How I built the writing app I needed in 2 hours for free – with Ollama and VS Code

I'm not a developer, but I was able to use locally-installed AI to create a writing app suited to my needs. Here's how.
The Conversation

AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code

What do you think there are more of: professional computer programmers or computer users who do a little programming? It’s the second group. There are millions of so-called end-user programmers.

Consulting with Gemini: Writing Python code to extract broken links from a web link collection and categorize active links

The mission is to extract currently broken links from a collection of web article links and categorize the active links.I ...
techtarget

Python code formatting: Tools you need and why it matters

Publishing companies establish formats for all the writing they produce. Editors and writers have to be familiar with the company's style sheet and conform to the rules established in that manual.

If AI can write code, do we really not need to learn Python?

I often hear people say lately, "I don't need to learn Python because I can just ask AI to write the code for me.""I don't ...
How-To Geek

Writing bad code made me twice as productive—but it came with a catch

"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...
InfoWorld

9 fine libraries for profiling Python code

From simple timers and benchmarking modules to sophisticated stats-based frameworks, look to these tools for insight into the performance of your Python program. Every programming language has two ...