AI Systems: Bloated Backends and Tiny Hearts
A crumbly snowball made entirely of Dockerfiles, Python, and YAML (and a tiny shard of AI)To most people, Artificial Intelligence Systems look like they exist very much in isolation, and appear quite compact. You open your web browser and navigate to https://chat.openai.com/, for example, and there’s ChatGPT in your little rectangular
Read moreCreating a Joystick Control in SwiftUI
Photo by Andreas Haslinger on UnsplashIn this tutorial, we will create a joystick-like control using SwiftUI. The control consists of a larger circle that can be dragged around the screen at your desire and a smaller circle representing the joystick that can move only in the blue circle region. The smaller
Read moreHow to Center a Div Using CSS Grid
Learn five simple ways to horizontally and vertically center a div (or any other element) using CSS Grid, with fully interactive demos. Continue reading How to Center a Div Using CSS Grid on SitePoint.
Read moreThrowing away the script on testing (Ep. 583)
Syed Hamid, founder and CEO of no-code test automation platform Sofy, joins Ben and Ryan to talk about scriptless automation, why his platform targets mobile app developers, and what he learned in nearly two decades at Microsoft. Episode notes: Sofy is a no-code test automation platform for mobile apps. SofySense
Read moreMentally approximating factorials
Suppose you’d like to have a very rough idea how large n! is for, say, n less than 100. If you’re familiar with such things, your Pavlovian response to “factorial” and “approximation” is Stirling’s approximation. Although Stirling’s approximation is extremely useful—I probably use it every few weeks—it is not conducive
Read moreHow to use Angular Signals
Simplify Angular development with reactive propertiesContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreMore Than Just Stubs
Creating your stateful sandbox with WireMockPhoto by Markus Spiske on UnsplashWiremock is a great tool to test your application against a real web service with predefined stubs. It allows us to write integration tests that do not stop at a rest client mock but do network communication, simulating different responses with limited effort.But
Read moreDebugging Frontend Applications With React Profiler
Photo by Joshua Aragon on UnsplashUsually, writing console.log or custom code to trace the root of bugs in React applications can be sufficient. However, when one works with a more extensive unfamiliar codebase, even tiny bugs can become challenging to tackle.In this article, I would like to share my experience working with
Read moreBuilding Better dapps With Infura’s Polygon WebSocket
See how using WebSockets on Polygon provides a level of user experience on dapps that traditional HTTP API requests just can’t matchWeb3 dapps are often slow and clunky. But WebSockets on Ethereum L2s can help solve this problem by bringing real-time, bidirectional, client-server communications to the world of web3. Third-party offerings
Read moreTriton Inference Server Tips and Tricks
Things I wish I had known before playing around with TritonPhoto by Scott Rodgerson on UnsplashThis is the second article regarding Triton Inference Server. In the first one, I described features and use cases. If you missed it and don’t understand some of the concepts from this text, I encourage you to
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