Dynamic Chatbot Logic
I am working on a chatbot platform built on the idea that a working bot can be defined in a single line of text. It handles everything needed for a full-featured chatbot and can deploy bots on (almos…
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Bots I Have Built
I have been building chatbots for a few years and thought I would document some of them and their evolution over time. TYMS (Track Your Mental State) TYMS v1 - Built with bottle.py, saved to CSV file…
Secure Configuration of Google Tag Manager
If you have to host a Google Tag Manager Container owned or managed by someone else, you need to take precautions. Tag Manager has powerful analytics orchestration capabilities and is a great way to …
JSON conversion as a bottleneck in a Python API
A new acquaintance discussed with me a scaling problem his dev team is trying to solve. In their Django/Python app they have an API reading a table with long rows but otherwise simple structure. The …
Optimizing a Dockerfile to reduce layers and size
While converting the primary application I work on to Docker I went through a series of steps to reduce layers and final image size. Here is the process and results: Get the Dockerfile working Use Do…
Docker disk space usage
Something to watch out for: Docker may be using lots of your computer's disk space. All data is written to a grow-only file. On my mac it was at 27 GB from pretty light Docker experimentation. There …