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“AI utilization” is becoming commonplace in the engineering community. In such an era, I’ve been thinking about what kind of engineer we should aspire to be. On one hand, there’s the “Brilliant Shark” type engineer—those with overwhelming technical skills but who neglect teamwork. On the other hand, there are engineers with decent technical skills who excel at AI utilization and serve as team facilitators. Through extensive use of Claude Code, I’ve come to see that the latter has a brighter future ahead. Let me share my thoughts on “the future engineer archetype” based on my experience with AI tools. ...

Introduction Have you ever heard of Markdown? It’s a text language and file format that allows you to express the structure of a document using simple symbols. Engineers and people in technical fields are usually familiar with it, but it’s not widely used outside those circles. However, Markdown is rapidly becoming a practical and powerful tool for everyone. That’s why I decided to jot down my thoughts about it. Markdown and Plain Text Markdown is a type of plain text. ...

Summary 30,000 JPY per month is expensive, but it’s worth it. Especially, having 100 uses of Deep Search per month is amazing. Introduction On February 5, 2024, OpenAI released Deep Search. It seemed useful, but the ChatGPT Plus plan only allows 10 uses per month. Since that limit felt too restrictive, I decided to subscribe to the ChatGPT Pro plan (cutting down on food expenses to afford it). The Value of ChatGPT Pro One major advantage is the relaxed usage limits for models. ...

About MarkItDown On December 14, 2024, Microsoft released something interesting. It’s a software called MarkItDown. It’s a tool that converts various files into the Markdown format. Quoting from the official repository, the formats that can be converted are: - PDF (.pdf) - PowerPoint (.pptx) - Word (.docx) - Excel (.xlsx) - Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR) - Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription) - HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.) - Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.) - ZIP (Iterates over contents and converts each file) As you can see, it handles a wide variety of files. ...

Introduction Many people rely on search engines when conducting research. However, search results can be a mixed bag, ranging from genuinely useful resources to ad-laden, low-quality sites. I’ve shared techniques for finding the gems amidst the clutter in Struggling with “Just Google It” Advice. But how do we filter out the junk from the results? Let me introduce a tool I personally use. About uBlacklist uBlacklist is a browser extension that filters search engine results. ...

I wanted to run a local LLM using Docker to deploy Ollama and Open WebUI. Since my machine has a GPU, I documented the steps to integrate Docker (containers) with the GPU. Conclusion Avoid using Docker Desktop. Switching to Docker Engine resolved the issue. This post skips over the installation of NVIDIA drivers and the NVIDIA Container Toolkit (formerly NVIDIA Container Runtime). Failure Case: Using Docker Desktop Initially, I installed Docker Desktop. ...

Introduction When using the internet, you can’t avoid searching for information. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or in any role, you’ll likely need to look things up. In today’s era, where AI like ChatGPT is becoming ubiquitous, I believe “searching skills” are more important than ever. Let me use an example. Imagine you run into a problem and ask someone for advice. How many of you have been told, “Just Google it”? ...

Software Guide Customizing the Taskbar Open the Settings app. Navigate to Personalization and select Taskbar. Adjust the taskbar items (recommend hiding Search, Copilot, Task View, and Widgets). Select Taskbar behaviors. Set Taskbar alignment to Left. Turn Show taskbar on all displays to ON. Set When using multiple displays, show my taskbar apps on to Taskbar where the window is open. Enable Show seconds in system tray clock. Enabling Clipboard History Press Windows + V. Click Turn on. You can now access up to 25 items copied to the clipboard. ...

I wanted to make GPG-signed commits directly in VSCode, so I tweaked the GPG settings in WSL. When GPG signing is enabled in Git, you might encounter an error like git =gpg failed to sign the data vscode. To resolve this, I set Git for Windows to trigger a GUI for entering the GPG passphrase. Additionally, I configured WSL to call Pinentry, making the process smoother. $ vim ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf # Add the following line: # pinentry-program "/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Gpg4win/bin/pinentry.exe" # Return to the terminal: $ gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye With this configuration, a passphrase input GUI will appear when making commits in VSCode. ...

At my workplace, there are times when I need a VPN, and on Windows and MacOS, FortiClient is my default workplace. But since I am using Linux (Ubuntu) with a twist, I decided to install OpenFortiGUI. The OpenFortiGUI official website recommends APT mirror, so I installed it accordingly. However, since Ubuntu 24.04, the way to add APT mirror has been changed from one line format in sources.list to deb822 format. ...