{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/12/images/1100132927.webp" title="The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog" link="https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing" domain="notashelf.dev" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, programming" excerpt="A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/12/images/1100132016.png" title="Best practices for third-party data acquisition: powering AI context - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/08/best-practices-third-party-data-acquisition-powering-ai-context/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="This post explores crucial lessons learned in the trenches of data licensing, drawing insights from Stack Overflow and the growing importance of socially responsible data practices in a changing internet landscape." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/12/images/1100131578.png" title="Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/12/beyond-speed-measuring-engineering-success-by-impact-not-velocity/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, career, productivity, programming" excerpt="If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/12/images/1100128565.png" title="Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/15/whether-ai-is-a-bubble-or-revolution-how-does-software-survive/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Money is pouring into the AI industry. 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Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a grid fit for the future." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/12/images/1055999701.png" title="Open-source AI: Are younger developers leading the way? - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/07/open-source-ai-are-younger-developers-leading-the-way" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-04-19" tags="ai, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Software Architecture in an AI World – O’Reilly" link="https://www.oreilly.com/radar/software-architecture-in-an-ai-world" domain="oreilly.com" date="2025-04-16" tags="ai, architecture, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/13/images/1055999698.png" title="From training to inference: The new role of web data in LLMs - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/03/from-training-to-inference-the-new-role-of-web-data-in-llms" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-04-13" tags="ai, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/13/images/1055999696.png" title="What is Local-first Web Development? | alexop.dev" link="https://alexop.dev/posts/what-is-local-first-web-development" domain="alexop.dev" date="2025-04-13" tags="architecture, programming, tech" excerpt="Explore the power of local-first web development and its impact on modern web applications. 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You use ChatGPT to summarise a d" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/13/images/1055999676.jpg" title="Health indicators and power ups: The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the ph" link="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250409-game-transfer-phenomenon-the-people-who-see-video-games-in-the-physical-world" domain="bbc.com" date="2025-04-11" tags="games, psychology, tech" excerpt="Video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world, but sometimes they bleed into people's lives offline in surprising and disturbing ways." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/13/images/1055999693.webp" title="The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella" link="https://annievella.com/posts/the-software-engineering-identity-crisis" domain="annievella.com" date="2025-04-11" tags="career, management, tech, ai" excerpt="Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. 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SQLite can handle millions of QPS, and terabytes of data. However, our efforts to scale our Managed Jobs feature ran up against the one downfall of SQLite: many concurrent writers. Since SkyPilot typically runs as a CLI on " >}}