People over process done right
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools – the agile manifestoContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreEvery factorial is a power
The previous post mentioned that 24! ≈ 1024 and 25! ≈ 1025. For every n, there is some base b such that n! = bn. For example, 30! ≈ 1230. It’s easy to find b: What’s interesting is that b is very nearly a linear function of n. In hindsight
Read moreExploring a Juno’s Web3 Dapp Architecture
I built a web app on the Internet Computer blockchain in a weekend with Juno. Check out my insights into the frontend architecture! 🛰️Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreUltimate Guide to Incident Response Plans for Product Engineering Orgs [Free Template]
To improve or implement an incident response, look no furtherContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreRead from and Write to Amazon S3 in Polars
Image by Sixteen Miles Out on UnsplashHow do you work with Amazon S3 in Polars? Amazon S3 bucket is one of the most common object stores for data projects. Polars is a fairly new technology. There are only a few resources that explain how to work with S3.In this article, I’ll walk
Read moreThe Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not?
Welcome to ISSUE #183 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: The Developer Survey results are here, the advantages of public key cryptography over symmetric keys, and the reasons why AI won’t fix accessibility. From
Read moreDemystifying SQL Query Execution: Scan Types, IOs, Indexing
Photo by AltumCode on UnsplashWith increasingly stronger hardware, relational databases nowadays are usually stupid fast, even when drudging through millions of records, which might make one think that knowing the fine art of SQL Tuning is no longer needed. However, if you are building any non-trivial application with large data sets,
Read moreYouTube Chatbot using LangChain and OpenAI
Unlock the power to interact with YouTube videos from your command linehttps://medium.com/media/11286a6d5e9681199d073294b92e775d/hrefThese days creating a chatbot based on a YouTube video’s content is easy work. How cool is that! Just a few months ago, before the release of powerful LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it would have sounded impossible, or at least
Read moreAgile Retrospectives for Rigid People
Retros are boring, aren’t they? Probably because you are doing them wrong. Get the most out of them!Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreAI 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
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