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John Solly

Hi, I'm John, a Software Engineer with a decade of experience building, deploying, and maintaining cloud-native geospatial solutions. I currently serve as a senior software engineer at HazardHub (A Guidewire Offering), where I work on a variety of infrastructure and application development projects.

Throughout my career, I've built applications on platforms like Esri and Mapbox while also leveraging open-source GIS technologies such as OpenLayers, GeoServer, and GDAL. This blog is where I share useful articles with the GeoDev community. Check out my portfolio to see my latest work!

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How to Break the YouTube Addiction: Turning Off Your History

in Productivity
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Learn how to break the YouTube addiction by turning off your history. Follow these simple steps to disable recommendations

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Why Cosine Similarity Beats Tags for Blog Organization

in Web Dev
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Organizing blog posts efficiently is crucial for enhancing user experience and ensuring readers can easily find related content. Traditionally, this has been achieved through tagging systems. In this post, I explore an alternative approach that leverages large language models and similarity scores to automate finding and displaying related posts, eliminating the need for traditional tagging.

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