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Craig Dennis

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🎬 I'm so incredibly excited to share my latest video that shows off the breadth and power of the @CloudflareDev platform. Pardon my dork, but I think this is the best way to explain it. 🧱 Link in 🧵 because of, yknow algorithms.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

My latest course "Introduction to APIs" got released today! Incredibly honored to release it for free on @freeCodeCamp . Been a long time goal of mine to work with this amazing organization that is keeping tech education free for all! #learntocode

APIs for Beginners - How to use an API (Full Course / Tutorial)

⚠️ Watch the UPDATED version of this course: https://youtu.be/WXsD0ZgxjRwWhat is an API? Learn all about APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in this fu...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

Uh oh @CloudflareTV got some new toys. I'm really into this code.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

In 2019 I published "Introduction to APIs" on @freeCodeCamp . Since it's launch it's been viewed by about ~4 milli👀n learners! These days, 2019 feels like it's ~30 years ago, so today, I'm super excited to share an entirely updated version 🧵

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

@mitch0z Hard as Zuck

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

Excited to announce that I've started a new quest with @twilio on the Developer Education team 🎉

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Craig Dennis

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4 years

@tlakomy Stay home, stay safe.

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Craig Dennis

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5 years

Excellent breakdown (as usual) on Serverless from @martinfowler

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

from @treehouse import exit # Tomorrow will be my last day as a Treehouse teacher. 😭 What an amazing ride it's been! 🌮 If you're a student of mine, it's been an absolute honor to be a part of your journey. 💪🏾 Please keep me posted on it! 🚀 exit("You've got this!")

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 years

Pssst @treehouse students. Stick with it! 💪

What is Imposter Syndrome?

Join Treehouse today and start your free 7-Day trial: https://trhouse.co/3qcXv37Today, you will be given the rare chance to witness a budding software devel...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 months

🏃 @CloudflareDev Developer Week 2024 🧡 ICYMI 🧡 Speed run

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

My daughter Hattie and I are very proud to release a coding tutorial video that we created together, Classmates. ❤ If you've got someone in your life who is code curious, come hangout with us! 🙌 We can't wait to see what you build! 🚀

Connect with your classmates using code!

📚Teacher's Notes and Guide can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/TwilioDevEd/classmates-twimlAre you missing your classmates from school? In this video...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

🛝 I want to invite you to come play with us! Today we launched our Multi Modal Playground on @CloudflareDev 🧡

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

@NickWhiteReal Liking this tweet will disqualify you from the contest.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

I am so incredibly happy to share that my latest course Understanding Webhooks has been published!🚀 Extremely honored to be adding my second course to the wonderful @freeCodeCamp community who makes great strides at keeping tech education free for all.

Webhooks for Beginners - Full Course

What are webhooks? Webhooks allow different web applications and services to communicate with each other. In this course for beginners, you will learn everyt...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

There's a @Twilio tradition of every employee writing an application to earn their coveted track jacket. Got mine today! Want one?

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

1 year

Shout out to the fellow cheekfreak who gave this superfan her first @cheekfaceREAL setlist. She's currently sleeping with it. Such a wonderful show y'all 💖💖💖

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 months

Huge if true

Lizzie Siegle

@lizziepika

6 months

Day 1 @ Cloudflare ✅ I'm excited to join @rickyrobinett 's team as a developer advocate! They're moving quickly, doing really cool work w/ AI, Workers, and building a #betterinternet

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

new selfie stands at the airport :(

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 months

It is a bonkers time to be a builder! 🤯 Come build AI Apps with us on @CloudflareDev

Explore Workers AI - Serverless AI Offerings Deployed to Region Earth

Have you had a chance to explore all of the tools available to you on the Cloudflare Workers platform?Come take a stroll through our developer solutions that...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 months

🚀In this COMPLETELY 🆓 course I will show you how to add logging, analytics, caching, model fallback, retries, and MOAR to all of your AI apps...no matter which provider you've chosen!!!

Cloudflare Developers

@CloudflareDev

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🥳AI Gateway is now GA!

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

1 year

listen to cheekface.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

3 years

I just had the very surreal experience of searching for a hello gif...and finding one of myself. So, hello! This is from my Introduction to APIs course on @freeCodeCamp

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

The @Twilio platform makes it incredibly fun to build! That's why I'm so excited to share my latest course 📢 Twilio Essentials: Messaging, Voice, and Serverless Come hang out! Can't wait to see what you build! #WeBuildAtTwilio 👀 @TwilioDevs

Learn Twilio Messaging, Voice, and Serverless (Full Course!)

