Chris’ Corner: Fairly Fresh CSS

I joked while talking with Adam Argyle on ShopTalk the other day that there is more CSS in one of the demos we were looking at that I have in my whole CSS brain. We were looking at his Carousel Gallery which is one of the more impressive sets of

Chris’ Corner: 10 HTML Hits

Love HTML? Good. It’s very lovable. One of my favorite parts is how you can screw it all up and it still it’s absolute best to render how it thinks you meant. Not a lot of other languages like that. Are there any? English, I suppose lolz. Anyway — I

One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy.

Ryan talks with senior engineering manager Caitlin Weaver about how her childhood fascination with computers led to her leading CLEAR’s Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team, her experiences in DevOps, the role of empathy in engineering management, and how the platform engineering landscape is evolving.

How to use AI for better hiring—without losing the human touch

AI is reshaping just about every industry and job function today—and hiring is no exception. A recent survey found that 75% of hiring leaders trust AI to help with hiring decisions, and companies using AI-powered hiring tools report reducing time-to-hire by up to 50%. Still, many recruiters and talent leaders

Build a Python Network Speed Test App with PyQt (Step-by-Step)

Build a Python Password Generator App (Step-by-Step)

Build a Python Site Connectivity Checker App with PyQt (Step-by-Step)

Mnemonic images with Grok 3

The Major mnemonic system makes numbers easier to memorize by encoding them as words. Each digit corresponds to one or more consonant sounds, and you can fill in vowels as you wish. In August 2022 I tried creating a few images using DALL-E 2. The results were disappointing and sometimes

Standing with Intellectual Giants

  Is it possible to come up with truly innovative ideas when you’re not part of the institutions where the expertise resides? According to one study, the answer would seem to be “No.” The book, The Sociology of Philosophies by Randall Collins, makes a case for how great ideas through

Rich Sutton’s bitter lesson of AI

This morning I read Alberto Romeo’s article Grok 3: Another Win For The Bitter Lesson. I wasn’t clear on what exactly the bitter lesson was, so I followed the link to Romeo’s previous article GPT-4: The Bitterer Lesson, which lead to Rich Sutton’s original article The Bitter Lesson. Sutton opens