i'm tim bornholdt. this is my website.

Gus, Charlee, and me, pausing for a group selfie while hanging out at Utepils on the day before Father's Day 2023

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ what's my deal?

I help people figure out how tech stuff works.

I'm also CTO at Bionic Giant, a software architect, proud dad, happily married, avid public speaker, Ruby on Rails/iOS developer, anecdotalist, musician, and endurance athlete.

You can read more about me here.

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Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power always reveals. — Robert Caro
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✍️ recent posts

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    Blazing Trails with Rails, Strava, and ChatGPT

    Published on September 01, 2023
    People are constantly talking about how LLMs (like the one that powers ChatGPT) will take jobs, especially software engineers. I put that to the test by using ChatGPT to help build a tiny, well-defined feature for my website.

  • a fluffy baby orange kitten with a fluffy baby puppy on its back in a grassy field with an epic sunrise in the background
    Prompt Engineering: How to Think Like an AI

    Published on May 12, 2023
    If you want to get the most out of ChatGPT and other LLM-powered tools, you need to know how to write the best possible prompts. This article will take you from "what is an LLM?" through "complex prompt chaining" and make you a prompt engineering expert in no time!

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