In this hands-on code-along course for people new to Twilio, you’ll create inbound and outbound SMS and MMS based applications, make outgoing calls and creat...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

Smarty party @treehouse

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

@simpleprogrammr cc @pluralsight & @ManningBooks

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

APIs for Beginners 2023 - How to use an API (Full Course / Tutorial)

What is an API? Learn all about APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in this full tutorial for beginners. You will learn what APIs do, why APIs exist, a...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

💥Wanna take @Meta Llama 3 for a test spin? I've updated the @CloudflareDev Vanilla Chat Repo to support it. That means you're a couple of clicks away from running the latest state-of-the-art model on region: Earth.... for FREE

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

🎉Introduction to APIs broke half a million views today! Completely blown away by the positive community of life-long learners that surrounds @freeCodeCamp . Also found out through the comments that I look like: Saul Goodman Shawn Michaels Rabbit-dad from Zootopia Stanley Tucci

Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

My latest course "Introduction to APIs" got released today! Incredibly honored to release it for free on @freeCodeCamp . Been a long time goal of mine to work with this amazing organization that is keeping tech education free for all! #learntocode

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

Found this wonderful @treehouse artifact in my Downloads directory. #thatsbananas 🤗 @kennethlove

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

So many better reasons to be annoyed at me

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 months

👔 Happy Father's Day to those who celebrate! I made my dad an API. It's called API Roll. It helps augment the work of making bad dad puns. It's built on @CloudflareDev Workers uses Workers AI, @honojs and @zodtypes (Showing off my Dad Zod)

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

Stomper is such a Cheekfreak @cheekfaceREAL

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

3 years

Pretty disappointed in how this all shook out y'all. Here are the amazing Treehouse employees about to hit the market:

Treehouse Employees

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Chalkers

@chalkers

3 years

"In an announcement sent last week over the company's internal Slack messaging channel,..., Treehouse notified employees that their jobs and benefits would end on Sept. 30, without severance."

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

My 9 year old 👱‍♀️was naive enough to think she could just email my favorite band and ask them to wish me happy birthday. @cheekfaceREAL sweetly sent me a really nice bday video! A pleasant reminder to let your kids believe anything is possible. Also, listen to Cheekface! 🎧

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 years

This is what a programmer looks like. We were just chatting about variables over a smoothie. #girlswhocode #soon

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

Been spending a lot of time in the old screencasting booth lately. Getting super close to dropping some new @treehouse #Python content. 🚀

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

Psst @eggheadio ... tons of really great teachers from @treehouse just got let go today and would love to keep creating content for learners.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

Hey there! Why not stay inside and learn a bit about APIs? You could use the @kroger API to know when toilet paper is in stock at your local grocery store.

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@freeCodeCamp

5 years

APIs are something you'll use a lot as a developer. So you should understand what they are and why they're important. If you need a basic intro, here's a helpful (and free) video course that'll teach you how to use APIs once and for all.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

3 months

🧑‍🍳I'm cooking up a new URL Shortening service on the @CloudflareDev Developer Platform. I had to build the admin interface, and I decided to lean into the new runWithTools Workers AI functionality we launched last week. I'd love your hot takes/vibes on this approach!

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

I followed everyone who followed me here, mostly early in career devs from @treehouse . I've loved watching everyone grow and build super cool stuff! I hope everyone learned the lesson from this dudebro collapse. Don't work for people who don't respect you! You got this! 💪🚀

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

We've officially moved to Berkeley. Tell me everything I need to know about, tacos first please. 🌮📦

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

Everyone is winging it all the time. Every single person that impresses you about how fast/clean/smart they code, got started and felt the same things you are going through right now. You got this! 💪🚀

Will McGugan

@willmcgugan

5 months

Developers over 40. What advice would you give to developers just starting their career?

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

🎉APIs for Beginners surpassed a million @YouTube viewers this week 🍾🌮 Big shout out to @freeCodeCamp their amazing mission of helping people learn to code for free! And a huge thanks and high five to all of you that shared it! 🚀

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

3 years

Understanding Webhooks just broke 100k 👀 I use a @LIFX bulb in this course and wire it up to the @GitHub repository via webhooks and a @twilio Function. I left it on. When learners fork my repo, my lights flash in my office. Thanks for brightening my day y'all! 💡

Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

I am so incredibly happy to share that my latest course Understanding Webhooks has been published!🚀 Extremely honored to be adding my second course to the wonderful @freeCodeCamp community who makes great strides at keeping tech education free for all.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

Introduction to #NumPy coming soon to a @treehouse near you. #learntocode #python #data

