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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Lessons Learned from the Book “Effective Remote Work”
Lessons Learned from the Book Effective Remote Work by James Stanier
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GCC 13 and the State of Gccrs
The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.
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Natural language is an unnatural interface
How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?
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The case for frameworks
I push back on Alex Russell's "Market for Lemons" post blaming JS frameworks and their advocates for poor mobile web performance. Developers aren't stupid or deceived: React dominates because of rational economics. Frameworks save developer time, enable hiring, and compound via ecosystems. Better frameworks, not fewer…
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Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable
About a month ago, I became hooked on mahjong, the ultimate game. It’s a bit late in my life to start, but that’s how it is. In the past, I might have thought, “Playing games like this would be ruinous, leading to personal downfall.” But now, as I’ve grown older, I’ve stopped worrying about these
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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)
A Special Edition of The Ruffian
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Announcing Masonry 0.1, and my vision for Rust UI
When I see the landscape of native GUI in 2022, I feel like something is missing.
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A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon
On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly…
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Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search
Dropbox is well known for storing users’ files—but it’s equally important we can retrieve content quickly when our users need it most. For the Retrieval Experiences team, that means building a search experience that is as fast, simple, and powerful as possible. But when we conducted a research study in July 2022, one…
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PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 16 is now [available for download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/). This …
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Cloudflare is now powering Microsoft Edge Secure Network
This integration will allow Microsoft Edge users who opt in to browse the Internet more privately, without being tracked across websites
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YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB
2023-12-27—Ars Technica: YOYOZO wins GOTY accolade! almost unbelievable to be listed alongside such games as: Chants of Sennaar, Cocoon, Dave the Diver, Hu...
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Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)
<p>A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite your application from scratch, or is that “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”? Turns out there are more than two options for dealing with a mature codebase.</p>
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Double Descent in Human Learning
The uncanny resemblance between double descent and a 50 year old theory from psychology
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Prisma laying off 28% staff
Restructuring Prisma
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Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
The new normal in tech recruiting
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Why you might want async in your project
There is a common sentiment I’ve seen over and over in the Rust community that I think is ignorant at best and harmful at worst.
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Don't use Tailwind for a design system (2021)
My opinion about why isn't a great idea to use tailwind for your design system
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1 in 6 retirees are considering returning to work, and 53% want remote positions
In the last few years, the pandemic and inflation in the U.S. have upended peoples’ lives in different levels making young people adjust their retirement goals.
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Gallery of Processor Cache Effects
Most of my readers will understand that cache is a fast but small type of memory that stores recently accessed memory locations. This description is
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Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI
Less-experienced contact center agents become more productive with assistance from generative artificial intelligence, a new study finds.
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Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)
Read this list unless you want to build a money disappearing system
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Node.js 20 is now available
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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France's largest semiconductor company got nationalized in plain sight (2022)
A power struggle was actually China encroaching on France's Largest Company. France decided to nationalize instead.
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A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will improve your perception of AMD products and…
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