Hi, my name is Austin Gil.

A poem about waves

I can’t say I was in the mood to ride my bike, today, but with dry roads and nothing but rain in the forecast, I had to take advantage. And anyway, I had to go across town to do a friend a favor, and could probably make it to Skidmore bluffs before the sun went […]

How are you doing? Good? Good! There’s some things I think we should talk about. You know we go way back. From CDs in the mail with internet minutes, from AOL screen names and chatrooms asking ASL, from waiting literally five minutes for a single image to load one line at a time, from the […]

A post discussing the nuances around location-based programming. Various ways to access user location, how they can fail, and what to do about it.

This post covers what I've learned about Akamai's VPC, how I deployed one with Terraform, and why it's good for security.

This post covers infrastructure improvement ideas for an existing AI application's architecture for better delivery, performance, and cost-reduction.

This post covers preparing our app for production, deploying to a VPS, running it with a process manager, and using a reverse-proxy with an SSL.

In this post we'll walk through our existing AI application and address bugs, security, and reliability concerns for most apps and AI apps specifically.

In this post we create a Dialog component with Qwik before I share my strategy for dealing with the nuances of AI image generation with OpenAI.

Prompt engineering lets you modify AI behavior without changing application code. This post covers tools and techniques for prompt engineering.