{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999592.jpg" title="The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning" link="https://eugeneyan.com/writing/first-rule-of-ml" domain="eugeneyan.com" date="2024-10-08" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999601.png" title="Your company needs Junior devs" link="https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniors" domain="softwaredoug.com" date="2024-10-06" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999600.jpg" title="Doing support makes you a better engineer - by Ian Vanagas" link="https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/doing-support-makes-you-a-better" domain="newsletter.posthog.com" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech, career, learning" excerpt="What we've learned about providing support that doesn't suck (and does scale)!" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999599.jpg" title="Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck - Kellblog" link="https://kellblog.com/2015/05/13/career-advice-simplifiers-go-far-complexifiers-get-stuck" domain="kellblog.com" date="2024-10-03" tags="career, tech" excerpt="“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 →" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999598.jpg" title="Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack" link="https://benn.substack.com/p/do-ai-companies-work" domain="benn.substack.com" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999597.png" title="Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/26/masked-self-attention-how-llms-learn-relationships-between-tokens" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999596.png" title="Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark - Stack Overflo" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/23/where-developers-feel-ai-coding-tools-are-working-and-where-they-re-missing-the-mark" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999594.png" title="Simplify Your RAG Implementation Using Foundational Models | AWS Marketplace" link="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/build-learn/data-analytics/rag-implementation" domain="aws.amazon.com" date="2024-10-02" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Learn how to deploy production-ready vector storage capabilities, using tried-and-tested components already available in the tech stack of most organizations." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999593.png" title="One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/10/gen-ai-llm-create-test-developers-coding-software-code-quality" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-02" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999591.jpg" title="What Research Says About Cats: They’re Selfish, Unfeeling, and Environmentally Harmful" link="https://www.vox.com/2014/10/16/6982177/the-case-against-owning-cats" domain="vox.com" date="2024-09-18" tags="science" excerpt="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" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999590.png" title="The hidden cost of speed - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/05/the-hidden-cost-of-speed" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-09-13" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999589.png" title="Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/04/best-practices-for-cost-efficient-kafka-clusters" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-09-13" tags="cloud, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999588.webp" title="Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - Christian Hollinger" link="https://chollinger.com/blog/2024/08/why-i-still-self-host-my-servers-and-what-ive-recently-learned" domain="chollinger.com" date="2024-09-13" tags="tech" excerpt="A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999587.png" title="The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing | The .NET Tools Blog" link="https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/01/05/resharper-out-of-process" domain="blog.jetbrains.com" date="2024-09-10" tags="tech, dotnet" excerpt="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" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999322.jpg" title="American data spies will never care where the servers are" link="https://world.hey.com/dhh/american-data-spies-will-never-care-where-the-servers-are-371d4016" domain="world.hey.com" date="2024-09-08" tags="cloud, tech" excerpt="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" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999426.jpg" title="Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices" link="https://world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-microservices-59625580" domain="world.hey.com" date="2024-09-08" tags="aws, cloud, tech" excerpt="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. " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999385.jpg" title="Don't be fooled by serverless" link="https://world.hey.com/dhh/don-t-be-fooled-by-serverless-776cd730" domain="world.hey.com" date="2024-09-08" tags="aws, cloud, tech" excerpt="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? " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999527.webp" title="An Ode to Deluxe Paint | datagubbe.se" link="https://www.datagubbe.se/dpaint/" domain="datagubbe.se" date="2024-09-07" tags="design, history, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999183.webp" title="What engineering can teach (and learn from) us" link="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/what-we-can-learn" domain="hillelwayne.com" date="2024-09-07" tags="career, tech" excerpt="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" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999184.webp" title="We Are Not Special" link="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special" domain="hillelwayne.com" date="2024-09-07" tags="career, tech" excerpt="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." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999585.jpg" title="Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -" link="https://highscalability.com/did-the-microsoft-stack-kill-myspace" domain="highscalability.com" date="2024-09-07" tags="facebook, history, tech" excerpt="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" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999583.jpg" title="The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason" link="https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus" domain="baldurbjarnason.com" date="2024-09-07" tags="history, tech" excerpt="Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999586.png" title="Making LLMs’ default architecture more effective - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/29/making-llms-default-architecture-more-effective" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-09-07" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999524.png" title="The Big Cloud Exit FAQ" link="https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010" domain="world.hey.com" date="2024-09-06" tags="aws, cloud, tech" excerpt="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 " >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/18/images/1055999584.png" title="LLMs evolve quickly. Their underlying architecture, not so much. - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/22/llms-evolve-quickly-their-underlying-architecture-not-so-much" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-08-31" tags="architecture, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}}