Here ye Here ye fellow tech folks!
@torcdotdev is jammed packed this week with virtual talks, workshops and social events (free)!
Whether you want to get some wisdom from other's journey, to improving your resume, to relaxing with fellow devs, there's a large variety of events!
Huge thank you to Gridiron Survivor for accepting me into their Product Engineering Apprenticeship Program! I applied since more and more companies are requiring that software devs have significant experience with AI so this is a great way to deepen that experience.
ALT Presentation slide on a cream dotted background titled Help doctor! My AI is hallucinating (again)! with subtitle Why hallucinations happen and what engineers can do about them. Below is the italic quote The most dangerous AI answer isn’t the obviously wrong one. and two taped meme images: left says AI, HALLUCINATION, IS THIS A PIGEON?; right says DANGIT JIM, I’M A DOCTOR NOT AN AI ALIGNMENT ENGINEER.
ALT Infographic titled “Hallucination vs. a mistake” explaining that a hallucination is “a confident, fabricated claim.” It contrasts “MISTAKE: ‘Node 18 is the latest LTS.’ It was true once. Now it’s outdated.” with “HALLUCINATION: ‘Use Array.prototype.superFlatten().’ It never existed,” alongside a comic showing ChatGPT giving a false answer and “DR. SMITH NEVER EXISTED” with “ERROR 404 - Publication not found.”
ALT Presentation slide titled “Real World Consequences” with the subtitle “A fluent answer can have real consequences.” It highlights “Mata v. Avianca” and says lawyers submitted a brief containing invented cases, quotes, and docket numbers generated by ChatGPT, followed by “2023 · sanctioned, fined $5,000,” “Real Court.” and “Fake Citations.”, alongside a meme-style image of a worried child with the caption “I see dead people. judgements which don’t exist.”
ALT Presentation slide titled “So... why does this happen?” explaining that an LLM is not a tiny database with a perfect fact lookup button; it generates likely continuations of text and does not automatically make every generated claim true. The slide includes photos of a carrot-topped cake and a birthday doodle, plus a branching diagram showing how the prompt “On my birthday, I would like to have” can lead to different word choices and the output “Cakes with chocolates.”
You'll get to work with tools like The AI Platform made by Zephyr, GitKraken, a GUI GIT interface, amongst other amazing technologies.”
Our first task is a simpler one, we got to pick one topic and choose to do a presentation on it.
I chose “AI Hallucinations - Why AI can confidently produce incorrect or invented information and how to verify its answers.” I added some screenshots of my slides if you’d want a sneak peak 😉.
Also shout out to @ZephyrCloudIO, @GitKraken and @frontendmentor for sponsoring!
Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds
Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume
Showing off my newly revamped portfolio where its night sky themed (as a nod to the stars from my spellman "magic" wand logo)
Also some fun easter eggs if you click the constellations ;)
Now that my portfolios no longer an embarrassment, time to focus on actual work maybe 😂
Ended up editing my portfolio again since I really, really hated the light blue and white background lol
We've gone fancy ~
There's still some bits I want to edit but wow does it look way better. I feel like the clouds and stars add some whimsy without being too over the top?
ALT Homepage for Spellman’s Consulting with a left sidebar menu (Home, Projects, About, Services, The Process, Skills, Contact, Blog, Torc), a hero section reading “Hi there! I’m Janet. Your future Software Engineer.” with About and Free Consultation buttons, and a circular portrait of a smiling woman; below is a Github section with a contribution graph.
ALT Dark blue portfolio homepage for Spellman’s Consulting with a left sidebar menu showing Home, Projects, About, Services, The Process, Skills, Contact, Blog, and Join Torc (Free Tech Community). The main section says “Hi there! I’m Janet. Software Engineer & Web Developer” with “See My Work” and “Free Consultation” buttons, plus a circular headshot and a top-right Contact button with social media icons.
ALT A portfolio webpage section titled Latest Projects shows three project cards: Be BiteSmartSM, Wipe Right, and Homeward Tails, each with a preview image, brief description, tech stack tags, and links for Code, View, and ReadMe. The Homeward Tails card also includes a Decision Log link.
ALT Centered contact form on a dark navy page with wavy lavender header accents and small star icons. Text reads “Get in Touch,” “Hiring for a role or need a site built? Either way, I’d love to hear from you.” “All fields marked with * are required,” with fields for Name*, Email*, Phone:, Message*, a phone format note “Format: 111-222-3333,” and a “Send” button.
Ever feel like having someone accompany you on your trips?
Ever feel like doing frontlines out of the blue?
I present to you... clear PVC cards to bring along with you!
Your day can't possibly be boring with these cards at the ready 🤲 See you at #msqsg2026 !
#makersquestsg
ALT A hand holding PVC clear card with Emet-Selch from FFXIV printed on top. The backgroud is toilet seat, making it looks like Emet is sitting on the toilet.
ALT A hand holding PVC clear card with Zenos from FFXIV printed on top. The backgroud is toilet seat, making it looks like Zenos is climbing out of the toilet.
ALT A PVC clear card with FFXIV PVP UI printed on top. The backgroud is a sphynx cat, making it looks like the cat is being attacked in PVP.
ALT A PVC clear card with a sad Meteion from FFXIV printed on top. The backgroud is a sulcata tortoise, making it looks like Meteion is pointing at the tortoise in sadness.
I knocked out a few technical interview questions today so now it's time for a break with everyone's fav game!
Where the m$ow is ember?! Good luck with spotting the lil goddess fellow mere mortals!
2nd pic has the answer ~
ALT A sunny backyard planter bed with a tan block retaining wall, black netting along the top, and varied plants including a tall grass clump, shrubs, and a small tree. Behind the red post is a cat tail
ALT A black-and-white cat is partially hidden in the grass and shadows beside a wooden post against a tan block wall. Ornamental grasses and a curved brick border line the garden bed above a concrete sidewalk.
life is interesting, some days you're using kermit as a model to sell a unicorn pet outfit on fb marketplace and wow, does he look stunning in it. Slay 🌈💅
Enlisted ember for only one of them lol
ALT Kermit the frog wearing a unicorn head gear that has a gold horn and rainbow mane
ALT a cat with a black and red vampire cape on its back
had a ton of cheap pet outfits from like 2017 when I wanted to use them to take cute pet pics of shelter animals, but eh if i ever get around to that I can buy new outfits
So turns out I've got issues, github issues that is!
Ended up submitting the flaky language switch issue @ vimeo after hours of trying to debug. Been a while since I had to pull out that many good ol' console.logs!
ALT A web page shows the text “Player ready. Click below to play and run trials.” and a button labeled “Play & run 10 trials (EN → ES → reset)”. Below, a results table reports “0 / 10 trials actually applied the requested audio track,” with 10 rows where `selectAudioTrack()` resolved to `{"language":"es","kind":"translation"}` and the “Applied?” column says “no” for every trial.
ALT A web page shows a paused video close-up of a woman speaking in what looks like a clinic or office, with the subtitle I mean, he would've shown you. Below the player are the texts Player ready. Click below to play and run trials., a Play & run 10 trials (EN → ES → reset) button, and a results table under Playing and running... showing Spanish translation selections marked YES.
In the meantime alas I'll have to reload the entire iframe if someone wants to switch the language via the language toggle (aka for less techy users who don't know how to switch the audio & subtitle language via the video player)
github.com/vimeo/player.js/i…