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

📦 Packing up our place in Berkeley and headed back to PDX 🌲 🤗Loved and appreciated my time here meeting so many brilliant minds 🧠 🤖Gonna miss the sidewalk AI demos from folks who couldn't get into the event. ✈️ I'll def be back soon, gotta hang w/ the 🔥builder community

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

baby cheekfreaks' first show

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

@triplec1988 @lindydonna @Ana_M_Medina Man, I use that book every day.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

1 year

Business

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 months

📈 Building with Cloudflare Workers is so much fun y'all 💪🚀

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

@editingemily All I know is I can't wait for this part in @StephenKing 's next horror book/flick

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

Absolutely honored to have been a part of your journey! 🚀💪

Pranav Shikarpur

@snpranav

5 months

Wow! Absolutely stoked to meet the person who taught me python on @treehouse when I was in high school school! Grateful to meet you in person at #sw2con 🫶 @craigsdennis gave an awesome talk on using LLMs to build a whole wide range of applications (including a Karaoke Machine

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 months

@cirkelnio It's always C

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

7 years

while (onSabbatical) { 🌮; 🏊; }

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 months

👨‍🏫As we start launching these AI apps we're building, there are common questions that are bound to show up. How's it doing? How are people using this? How much is this going to cost?!! Before you go and build a custom solution, let's chat a bit about AI Gateway from

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

Very excited to share the first of many upcoming videos all about Developer Fundamentals. We're doing our best to capture all those pain points developers face along their learning journey, and this one here is a big one. File Systems 🗂 📽

What is the file system and why should I learn about it? // Developer...

Understanding the file system is a critical developer fundamental that is often not explained. You'll spend a lot of time navigating file structures as a de...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

7 years

// Happy new Year();

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

Yo! @AIatMeta dropped Meta Llama 3 today! You want drama free Llama 3 inference? Here is a @GoogleColab notebook running inference on @CloudflareDev Workers AI:

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 months

Awesome talk about using the power of graphs to control logic flow using @LangChainAI 's LangGraph

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

@hankgreen What's scary about this?... Yikes!

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

Writing a script for beginners where I need to introduce the asynchronous nature of #JavaScript , very early on.🤔 I don't think it's even possible to avoid the meta easter-egg #dadjoke of "This will make sense eventually ... I promise." 🤗Hug your JS teachers, this is gnarly.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

Yo @AIAtMeta just released their newest Llama 3.1 model. We got it up and running on @CloudflareDev . 🎁I built a template for you. Wanna give it a free test spin on your own globally distributed full stack chat app? 🧡

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

Running AI inference on a plane via @CloudflareDev Workers AI really makes that saying "deployed to region Earth" hit different 🌍

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 months

Yo, Austin! Come hang out and hack with the @CloudflareDev AI team!

AI Hacknight @ Cloudflare · Luma

Hang out, meet folks, hack! All levels welcome! Agenda 5:00pm - Doors + Grab Food + Network 6:00pm - Talks 6:30pm - Hack 7:30pm - Lightning Demos from y'all

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

. @treasureporth made a crocheted 🍅 to throw at me when I tell bad jokes. You say tomato, I say tomatowwww.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

⌛️ Did you know that Wednesdays are the best day to get started on projects? I mean the best time to get started is now, and it happens to be Wednesday. Been wanting to build and explore AI apps? Here's a great way to get started on a "Hello, World!" AI app this beautiful

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 months

🧰 In the spirit of #BuildInPublic , I'm excited to share my latest AI weekend project that I built with @CloudflareDev Workers AI, @honojs , and @LangChainAI . 🎸 I was pretty bummed how little some AI models knew about my absolute favorite band @cheekfaceREAL ... so I built a

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

We need talk to @treasureporth about the elephant in the room. #CascadiaPHP18

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 months

Did you know you could access all of the @Cloudflare Workers AI models from a single API call? (for 🆓 while we are in BETA) Come explore these common use cases with me using @Python in a @ProjectJupyter Notebook!

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 months

Incredible turnout at the #AGIBuildersMeetup @CloudflareDev @bentomlai

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

@StarPlayrX @cassidoo Did you just...nevermind.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

We are on a mission to remove all your bingle bongles. #learntocode #100DaysOfCode #TikTok @TwilioDevs @TwilioQuest

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

I just published my first two #Python courses on @treehouse . Looking forward to hanging out with you! 🚀

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

@cheekfaceREAL Greekface

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

Sent from your Twilio trial account - Hello world

The Sassiest Semite

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6 years

You’re being murdered. You look the killer in the eye & your last words are the last text you sent:

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

9 months

May this year be the year you update your web page footer to update the year dynamically. And lots of whatever else that brings you joy! 🗓️

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

Proof. If he's not real, then who used the Nest lock code you assigned him due to our lack of chimney?

