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, teaching, bootstrap, buddhism, flask, phonegap, apis, girldevelopit, jquery, motherhood, performance, devcontainer, django, zepto, accessibility, vscode, appengine, backbone, fastapi, google, khanacademy, php, github, gmaps, pytest, rag, workflow, apidesign, bicep, diy, gears, gwt, language, musicvideo, social.

• 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
• Entity extraction using OpenAI structured outputs mode
• Integrating vision into RAG applications
• Making an Ollama-compatible RAG app
• 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
• Evaluating a RAG chat app: Approach, SDKs, and Tools
• Using llamafile for local dev for an OpenAI Python web app
• Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Go Keyless
• Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Streaming UI
• Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Concurrency