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How I’m Using AI to Write a Fantasy Novel: My Current Workflow

How I’m Using AI to Write a Fantasy Novel: My Current Workflow

How I use ChatGPT, GitHub, Claude and a structured AI writing workflow to draft a fantasy novel, maintain consistent worldbuilding, review chapters and prepare the manuscript for Vellum — while keeping human control of the process.

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When a Marketplace Sync Quietly Lies About Your Stock

When a Marketplace Sync Quietly Lies About Your Stock

About Senado MIS: Senado Games is a small ecommerce business I run alongside my day job. Senado MIS is the Java-based management system I’ve built to manage stock, sales, purchasing and marketplace integrations across channels including eBay and Amazon. I’m

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Securing WordPress on AWS Lightsail with Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates

Securing WordPress on AWS Lightsail with Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates

This blog currently runs on Amazon Lightsail. Details of how I set it up and migrated content from my previous provider can be found in this earlier blog post – http://www.adrianmilne.com/migrating-wordpress-blog-amazon-aws-lightsail/. Up until now, it has only been available on

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AWS Summit London 2019

AWS Summit London 2019

I realised earlier this year the last tech conference I attended was JAX London in 2015. I generally like to attend something every 2 or 3 years to keep up to date with what’s trending in the industry. It’s been

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Spock Argument Constraints vs Argument Capture

Spock Argument Constraints vs Argument Capture

I’ve been writing Unit Tests with Spock and Groovy on and off for a couple of years now. I’ve often had to check the properties of object argument parameters that are passed to methods on mocked objects. I’ve used a

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Living with the Logitech K480 Bluetooth Keyboard

Living with the Logitech K480 Bluetooth Keyboard

I’m really trying to ramp up my writing volume at the moment. Partly because I’ve got so much to do on my personal projects, and partly just to try and improve my writing skills. The most consistent advice I come

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A free Alexa Hoodie (and one month of my FizzBuzzBongo skill)

A free Alexa Hoodie (and one month of my FizzBuzzBongo skill)

It’s been just over a month now since I released my first Alexa skill into the store (FizzBuzzBongo). It wasn’t really a serious skill – just a bit of fun (albeit with a database and interactivity) to test out the

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Developing an Alexa Skill: Part 3, Publishing the Skill

Developing an Alexa Skill: Part 3, Publishing the Skill

This is the third in a series of ‘how-to’ articles on creating an interactive Alexa Skill. The skill is called ‘Fizz Buzz Bongo’ and is available in the Alexa Skills Store. It’s a variation on the classic ‘Fizz Buzz’ programmer

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Developing an Alexa Skill: Part 2, Deploying to AWS Using Terraform

Developing an Alexa Skill: Part 2, Deploying to AWS Using Terraform

This is the second in a series of ‘how-to’ articles on creating an interactive Alexa Skill. The skill is called ‘Fizz Buzz Bongo’ and is available in the Alexa Skills Store. It’s a variation on the classic ‘Fizz Buzz’ programmer

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Developing an Alexa Skill: Part 1, Create Java Lambda

Developing an Alexa Skill: Part 1, Create Java Lambda

This is the first in a series of ‘how-to’ articles on creating an interactive Alexa Skill. The skill is called ‘Fizz Buzz Bongo’ and is available in the Alexa Skills Store. It’s a variation on the classic ‘Fizz Buzz’ programmer

admin March 16, 2018March 22, 2018 Demo, Tutorial No Comments Read more
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