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

9 years

You should come learn all about how to get started using @Github on @treehouse .

GitHub Basics Course

139-minute Development Tools course: GitHub is a collaboration platform built on top of a distributed version control system called Git and is the ...

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 months

🎶 I can see clearly now... 👀 Come hang out and explore some use cases with our Vision models on @CloudflareDev Workers AI

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 months

Yo! I'm going to be speaking at @devrelcon New York, taking place July 18-19! Come hang out in Brooklyn, New York for my talk, Augmented Creativity, where we’ll keep ourselves in the loop and rapidly live-build a demo using AI. Tickets are on sale now at

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

A recent review of this course said: "This guy's voice makes me feel like i'm being hugged. I can't remember if i've ever watched a more positive video." If you're into that sort of thing... Get in here🤗

freeCodeCamp.org

@freeCodeCamp

4 years

As a developer, you'll likely work with APIs on a regular basis. So you should understand what they are & why they're important. For a good basic intro, check out this helpful (and free) video course that'll teach you how to use APIs once and for all.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 years

Pssst @treehouse students:

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

Daughter: Why are you and @CelesteHDennis so red? Me: Because we spent a bunch of time on the beach in Panamá. Daughter: More like Tanamá. Me: ... I've never been more proud of you. #dadjokes #daughterjokes

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 years

Here's how @venkat_s explains how streams fuse together calls in a reference pipeline. #JavaOne #TeachIt #PreachIt

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 months

1/ Attending #DevRelCon in New York was an incredible experience. The sense of community and mutual support among everyone was truly inspiring. 🤝

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

4 years

You can now pipe realtime audio into your @Twilio phone calls. Can't wait to see what you build!

Twilio Changelog

@TwilioChangelog

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Bi-directional Streaming support with Media Streams

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Craig Dennis

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7 months

@shashiwhocodes If you aren't failing, you aren't trying. If you aren't trying, you aren't learning. You got this.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

3 years

@ChloeCondon @twittysuch I worked with a guy who said he couldn't drink Dr. Pepper because it tasted like ants smell. I was equally sad and jealous of his superpower.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

2 years

On behalf of educators everywhere...we're sorry! #LearnToCode 📸 @lizziepika ❤️ @TwilioDevs #100DaysOfCode #100Devs 🎮 @TwilioQuest #TikTok

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

7 months

💗Did you just swipe right on an AI generated potential partner? 📷Come explore the new @CloudflareDev Text-To-Image and Image-To-Text APIs with me using the amazing @streamlit platform. 🤯 It is a bonkers time to be a builder!

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

8 months

🧠With all of these new Text Generation models popping up on Workers AI, how do we choose the right one? 🧑‍💻I was wishing I could do a quick speed dating session with each model...so I built a Jupyter Notebook to do just that! Come hang out! @CloudflareDev

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@CloudflareDev

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With so many text generation models, how do you know how to choose the right one? Explore this Jupyter notebook for guidance.

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5 years

Think you're having a bad coding day? Some code I helped write just slurped a Grammy award winning artist into the cloud. 😱😱😱

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3 years

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APIs for Beginners - How to use an API (Full Course / Tutorial)

⚠️ Watch the UPDATED version of this course: https://youtu.be/WXsD0ZgxjRwWhat is an API? Learn all about APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in this fu...

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Craig Dennis

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2 years

If anti-racist means anti-white to you, I can logically deduce that, in your belief system, white means racist. You might not believe that, but you feel that. It doesn't have to be that way, and quite literally what the movement is about. There is still time to learn and grow.

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

7 years

Behind the scenes of @mosesfinlay blowing us @treehouse teachers away. #bts @teamtreehouse

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

6 years

I'm looking for a few volunteers to preview and test out my latest @treehouse course Introduction to #NumPy . Interested? #thanksinadvance . .

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

9 months

At @github HQ and just wanted to say, good job today everyone

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

3 months

🎸🧡A few weeks back in #Austin , @CloudflareDev hosted an AI Hacknight. @MatthewKnipfer graciously offered to capture it via film (he'd like to do more of this for y'all Austin). I used some AI tools to make a theme song ( @suno_ai_ ) and then used AI tools to edit it

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Craig Dennis

@craigsdennis

5 years

Daughter just explained Tom & Jerry as "an old cartoon from like the 1900s or something"

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