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Griff Polk
Griff Polk

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One Year On.

On February 7, 2024, I joined dev.to, and made a profile. Wow. It’s one year later, and I can’t believe how it’s gone. 🎉
I started out with a post called:


And all it said was “ Mine was actually pretty cool! What happened to me was using a GPT-2 Model called DistilGPT-2. I typed in two words, “Geometry Dash” (I’m an addict to it lol, GD IS THE BEST GAME I DONT CARE WHAT YOU SAY), and it generated an extremely long Paragraph about it… and I quote… IN THE NEXT POST!!! Lol theres just not enough room in this one”. Tell me that isn’t horrible to read. But, I did stay true to my word and post the follow up.

What makes me cringe today is getting political, after I made a post about the Willow Project. Don’t remind me.

I think it was about that time, mid-March, where I got my first follower:


I remember how overly excited I was, and couldn’t believe it. Sadly, they aren’t active anymore. :(

My best performing post (not counting a birthday junk post), was a post about

and I obtained the valuable -1 comments!

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So much more has happened and I’m probably going to make a more detailed post when I have the time, but I wanted to announce a bit of a change. I am going to be posting a lot about aviation (but the interesting tech stuff behind it so it is still dev-related). Just wanted to make this post today while it was exactly the 1-year anniversary.

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BestCodes •

Awesome article! It's cool how you've grown since joining DEV. Keep up the good work, and best wishes on your coding journey to come!

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Griff Polk •

Thanks.🙏