402: Bookmarks
Pins are dead! Long live bookmarks! Pins was never a good name for the feature we have on CodePen where you can mark a Pen or Collection to more quickly jump back to it from anywhere on the site. The word is too similar to “Pen” that it’s just awkward,
Read moreThe Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
So long and thanks for all the bits!
Read moreEvaluating and lowering AI hallucination cost
AI models hallucinate, and always will [1]. In some sense this is nothing new: everything has an error rate. But what is new is the nature of AI errors. The output of an AI is plausible by construction [2], and so errors can look reasonable even when they’re wrong. For
Read moreChris’ Corner: We Can Have Nice Things
It’s such a small, simple thing, but I’m very grateful that we’re getting “Gap Decorations” in CSS. Microsoft is working on “gap decorations” and have put together a nice playground to explore them, and I had a play. The idea is drawing lines where gaps would be, rather than empty space. It’s really quite well
Read moreWhite-Label Payment Gateway: Your Guide to Payment Solutions
White-label payment gateway guide: Unlock payment solutions with our white-label payment processing overview. Customize your payment gateway today! Continue reading White-Label Payment Gateway: Your Guide to Payment Solutions on SitePoint.
Read moreGo-to guide: Top Qualified.io alternatives for technical assessments
Technical hiring continues to shift as companies look for better ways to assess developer skills quickly and accurately. For example, a growing startup might begin with a basic platform for simple coding tests, but as their hiring volume increases, they may find it harder to scale or adjust assessments to
Read moreBuilding stronger engineering teams with aligned autonomy
Striking the balance between speed and strategy is a major challenge for business and tech leaders. That’s where aligned autonomy comes in.
Read moreA Continental Divide for Newton’s Method
Newton’s method is a simple and efficient method for finding the roots of equations, provided you start close enough to the root. But determining the set of starting points that converge to a given root, or converge at all, can be very complicated. In one case it is easy to
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