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How to Do a TypeScript Conversion
Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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Building a ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL
In this blog I share my experience in building a Python REPL augmented with ChatGPT. I explore how the application is built, and speculate on software engineering patterns and paradigms that might emerge in systems built on Large Language Models (LLMs). GEPL - Generate, Evaluate, Print, Loop Link to this section…
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Writing a chat application in Django 4.2 using async StreamingHttpResponse
StreamingHttpResponse now supports async iterators when Django is served via ASGI.
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Fuzz testing: the best thing to happen to our application tests
Fuzz tests have helped us catch many critical bugs. Should your team consider fuzz testing? They're the best thing to happen to our application tests so far.
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Visual programming with Elixir: Learning to write binary parsers (2019)
Visualize binary protocols by building parsers in Elixir.
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Let's create a Python Debugger together
An article series where I show you how to write a fully functional Python debugger.
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Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos
An overview of new features in pgvector 0.5.0, including HNSW, parallel index builds, and more!
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Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code. This is problem space that many talented people are tackling.
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Iterators in Go: A proposed extension
Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
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TypeScript NPM Packages Done Right
Learn how to make your TypeScript npm packages accessible and usable by a wider audience in our easy-to-follow tutorial.
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I don't understand terminals, shells and SSH
Confession time: I don't fully understand how terminals, shells and SSH really work (and my guess is you don't either). And I don't mean the cryptography behind SSH. I mean how SSH and the terminal — and the shell for that matter — interact with one another.
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An interactive explanation of quadtrees (2014)
The space is divided into four rectangles . Each of those rectangles is divided such that it contains a maximum of four children . Each child is either a point or a smaller rectangle.
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Flake8-Logging
The Python standard library’s logging module is a go-to for adding observability to applications. Many tools also integrated with it or enhance its capabilities, such as structlog and Sentry.
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PyTorch at the Edge: Deploy 964 TIMM Models on Android with TorchScript
Learn and deploy over 900+ cutting edge PyTorch classification models on Android.
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JEP 457: Class-File API for Parsing, generating, transforming Java classfiles
Provide a standard API for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files. This is a preview API .
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Constraint Programming (2020)
A brief introduction tutorial to Constraint Programming with Python, we introduce some relevant definitions and solve our old Pokémon Centers and Pokémon Gyms problem this time with CP!
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Shipping Graphing Calculator
I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited. But the project encounters reality, shifting priorities, or budgeting constraints, and the work never goes anywhere. It always feels tragic, but then I move on. But what if I didn't let a project…
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Wolf Incident Postmortem
Incident #210 Status Complete, one action item outstanding. Summary Sentinel consumed by wolf after repeated false alarms. Impact Loss of sentinel. No flock impact. Root causes Sentinel generated noisy alerts due to premature deployment, incomplete training, and overly monotonous task. Oncalls failed to respond to…
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Ash: A Gentle Primer
An introduction to Ash Framework, written for new Elixir developers. Comes with LiveBooks for interactive examples, live-coding video walkthrough, and illustrations.
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Training and aligning LLMs with RLHF and RLHF alternatives
I frequently reference a process called Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) when discussing LLMs, whether in the research news or tutorials.
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Why Rust helps even if you have to use a lot of `unsafe`
I semi-regularly hear developers who claim that using Rust would not gain them anything because they would have to use `unsafe`. But this is not true. Local reasoning matters.
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Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation
Explore resources and tools created to inspire creativity, perform deep learning, and equip your company with Voice AI best practices.
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High level mods/patches for console video games
This blogpost explores my journey of bringing higher level languages (in this case C) to console video-game modding, as an alternative to hand-tailored assembly mods.
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This Week in Rust 499
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust ! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us…
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CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (2013)
It has been 2 years since I published “CamelCase vs underscores: Scientific showdown”, and it still is easily the most visited article on this blog. Yesterday alone it got 2,614 views t…
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X servers no longer allow byte-swapped clients
In the beginning, there was the egg. Then fictional people started eating that from different ends, and the terms of "little endians" an...
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What's new in C# 12: overview
It′s mid-fall which means a new version of C# is coming soon. It′s time to find out what updates will soon appear in the language. Although C#12 has fewer features than previous versions, it still...