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AssemblyAI - Retool App

I had a great time exploring AssemblyAI and thought it would be cool to create a user interface for it using Retool that lets you easily transcribe audio files. Here's what I came up with in version 0.1. Just upload the file, or if you prefer, record

Playing around with Postman

I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs. I just never got down to using it much. That changed quite a bit in the last week or so. I started playing around with it while

How to deploy a Flask app to Digital Ocean's app platform

I recently went throught the process to put my side project howbigisthebaby.io on Digital Ocean's new app platform, and wanted to document it in case anyone else found it helpful (or atleast me revisiting this later). Part 1: Setup the environment for the Flask app Step 1:

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