dockerized-app/

Chris Fadao

NK - The Only Skill You Should Be Concerned With

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141113191054-103457178-the-only-skill-you-should-be-concerned-with

Deep Dive

Tech Radar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

We begin to talk about 1 of the 4 topics, Techniques, in these radar releases. Take some time to learn about these thought-provoking snippets of what is out there for us to consider in our day to day work flow and maybe what not to consider.

Techniques, Tools, Platforms, Languages/Frameworks

Link to PDF - though the website data has more details

We will cover Techniques (Section 1 of 4)

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News & Other Happenings

Machine Learning is Fun

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec3c471#.wlk5uwkvd

Three Horizons of Innovation

https://steveblank.com/2015/06/26/lean-innovation-management-making-corporate-innovation-work/

Generate Migrations from Existing Database

https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator

ServerLess

http://docs.serverless.com/v0.5.0/docs
http://serverlessconf.io/

Laravel 5.3

https://laravel-news.com/2016/06/look-whats-coming-laravel-5-3
and
https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-deep-dive-into-laravel-5-3-features

Latest Readings

Videos
Jez Humble and David

Nathan
“Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804139296

Deep Dive

Slowing down to Speed Up

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News & Other Happenings

PHPArch May 2016 Mastering Oauth2 Ben Ramsey

Vue.js 2.0

https://medium.com/the-vue-point/announcing-vue-js-2-0-8af1bde7ab9#.87222rvto

Event Sourcing - Martin Fowler

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

PHP 7.1 Updates

https://dotdev.co/upcoming-changes-in-php-7-1-76ebea53b820#.ttl517y8f

Microsoft Cognitive Services API

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/

Laravel API Document Generator

https://github.com/mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator

Latest Readings

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Deep Dive

Feature Flags
Library
https://github.com/alfred-nutile-inc/laravel-feature-flag

Article
https://alfrednutile.info/posts/175

Etsy and others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-ccCTmMKY

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