Category: Learning
A couple years ago, I tinkered with a solution to use a webcam to capture images of receipts, covert the images to raw text, and store in a database. My scrappy solution worked okay but it lacked the accuracy to make it viable for anything real-world. With AWS Rekognition launching since then, I figured I’d…
I wanted to try my hand at using the AWS Polly text-to-speech service. Polly offers several different voices and supports multiple languages, most of which sound pretty good, especially if you use SSML when passing text. SSML is where the character of the speech (rate, tone, pitch, etc) come into play. See here for more detail.…
I’m not an optimization expert nor am I a WP power user but I have been using the platform for over ten years. I have a strong preference for plugins that are lightweight, easy-to-implement and configure, and have a clean removal (plugins which leave artifacts are a huge pet peeve of mine). Here’s a list…
Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a handy AWS product which enables programmatic publication and subscription to topics. They can be as simple as email or SMS or involve more complicated services complicated like Lambda, SQS, HTTP, etc. The write-up below walks through the process end-to-end from installing the AWS PHP SDK to publishing your first message…
I’ve been with multiple webhosts over the years (DreamHost, Host Gator, Site5, 1and1, SiteGround, and I’m probably forgetting a few) and even ran a reseller of my own for a several years. In the past few years, large groups like Endurance International Group have been gobbling up mom-n-pops operations like Site5 and Host Gator and…
