A crowded little chess puzzle

Here’s a puzzle by Martin Garnder [1]. Can a queen, king, rook, bishop, and knight be placed on a 4² board so no piece attacks another? There are two solutions, plus symmetries. Note that in all non-attacking chess puzzles, the colors of the pieces are irrelevant. In the solutions I

Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI?

Maryam Ashoori, Head of Product for watsonx.ai at IBM, joins Ryan and Eira to talk about the complexity of enterprise AI, the role of governance, the AI skill gap among developers, how AI coding tools impact developer productivity, what chain-of-thought reasoning entails, and what observability and monitoring look like for

Chris’ Corner: CSS Deep Cuts

Sometimes we gotta get into the unglamorous parts of CSS. I mean *I* think they are pretty glamorous: new syntax, new ideas, new code doing foundational and important things. I just mean things that don’t demo terribly well. Nothing is flying across the screen, anyway. The Future of CSS: Construct <custom-ident> and <dashed-ident> values

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Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity

If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?

Formulating eight queens as a SAT problem

The Boolean satisfiability problem is to determine whether there is a way to assign values to variables in a set of Boolean formulas to make the formulas hold [1]. If there is a solution, the next task would be to enumerate the solutions. You can solve the famous eight queens