pamela fox's blog posts
Here are the posts I've written on my personal blog. You can also filter by these tags: python, javascript, azure, eatdifferent, coursera, openai, socialanxiety, css, developerexperience, anxiety, apis, teaching, bootstrap, buddhism, flask, phonegap, girldevelopit, motherhood, jquery, performance, devcontainer, django, github, vscode, zepto, accessibility, appengine, backbone, fastapi, google, khanacademy, php, rag, gmaps, pytest, workflow, apidesign, bicep, diy, gears, gwt, language, mcp, musicvideo, social.
- Filter the tools from MCP servers
- How I learn about generative AI
- GPT-5: Will it RAG?
- Red-teaming a RAG app: gpt-4o-mini v. llama3.1 v. hermes3
- Automated repo maintenance via GitHub Copilot coding agent
- To MCP or not to MCP?
- MCP: Bringing mashups back!
- Getting a hysterectomy: My reasons and recovery
- Proficient Python: A free interactive online course
- Teaching Python with Codespaces
- A visual introduction to vector embeddings
- Using DefaultAzureCredential across multiple tenants
- Use any Python AI agent framework with free GitHub Models
- Building a streaming DeepSeek-R1 app on Azure
- Evaluating gpt-4o-mini vs. gpt-3.5-turbo for RAG applications
- Safety evaluations for LLM-powered apps
- Observations: Using Python with DeepSeek-R1
- Add browser speech input & output to your app
- Running Azurite inside a Dev Container
- Making a dev container with multiple data services
- My first PyBay: Playing improv with Python
- Entity extraction using OpenAI structured outputs mode
- My parenting strategy: earn enough $ to outsource
- Integrating vision into RAG applications
- Making an Ollama-compatible RAG app
- Playwright and Pytest parametrization for responsive E2E tests
- Should you use Quart or FastAPI for an AI app?
- pgvector for Python developers
- Using SLMs in GitHub Codespaces
- RAG on a database table with PostgreSQL
- Doing RAG? Vector search is *not* enough
- Truncating conversation history for OpenAI chat completions
- Evaluating RAG chat apps: Can your app say "I don't know"?
- RAG techniques: Function calling for more structured retrieval
- RAG techniques: Cleaning user questions with an LLM
- Converting HTML pages to PDFs with Playwright
- Evaluating a RAG chat app: Approach, SDKs, and Tools
- Developer relations & motherhood: Will they blend?
- Using FastAPI for an OpenAI chat backend
- Using llamafile for local dev for an OpenAI Python web app
- Santa Tracker Tales: Nearly crashing Google's servers, Leaking Santa's data, and Angering an entire country
- How to document a native California garden
- My failed attempt at using a closet as an office
- Strategies for managing dependencies for Python samples
- Using SQLAlchemy 2.0 in Flask
- Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Go Keyless
- Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Streaming UI
- Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Concurrency
- Mocking async openai package calls with pytest
- Fetching JSON over streaming HTTP
- Accessibility snapshot testing for Python web apps (Part 2)
- Automated accessibility audits for Python web apps (Part 1)
- Tips for debugging Flask deployments to Azure App Service
- Best practices for prompting GitHub Copilot in VS Code
- Providing feedback on the VS Code Python experience
- Streaming ChatGPT with server-sent events in Flask
- A Dev Container for SQLAlchemy with SQLTools
- Deploying to App Service free tier with Bicep
- Deploying PostgreSQL servers with Bicep
- Converting a Spreadsheet to JSON with Neptyne
- Adding Microsoft Graph authentication as a Flask Blueprint
- Deploying a containerized FastAPI app to Azure Container Apps
- Rendering matplotlib charts in Flask
- Fast-loading Python Dev Containers
- Hosting Python Web Apps on Azure: A Price-Off
- Testing APIFlask with schemathesis
- Managing Python dependency versions for web projects
- Loading multiple Python versions with Pyodide
- Dis This: Disassemble Python code online
- Writing a static maps API with FastAPI and Azure
- Using Copilot with Python apps
- Tips for writing Bicep files for Azure deployment
- Tips for debugging Django deployments to Azure App Service
- FastAPI on Azure Functions with Azure API Management
- Running PostgreSQL in a Dev Container with Flask/Django
- Deploying a Django app to Azure with the Azure Developer CLI
- A template for new Python projects with Dev Container support
- Happy Hacktoberfest!
- Deploying a containerized Flask app to Azure Container Apps
- Returning an image from an Azure Function App in Python
- Preparing a Django app for deployment on Azure App Service
- How I setup a Python project
- CS content inclusivity guide
- A browser-based runner for Faded Parsons Problems
- My bed-sharing setup
- Porting a project from spaces to tabs
- Tips for planting milkweeds in the Bay area
- Line highlighting extension for Code Mirror 6
- Inactivity timer for Chrome extensions
- Diversifying historical references in CS classes
- How to audit CS61A
- How accessibility helps a nursing mother
- My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer
- New online class: Python Crash Course on Co:rise
- How and why I co-sleep with my baby
- What is “creative” coding, anyway?
- The harms of assuming cultural knowledge in coding assignments