I got home about a month ago from a conference tour through Romania, Belgium, and the Netherlands. I gave a talk about LLMs in all three places, and then one more time once I got home to Chicago. M…| Chelsea Troy
Sunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downs…| Chelsea Troy
By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon! It’s long, so there are three parts to the reading, but I made the first part free to listen. I joined Twitter in college,…| Chelsea Troy
In August of 2022, Heroku announced that they would discontinue free plans. This would end an era for Heroku as I knew it: the go-to web hosting platform for getting your first app into production.…| Chelsea Troy
An icy wind whipped through the Chicago loop. I hid behind buildings and skittered across streets, hoping to make it home before ice overtook the edges of my lips, or the three fingers that peeked …| Chelsea Troy
One time, a literal millionaire purchased a coffee for me while he was pitching me to come work for him as an engineer. I splurged and asked for a vanilla latte (about $6). After we spoke about the…| Chelsea Troy