Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help…
Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
An award-winning Twitter Client for iOS.
Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
The journey Buildkite took from sequential integer primary keys, through randomly generated UUIDs, to adopting time-ordered UUIDv7 — and the database index tradeoffs along the way.
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
Track ballast is the name for the crushed stones next to railway tracks. They are used by Railway Track Designers for numerous reasons
Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft’s AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages – all caused by one misconfigured SAS token
Cap'n Proto 1.0
It’s been a little over ten years since the first release of Cap’n Proto, on April 1, 2013. Today I’m releasing version 1.0 of Cap’n Proto’s C++ reference implementation.
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.
Automerge 2.0
Automerge 2.0 is here and ready for production.
$20k bounty was claimed
Prettier, a JavaScript code formatter, has seen an incredible adoption thanks to its careful handling of the very, very, long tail of ways people can write code. At this point, the formatting logic has been solid and after our work on ternaries lands, it will be in a happy state.
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor.
Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.
Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model
Instruction-following models such as GPT-3.5 (text-davinci-003), ChatGPT, Claude, and Bing Chat have become increasingly powerful. Many users now interact with these models regularly and even use them for work. However, despite their widespread deployment, instruction-following models still have many deficiencies…
Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Chromebooks are getting 10 years of automatic updates, plus new features to help devices last longer.
A Heisenbug lurking in async Python
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)
Insurance for your mind.
Google DeepMind
DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will join forces to accelerate progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity.
Your computer should say what you tell it to say
WEI? I’m a frayed knotTwo pieces of string walk into a bar.The first piece of string asks for a drink.The bartender says, “Get lost. We don’t serve pieces of string.”The second string ties a knot in his middle and messes up his ends. Then he orders a drink. The bartender says, “Hey, you aren’t a...
Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
Apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators.
Language models can explain neurons in language models
We use GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in large language models and to score those explanations. We release a dataset of these (imperfect) explanations and scores for every neuron in GPT-2.
Guide to running Llama 2 locally
How to run Llama 2 on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your phone.
Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…