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Bookmarks from 2024

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:45:49 +0000

111 bookmarks from 2024

The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

Saved on 2024-10-08 · eugeneyan.com

Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning.

tech ai

Your company needs Junior devs

Saved on 2024-10-06 · softwaredoug.com

Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate

career management tech

Doing support makes you a better engineer - by Ian Vanagas

Saved on 2024-10-03 · newsletter.posthog.com

What we've learned about providing support that doesn't suck (and does scale)!

tech career learning

Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck - Kellblog

Saved on 2024-10-03 · kellblog.com

“If you can’t explain it to a six year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein There are two types of people in business: Simplifiers: who make complex things simple Complexifiers: who make simple things complex Quick joke Question: What … Continue reading →

career tech

Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack

Saved on 2024-10-03 · benn.substack.com

The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.

tech ai

Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-03 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark - Stack Overflo

Saved on 2024-10-03 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

Simplify Your RAG Implementation Using Foundational Models | AWS Marketplace

Saved on 2024-10-02 · aws.amazon.com

Learn how to deploy production-ready vector storage capabilities, using tried-and-tested components already available in the tech stack of most organizations.

tech ai

One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-10-02 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

What Research Says About Cats: They’re Selfish, Unfeeling, and Environmentally Harmful

Saved on 2024-09-18 · vox.com

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate c

science

The hidden cost of speed - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-09-13 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-09-13 · stackoverflow.blog

cloud tech

Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - Christian Hollinger

Saved on 2024-09-13 · chollinger.com

A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.

tech

The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing | The .NET Tools Blog

Saved on 2024-09-10 · blog.jetbrains.com

Taking ReSharper out of process is a monumental undertaking. We covered the magnitude of this in a previous blog post and posted some updates on YouTrack along the way. In the simplest

tech dotnet

American data spies will never care where the servers are

Saved on 2024-09-08 · world.hey.com

In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pretend to comply with the ruling, without changing anything consequential about how they use American internet services. The erroneous consensu

cloud tech

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

Saved on 2024-09-08 · world.hey.com

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.

aws cloud tech

Don't be fooled by serverless

Saved on 2024-09-08 · world.hey.com

Cloud aficionados love pinning the true promise of the cloud on serverless functions and services. Not getting the savings you thought you would with the cloud? It's because you didn't go serverless. Frustrated with the complexity of the cloud? Serverless! Performance questions?

aws cloud tech

An Ode to Deluxe Paint | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2024-09-07 · datagubbe.se

design history tech

What engineering can teach (and learn from) us

Saved on 2024-09-07 · hillelwayne.com

This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to inter

career tech

We Are Not Special

Saved on 2024-09-07 · hillelwayne.com

This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge.

career tech

Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -

Saved on 2024-09-07 · highscalability.com

Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook. Does anyone know if this is t

facebook history tech

The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason

Saved on 2024-09-07 · baldurbjarnason.com

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

history tech

Making LLMs’ default architecture more effective - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-09-07 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

Saved on 2024-09-06 · world.hey.com

Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month

aws cloud tech

LLMs evolve quickly. Their underlying architecture, not so much. - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-31 · stackoverflow.blog

architecture tech ai

Bookmarks from 2024

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:45:49 +0000

111 bookmarks from 2024

The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)

Saved on 2024-08-31 · tomeraberba.ch

:::note This article was updated in response to some helpful comments on Hacker News. I originally incorrectly formatted the Pacific Time Zone daylight saving times relative to the Eastern Time Zone!…

history tech

Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types? – Daniels Networking Blog

Saved on 2024-08-31 · lostintransit.se

history tech

Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-31 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech ai

Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-31 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech

How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40

Saved on 2024-08-31 · davekiss.com

I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.

javascript tech ai

Nintendo completely sat out the video game graphics wars. It’s winning anyway. - Sherwood News

Saved on 2024-08-31 · sherwood.news

What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money.

games history

Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) – charity.wtf

Saved on 2024-08-20 · charity.wtf

Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…

tech

AI Act is Here

Saved on 2024-08-20 · alvaromontoro.com

The European Union enabled the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first-ever legal framework on AI, addressing its risks and positioning Europe as a leader in AI legislation. This article reviews the AI Act, the different risk categories, and how (and when) it will impact developme

history tech ai

The Curse of Knowledge - Ness Labs

Saved on 2024-08-20 · nesslabs.com

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.

career psychology

This developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-08-20 · stackoverflow.blog

code programming tech

Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net

Saved on 2024-08-11 · benkuhn.net

overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor

career leadership tech

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2024-08-11 · datagubbe.se

games history programming tech

Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer

Saved on 2024-08-06 · matthewstrom.com

What exists in the space between riffing and ripping

design history tech

Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues | Brightball

Saved on 2024-07-25 · brightball.com

Their creator has disavowed them. The measure and definition is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable timelines, are easily gamed, demotivate and degrade the performance of your team.

career management

The real 10x developer makes their whole team better - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-07-20 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech

Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-07-20 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Are We Really Engineers?

