Chris Corner: Git it
Julia Evans has released what she’s saying is one of her most popular zines to date: How Git Works. I don’t think you’d regret reading it. I imagine most of us get by with knowing just enough Git to do our jobs, but are probably using 5% of what it
Read moreThe world’s most popular web framework is going AI native
On today’s episode we chat with Jared Palmer, VP of AI at Vercel, who says the company has three key goals. First, support AI native web apps like ChatGPT and Claude. Second, use GenAI to make it easier to build. Third, provide an SDK so that developers have the tools
Read morePower method and centrality
A few days ago I wrote about eigenvector centrality, a way of computing which nodes in a network are most important. Rather than simply looking for the most highly connected nodes, it looks for nodes that are highly connected to nodes that are highly connected. It’s the idea behind Google’s
Read moreA peek behind the curtain with Stack Overflow’s sales engineers
In this episode, Alexa Montelibano and Tiago Torre, sales engineers at Stack Overflow, take you behind the scenes to show how customer feedback shapes our products, including OverflowAI. Alexa and Tiago have been working with clients to explore the three features of OverflowAI—Enhanced Search, an Auto-answer App for Slack and
Read moreLeveraging Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) for Enhanced Mobile User Engagement
Discover how Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) enhance mobile user engagement with features like offline access, push notifications, and more. Continue reading Leveraging Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) for Enhanced Mobile User Engagement on SitePoint.
Read moreThe search for the perfect prompt
Anyone with more than casual experience with ChatGPT knows that prompt engineering is a thing. Minor or even trivial changes in a chatbot prompt can have significant effects, sometimes even dramatic ones, on the output [1]. For simple requests it may not make much difference, but for detailed requests it
Read moreChris’ Corner: Let’s Look at Type!
Dan Mall has my favorite post on picking a typeface. I’m no master typographer, but I know enough that I don’t want to be talked to like an absolute beginner where you teach me what a serif is. Dan gets into more realistic decision making steps, like intentionally not picking
Read moreGenerative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code.
Read more10 Artificial Intelligence APIs for Developers
Discover the top 10 Artificial Intelligence APIs that help developers add intelligent features like speech recognition, image analysis, & more. Continue reading 10 Artificial Intelligence APIs for Developers on SitePoint.
Read moreEigenvector centrality
A basic question to ask about a network is which nodes are most important. A simple way of answering this question would be to say the most well-connected nodes, i.e. the nodes with the most edges. This approach is known as degree centrality. It’s not a bad place to start.
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