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Generative AI images with Fooocus

What is Fooocus Today we will look at Fooocus. Fooocus is a image generating software. The creator calls Fooocus a rethinking of the popular and powerful Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Fooocus is free, open source and easy to use. I learned about Fooocus after watching Fireship’s youtube video. I had heard about Midjourey and ofcourse DALL-E, but having such a powerful and easy too use tool for generating images completely free was to tempting to not try....

December 10, 2023 · 3 min · André R. Sortland
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Azure Automation

Azure Automation overview Azure Automation is a service in Azure that allows you to run scripts and configure automation tasks that can run on a set schedule set up by you. It is a fantastic tool to remove repetitive and boring tasks and a step forward in automating your organisations workflows. You can use both PowerShell and Python giving you flexibility in how you want to develop the service. In this tutorial we will create a automation account, an app registration for recognizing authentication and create a runbook with the code listing all users in our tenant....

November 11, 2023 · 5 min · André R. Sortland
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Get started with Python

Is it worth learning to code in 2023? You’ve likely heard the doomsday prophecies about AI taking over our jobs, including those of programmers and codereaders. But if people don’t understand programming and data science, how can they identify mistakes or explore alternative solutions? Even if AI were to handle 98% of programming tasks perfectly tomorrow, we’d still need human competence to tackle that remaining 2%. Imagine the next generation, unfamiliar with coding but only skilled in prompting AI....

October 27, 2023 · 4 min · André R. Sortland
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Grit

What is Grit? Grit is one of my favorite words. Its one of those words that encompasses a lot of my personal values when it comes to all aspects of life I strive to improve in. Be it in weightlifting, disc golf or everything tech that I want to learn and understand better than I do now. Wikipedia defines grit in the following way: “grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on a person’s perseverance of effort combined with their passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective)....

October 11, 2023 · 3 min · André R. Sortland
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Create and host your website for free!

Ever felt like you had something you wanted to share with the world? In today’s digital landscape, there are several providers that advertise free hosting. While it’s true that you can host a site for free, you often encounter significant limitations and are pushed into using the host’s ecosystem for website creation. Many times, it feels more like a trial version, leading you to invest hours in building a website, only to discover that you need features like X or Z, which are part of the paid plan....

October 8, 2023 · 3 min · André R. Sortland