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  • Building an Automated Coinbase Crytpo Trading Bot

    January 27, 2025
    Analytics, AWS, Learning

    My Problem While there’s a slew of automated trading solutions for both stocks and crypto, I wanted to try building my own as a learning exercise and to give myself more control. A few of the solutions boast some form of ML-driven logic but most use classic standards (RSI, MACD, etc). This is fine but […]

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  • Voice AI assistant using javascript, PHP, and Chat GPT

    April 19, 2024
    AI, AWS, Home Automation, Learning

    My disappointment with my Amazon Echo/Alexa device doubled every time I tried to use it and, after some recent exploration with live video streaming, I wanted to pair my desire for a quirky voice assistant with my desire to learn more about audio stream handling in javascript. The result is a cheesy AI voice assistant […]

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  • Generating and minting an NFT using OpenAI’s DALL·E API and OpenSea

    February 17, 2023
    Learning

    I wanted to try my hand at using OpenAI’s DALL·E API to generate an image and then mint that image as an NFT as a learning experience. The DALL E model API is still in beta which becomes obvious pretty quickly after playing with it for a few minutes. I look forward to seeing this […]

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  • Displaying my NFTs on ETH and Polygon chains using Moralis API and PHP

    October 13, 2022
    Analytics, Learning

    After tinkering with automating crypto buys with the Coinbase API, I wanted to bring in my NFTs as part of my aggregate crypto portfolio (even though my NFTs are more personal interest than investment). I opted to explore Moralis as I’d never worked with their platform before and it seemed to have a good community […]

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  • Automating Crypto Buys with the Coinbase API and PHP

    March 27, 2022
    Learning

    As part of a separate effort to automate buying and selling crypto for myself, I splintered off and decided to do a quick, fun project. I created a “Virtual Swear Jar” which is a simple progressive web app on my phone. With a single tap on the app icon, it opens and buys $10 worth […]

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  • Comparing AWS Textract and AWS Rekognition to extract text from images using PHP

    May 31, 2019
    AWS, OCR Project

    A few months ago I tried using AWS Rekognition to detect text in images. The results were okay for casual use cases but overall the quality was pretty poor (primarily because Rekognition isn’t intended to be used as an OCR product). A few days ago (May 29), AWS announced the general availability of Textract, an […]

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  • Reducing Amazon Connect Telephony Costs by 46% while Improving Caller Experience

    January 14, 2019
    AWS, Learning

    The “Call Me” concept isn’t new but it’s low-hanging fruit that many don’t take advantage of. Using Amazon Connect, we’ll create a simple UI to improve the caller experience while saving 46% on our telephony costs (assuming we’re making US-destined calls with a US East/West instance) by diverting inbound toll-free calls to outbound DID calls. […]

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  • Home Automation Dashboard – Version 3

    January 12, 2019
    Dashboard, Home Automation, Learning

    Over the past two years, I’ve had a few iterations on my home dashboard project. All of the integrations for a “smart home” have been rather dumb in the sense that they’re just handling static transactions or act only as a new channel for taking actions. I wanted to change this and start bringing actual […]

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  • Lambda Data Dips within Amazon Connect Contact Flows

    January 10, 2019
    AWS, Learning

    I’ve read many different guides on this but none seemed to provide end-to-end guidance or were cluttered with other noise unrelated to Lambda or Connect. The power of Lambda function inclusion in the contact flow is immense – perform security functions, lookup/validate/store data, lookup customer data for CRM integration, etc. While learning this, I created […]

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  • Placing Outbound Calls Using Amazon Connect API & PHP

    November 21, 2018
    AWS, Learning

    Amazon Connect is the AWS answer to costly contact center telephony platforms. There’s no upfront costs and overall usage is EXTREMELY cheap when compared to legacy telephony platforms – you essentially just pay per minute. I wanted to play with this a bit so I setup an instance and created a simple script to place […]

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