The Overflow #182: Self-healing code
Welcome to ISSUE #182 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: how to make sure the tools you buy get used, when math got imagination, and why a string pointer error grew to two billion
Read moreMulti-Language Support in VSCode Text Documents
VSCode does not allow setting several languages simultaneously for a single document.Extension authors can open a text document for a specific language:await vscode.workspace.openTextDocument({ language: 'mongodb', content });Or set the language for an existing text document:await vscode.languages.setTextDocumentLanguage(document, 'javascript');But there are many use cases when a document should contain several languages at
Read more8 Traits of The Best Teams I’ve Worked With
Cover Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on UnsplashThe best teams I’ve worked with are autonomous and extremely customer-focused. You can trust them to do the right thing because they know what the priorities are. Everyone feels empowered to interact with stakeholders to resolve issues and drive projects to success. The individuals
Read moreFrom Code to C-Suite: How to Present Your Engineering Progress Effectively
Photo by Product School on UnsplashIn the often hidden platform engineering world, articulating progress effectively, especially in long-term projects, is paramount. We suffer from the invisible unless it fails syndrome.The challenge, however, lies in translating complex, foundational technical achievements into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with C-Level stakeholders — those who may not
Read moreiOS 17 @Observable and the Observation Framework
New in WWDC 23, the new approach to observing changes simplifies SwiftUI and solves the nested observable object problem.WWDC 2023 introduced us to the new iOS-17@Observable property wrapper along with a cleaned-up @State that now supersedes the previous @State @ObservedObject, @StateObject. This is fantastic — it’s always been a source of confusion for
Read morePair programing? We peek under the hood of Duet, Google’s coding assistant. (Ep. 580)
On today’s episode, we chat with Marcos Grappeggia, the product manager for Duet, an AI-powered assistant that can help you craft code by suggesting snippets—even full functions—as you write. Grappeggia explains why he thinks tools like this will augment, but not replace, the human developers at work today. Episode notes:
Read moreBeyond ChatGPT: The role of AI and ML in assessment and selection
Defining AI and ML When you think about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), what comes to mind? If it’s ChatGPT, AI-generated art, and autonomous pizza delivery, you’re not alone. These are just a few of the most buzzworthy developments in AI and ML from the past few years–and
Read moreStart Your Stream Processing Journey With Just 4 Lines of Code
A decade ago, I stumbled upon an intriguing big data project called Stratosphere. What immediately captured my interest was a particular section in its introduction: the ability to initiate a cluster on a single machine and execute MapReduce-based WordCount computations with just 3 lines of code! During a time dominated
Read moreOptimizing Anki Flashcards with Prompt Engineering
I did some prompt engineering experiments to create better Anki flashcards using ChatGPT and GPT4Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read morePrompt Engineering: The Future of AI-Driven Development
AI won’t replace software developers. However, the required skills are going to change drasticallyContinue reading on Better Programming »
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