Overview One of the key technical problems Jake and I needed to solve when building aiMessages was support for conversational memory. Conversational memory is how a chatbot (like aiMessages) can r...

In this blog post, I’m going to cover another John Crickett coding challenge that I just completed - building my own Dropbox Clone. Dropbox is a cloud-based file hosting service that allows you to ...

I love Python. And who doesn’t? It’s pervasive for a reason. Sure, it’s a dynamically typed interpreted language that pushes type errors that other languages would catch at compile-time to run-time...

I think compilers are pretty cool. So cool in fact, that when I separate from the military next year, I’m really hoping to become a compiler engineer. And if not that, at least a software engineer ...

This is a continuation of my previous post where I discussed my implementation of a JSON parser in Python. In this post, I’ll discuss my implementation of a JSON parser in OCaml using ocamllex and ...

Overview In this blog post, I’m going to cover another John Crickett coding challenge that I completed recently - building a JSON parser. In this post, I’ll discuss my implementation in Python. In...

If you’ve made it this far - thanks for reading! I had a blast building aiMessages with Jake, and it was fun to recap the journey here, along with things I learned along the way. As John Crickett ...

Overview Firebase is Google’s web and mobile app development platform, and it was absolutely essential in supporting us to deploy the aiMessages iOS app as quickly as we did. It includes dozens of...

Overview As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, the goal of the aiMessages iOS app that I built with Jake Taylor was twofold: Bring the ChatGPT “Large Language Model” (LLM) experience to iMessage ...

Overview As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, the goal of the aiMessages iOS app that I built with Jake Taylor was twofold: Bring the ChatGPT “Large Language Model” (LLM) experience to iMessage ...