Archive - Victoria Drake

Optimizing text for ChatGPT: NLP and text pre-processing techniques

Mastering text preprocessing to send more input to ChatGPT.

Sep 19, 2023 •

December 2021

Introducing The Tech Leader Docs

A new resource for software development leaders by Victoria Drake.

Dec 21, 2021 •

October 2021

My paper to-do strategy

Simplify your task management strategy with my favorite hardware: paper.

Oct 25, 2021 •

August 2021

Measuring productivity with GitHub issues

Can a little Pandas help improve your development velocity?

Aug 30, 2021 •

There are better options for a privacy-respecting phone

Meet the new, better Apple. Here's how to choose your phone and set it up.

Aug 12, 2021 •

Building in context

The best laid plans are made better by staying close to context.

Aug 9, 2021 •

July 2021

Leading with a cybersecurity mindset

Systems for considering software development from a security standpoint.

Jul 28, 2021 •

May 2021

On electronic mail

That which you consume forms who you become.

May 25, 2021 •

February 2021

Digital resilience: redundancy for websites and communications

When what seems like half the planet noped out of WhatsApp after its terms of service update, applications like Signal (which I highly recommend) saw an…

Feb 22, 2021 •

Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server

Matrix is an open standard for decentralized real-time communication. The specification is production-ready and bridges to tons of silo products like…

Feb 15, 2021 •

December 2020

How to write good documentation

If you’ve ever half-written a software project before taking a few days off, this is the article you’ll discover you needed when you reopen that IDE. In…

Dec 14, 2020 •

Make your team more productive by literally doing one thing

In the tech teams I lead, “priority” has no plural form. Whether you’re leading a team of people or leading yourself, it’s important to take account of…

Dec 7, 2020 •

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