• Apple,  Machine Learning,  Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence,  Programming,  Swift

    New App TestFairy Writes Unit Tests With AI

    I just posted a new app to GitHub called TestFairy. It’s at https://github.com/krypted/TestFairy. It automatically generates unit tests for either a file or a highlighted piece of swift code. It does this using the OpenAI API, so leverages a LLM to write test code. It’s pretty straight forward. Simply highlight the code and in the Editor Menu, click TestFairy, then Generate Tests. I had hoped to post it for free to the App Store, but I didn’t want to distribute my OpenAI API key, or write an intermediary microservice that housed my key that an app uses. The use of an API key is considered an end-around to the In-App…

  • Dungeons and Dragons,  Gaming

    STL to print a Lynx

    Posted a lynx .stl and Zbrush file up to Thingiverse (see below) at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5418854 for anyone interested. Coloring is a little different and the tail is longer if anyone needs a bobcat. Modeled a tad bit after my cat Fredo, who’s also got some chubby cat thighs. If you imagine the trouble a lynx would get into living in a house, that’s pretty much him. Although he fetches as well as the dog does and we’ve trained him to sit maybe 75% of the time. So he’s not all bad. Much blood was had before he learned to be careful with his claws (he’s almost two and that wasn’t really…

  • Unix

    SCALE 8

    The 8th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is being held at the Westin by LAX in Los Angeles this weekend. It starts today (so I should have posted this sooner) and sports sessions on open source topics ranging from Zenoss to Sugar to Fedora. For more on the schedule check out the conference schedule at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/conference-schedule-feb-19-2010. This is one of those conferences that I’ve had to miss the last couple of years. But prior to that I was at the first few. The topics were mostly technical in nature, other than me the speakers/conference faculty were all top notch and the organization of the show is impressive. Given all…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    ASR Setup Tool Open Sourced

    Originally Posted to the 318 TechJournal 318 has decided to open source our ASR Setup Tool, which can now be found at http://asrsetup.sourceforge.net. The ASR Setup Tool is built as a wrapper for the asr command line suite from Apple. The description from SourceForge: Developed by 318 Inc., ASR Setup Tool is an application for setting up Apple Software Restore (“ASR”). In the context of the ASR Setup Tool, ASR is used for setting up a multicast stream that can then be leveraged for imaging Mac OS X computers. We hope you enjoy!

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Open Source Voting Systems & the Mac

    To date, I don’t choose to publish my own political views. But no matter whether you are liberal, conservative or one of the various mixtures of the two, you will agree that making sure that every vote counts is integral to a successful democracy. And making sure that every vote counts in many ways starts with counting the votes, a job we have entrusted to a select number of voting system manufacturers. Computerized voting systems have not traditionally lived up to how well other information technology innovations have been able to impact traditionally non-computerized environments. The Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002 was supposed to help propel the initiative…

  • Business

    MinneDemo Again

    Well, yet again I’m out of town for MinneDemo, in Uptown Minneapolis. It will be this Thursday at 7pm. Location: Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408 Map: http://tinyurl.com/dfyzdj To quote minnedemo.org, the presentations will include the following: ShortJournal — an open source developer journal with a REST API (Zach Johnson) Skimmer — a lifestreaming app created by Fallon and Sierra Bravo that brings together your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube streams (Chris Wiggins of Fallon and Chris Black of Sierra Bravo) Zeplay — a kick-ass multi-channel HD instant replay video server for live sports events (John Reilly) tinyEscrow — Source code escrow for programmers, not for lawyers.…

  • Business

    Open Source and Development

    I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Developers of code have always been fairly open with their tips and tricks. New advancements in the websphere come fast and many of them come from the open source community. Led by people like Linus Torvalds, the original author of Linux, the open source ommunity has rewritten many of the most popular proprietary applications on the market and made them freely available to the world, asking only that if they don’t sell the code you don’t turn around and sell the code as well. This was the foundation for the web. Apache, the most popular web server in use, is a product of the…