Floating point: Everything old is new again

In the early days of computing hardware (and actually before) mathematicians put a lot of effort into understanding and mitigating the limitations of floating point arithmetic. They would analyze mundane tasks such as adding a list of numbers and think carefully about the best way to carry out such tasks

Navigating bias in the AI era: A conversation with Dr. Clementine Collett

From gender stereotypes, to gravitating towards people like yourself, to overvaluing first impressions, humans undoubtedly have bias. These biases can have major impacts on hiring at your organization and hinder your ability to hire the right people with the right skills for the job.  To combat this, many companies have

How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs

Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel

A Deep Dive into Building Enterprise grade Generative AI Solutions

Read A Deep Dive into Building Enterprise grade Generative AI Solutions and learn AI with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more. Continue reading A Deep Dive into Building Enterprise grade Generative AI Solutions on SitePoint.

How hard is constraint programming?

I’ve been writing code for the Z3 SMT solver for several months now. Here are my findings. Python is used here as the base language. Python/Z3 feels like a two-layer programming model—declarative code for Z3, imperative code for Python. In this it seems reminiscent of C++/CUDA programming for NVIDIA GPUs—in

Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind


On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a

Celebrating 1 million practices completed on CodeSignal Learn

Today, we’re beyond excited to celebrate an incredible milestone: 1 million practice sessions completed on CodeSignal! Over just a few months, our dedicated community of learners have put in thousands of hours of work to sharpen their skills, build new skills, and advance their careers.  Earlier this year, we launched

How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old.

Ben welcomes Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare, and his eight-year-old daughter Fay for a chat about how AI tools are helping new developers get started and how to encourage your kids to try coding.

10 Essential Commands For Linux Superusers

Chris’ Corner: Interesting CSS Explanations

Let’s do CSS stuff this week. Why not — kinda my thing. Did you know Alvaro Montoro has a whole site of comics on the subject of CSS? There is a lot of satire in there, which I really enjoy. So they changed CSS nesting a bit. I heard that