Saved on 2024-07-20 · hillelwayne.com

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the

career tech

Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you - Stack O

Saved on 2024-07-20 · stackoverflow.blog

career tech ai

How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2024-07-20 · smashingmagazine.com

Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several exp

javascript performance tech

Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)

Saved on 2024-07-20 · samcurry.net

Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from th

code history tech

Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications

Saved on 2024-07-20 · martinfowler.com

Five patterns to help Single Page Applications fetch data from remote sources

code tech

2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It — Smashing Magazine

Saved on 2024-07-20 · smashingmagazine.com

The 2-page login pattern is becoming pervasive. Here are the reasons behind this design choice and alternative solutions to create a more efficient and user-friendly authentication experience.

code tech

Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code ass

Saved on 2024-06-07 · stackoverflow.blog

code tech ai

Enlightenmentware

Saved on 2024-06-05 · mmapped.blog

Software that makes you a better programmer.

code tech

The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack

Saved on 2024-06-05 · tjaart.substack.com

When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple

history tech

Bookmarks from 2024

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:45:49 +0000

111 bookmarks from 2024

UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader

Saved on 2024-06-05 · matthewstrom.com

I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

design tech

You should keep a developer’s journal - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-06-05 · stackoverflow.blog

tech

Here’s What a Good LGBTQ Ally Looks Like

Saved on 2024-06-02 · vox.com

In response to critics calling Taylor Swift’s latest video, packed with queer imagery, self-serving, here are some examples of how to be a good LGBTQ ally,

lgbt politics

The Assimilationist, or: On the Unexpected Cost of Passing as a Trans Woman

Saved on 2024-06-02 · vox.com

The trouble with finding my true self in the beauty aisles.

psychology lgbt politics

State of the Terminal | g.p. anders

Saved on 2024-05-25 · gpanders.com

This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also

history tech

Why do only a small percentage of GenAI projects actually make it into prod

Saved on 2024-05-25 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi

Saved on 2024-05-19 · remotesynthesis.com

Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community.

career tech

We Need To Rewild The Internet

Saved on 2024-05-19 · noemamag.com

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

cloud history tech

Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots - Cybernetist

Saved on 2024-05-12 · cybernetist.com

It all started as a joke. I was in a group chat with a few of my friends and we were talking about football (soccer for the American readers). I entered the chat during a mildly heated discussion about the manager of a team one of my friends supports. It was going on for a bit wh

programming tech

How to succeed as a data engineer without the burnout - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-04-26 · stackoverflow.blog

data database tech

Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy

Saved on 2024-04-23 · theatlantic.com

It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?

psychology

ESA - Telling time on the Moon

Saved on 2024-04-21 · esa.int

A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satellite – as well as dev

science

How to get somebody fired using Git - DEV Community

Saved on 2024-04-21 · dev.to

This is Billy. He is a trainee developer working for an important company. Unfortunately...

code git tech

Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James

Saved on 2024-04-16 · ramijames.com

Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create.

career psychology tech

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

Saved on 2024-04-16 · predr.ag

The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

history tech

The State of Generative AI, 2024 - by Alberto Romero

Saved on 2024-04-16 · thealgorithmicbridge.com

A nuanced analysis and a glimpse of the future

tech ai

Community products: Reflections and looking ahead - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-04-10 · stackoverflow.blog

history tech

Patterns of Legacy Displacement

Saved on 2024-04-01 · martinfowler.com

Patterns for the effective modernization of legacy software systems

tech thoughtworks

Update on apps distributed in the European Union - Support - Apple Develope

Saved on 2024-04-01 · developer.apple.com

apple politics tech

How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments

Saved on 2024-03-07 · discord.com

Join us as we tell the story of how we transitioned all of Discord’s backend and infrastructure development to a Linux-based Cloud Development Environment with the help of our friends at Coder.

games tech

CSS { In Real Life } | Design Patterns that Encourage Junk Data

Saved on 2024-03-07 · css-irl.info

data database tech

Even LLMs need education—quality data makes LLMs overperform - Stack Overfl

Saved on 2024-03-07 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Defining socially responsible AI: How we select partners - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-03-07 · stackoverflow.blog

tech ai

Can a programming language implement time travel? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

history programming tech

First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing

Saved on 2024-02-20 · newatlas.com

Researchers have used a novel technique to 3D print brain tissue whose cells developed into functional neurons that communicated with each other in a matter of weeks. The approach could be used to study the healthy and unhealthy brain or test drugs.

science tech

Bookmarks from 2024

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111 bookmarks from 2024

Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests | nicole@web

Saved on 2024-02-20 · ntietz.com

programming tech testing

Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic S

Saved on 2024-02-20 · itsnicethat.com

An extract from the designer’s recent publication Comic Sans, Is it Really That Bad? delves into the history of the contentious font, uncovering the story of its creation and early uses.

history tech

why lowercase letters save data | endtimes.dev

Saved on 2024-01-25 · endtimes.dev

programming tech

Never underestimate HTML - HTMHell

Saved on 2024-01-24 · htmhell.dev

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

programming tech

google tech ai

What we talk about when we talk about impostor syndrome - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

management psychology tech

If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-01-24 · stackoverflow.blog

programming tech