Debugging My Life as an Engineering Manager With ADHD
Image generated using Stable DiffusionI was always a software engineer first and never planned (or wanted) to become a manager. Dealing with software seemed much easier than dealing with people. Working on hard technical problems felt natural, but dealing with emotional matters and nuances in communication always bothered me.However, when I
Read moreThe Overflow #188: Recognition for individual contributors
Welcome to ISSUE #188 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: real talk on hallucinations, the cultural implications of workplace hugs, and a spotlight on digital privacy. From the blog Improving time to first byte:
Read moreBehind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI (Ep. 594)
On today’s episode we chat with Ellen Brandenberger, our Director of Product Innovation, and Jody Bailey, our CTO, about the big changes Stack Overflow put in place to create OverflowAI and the research and thinking that went into the products and features we announced this week at WeAreDevelopers. Episode Notes
Read moreSolidity 0.8.21 Language Feature: Flexible Immutables
Image generated with Hotpot.aiIn the past, Solidity’s handling of immutable variables has been quite rigid. However, the game has changed with the arrival of Solidity 0.8.21. Immutable variables, while still unchangeable after a contract’s construction, now abide by a more flexible set of guidelines for their initialization and assignment. In
Read moreEvery Japanese prefecture shrinking
It’s well known that the population of Japan has been decreasing for years, and so I was a little puzzled by a recent headline saying that Japan’s population has dropped in every one of its 47 prefectures. Although the national population is in decline, until now not all of the
Read moreHow To Eliminate Boilerplate Code With PHP 8.1
Using the later versions of PHP can massively reduce the amount of boilerplate code in your applicationPhoto by Ben Griffiths on UnsplashIf you have an application of any appreciable size, you will have used DTO (Data Transfer Object) classes to shuttle data around your application.One of the main properties of a
Read moreExtract iMessage Data For Analytics and Conversational AI projects
Tens of thousands of real-world messages: cleaned and prepared using Python for all your creative ideasAI-generated art from MidjourneyIntroductionI like to experiment with APIs and build neat stuff. I have a lot of ideas for projects relating to iMessage data. Unfortunately, accessing this data is not well documented, the database schema
Read moreGame Development in Rust: Making a Strategy Game (Part 3 — Adding Different Unit Types)
Game Development in Rust: Making a Strategy Game (Part 3 — Adding Different Unit Types)In Part 2, we added our first unit and repurposed our codebase enough to keep adding more featuresPhoto by orva studio on UnsplashThis article is a direct continuation of the previous one. We will add a couple of different units for
Read moreReturn JSON from GPT
Return JSON From GPTGet properly formatted JSON in your responsePhoto by Pawel Czerwinski on UnsplashOpenAI recently announced updates to their API that now make it possible to get properly formatted JSON in your response.You can do a little “prompt engineering” and get stringified JSON by simply appending “provide your response in JSON format”
Read moreCreating a Zero-Allocation Environment in Go
Photo by Adi Goldstein on UnsplashAllocating dynamic memory is the thing everyone tries to avoid because it leads to performance degradation. Sometimes you can reorganize your logic to remove all the heap escapes from your code, but there are cases when it’s impossible to achieve such optimization. If that happens, you
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