chatgpt on James Alvarez

So it turns out PHP rules the web?

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100

PHP is often the butt of jokes online, but I've always thought that quite unfair. Turns out, that I am certainly not the only one, as outlined in this article 'The Internet of PHP' where I learn that PHP is powering 77.2% of the top 10 million website backends, with the next contender being ASP.NET at a measly 6.9%. A large amount of this is Wordpress (obviously), but either way, it's a huge amount of the web and to me the summary of this article captures why:

The way things are going...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I have now been using Chat-GPT, and Github's Copilot for coding for 3 months, and I just have to say, some days I am just breezing through tasks that would otherwise take me ages. For me, it's perfect as it excels at the tasks I actually struggle with, e.g. boring boilerplate, repetitive, data entry type things, leaving me to feel more mental space to think about the big picture as well as staying more organised.

Chat-GPT is not coming for my job just yet!

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The dust has settled a bit after the wide release of Chat-GPT and my excitement has tempered somewhat. It is capable of some very cool stuff, but its main limitation is accuracy. There are a lot of mistakes, and it asserts itself so confidently you have to be very careful when using it. Despite this I have been using it daily, finding it especially useful for SQL and React and as a general search engine for programming language questions. It is very good with error messages for instance, and if stackoverflow.com doesn’t instantly give me the answer, often Chat-GPT will. It is also surprisingly good at converting data. I turned a hastily written design brief into a well formatted JSON structure, a task that would have otherwise been 15mins of cutting and pasting.

Using Chat-GPT to do my job

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I am so excited! Today after reading articles about Chat GPT I decided to see if I could start using it to help me do my job. Here is my first bit of work:

How can I prevent a user from signing up with a particular email address, without retaining the email address itself?

If you want to prevent a user from signing up with a particular email address, but do not want to retain the email address itself, one possible solution is to create a hash of the email address and store the hash instead of the email address itself.