Chris’ Corner: Performance is Good for Brains

I was darn impressed by Scott Jehl’s personal charge to bring back an idea known as “responsive video”. If you’ve seen the <picture> element, and how you can provide multiple <source>s with different @media queries allowing for only the best match to be shown, you already get it. It turns

In Rust we trust? White House Office urges memory safety

Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security?

How to Use WebSockets in Node.js to Create Real-time Apps

Learn how to use WebSockets in Node.js for two-way, interactive communication between a browser and server for fast, real-time applications. Continue reading How to Use WebSockets in Node.js to Create Real-time Apps on SitePoint.

Archiving data on paper

This is a guest post by Ondřej Čertík. Ondřej formerly worked at Los Alamos National Labs and now works for GSI Technologies. He is known in the Python community for starting the SymPy project and in the Fortran community for starting LFortran. — John   I finally got to experiment

Best Node.js Framework Choices for Modern App Development

This article compares top Node.js frameworks for ease of use, scalability, and speed, to find your best fit without hassle. Continue reading Best Node.js Framework Choices for Modern App Development on SitePoint.

Emails moved to Substack

Until recently I used two email services: one to send out daily blog post announcements and another for monthly blog highlights. I’ve combined these into one Substack account for weekly blog highlights. Apparently readers really like this move. Daily and monthly email subscriptions flatlined some time ago, but Substack subscriptions

What’s the Best Code Editor?

Emacs, vi, TextEdit, nano, Sublime, Notepad, Wordpad, Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc., etc.—everyone’s got a favorite. I used Visual Studio previously and liked the integrated debugger. Recently I started using VS again and found the code editing windows rather cluttered. Thankfully you can tone this down, if you can locate the

It’s RAG time for LLMs that need a source of truth

On this episode: Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, joins Ben and Ryan to break down what retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is and why the concept is central to the AI conversation. This is part one of our conversation, so tune in next time for the thrilling conclusion.

Python Web Scraping Guide: Step-by-Step with Code [2024]

Defining socially responsible AI: How we select partners

Stack Overflow is on a journey to build a new era in the practice of AI: the era of social responsibility. All products based on models that consume public Stack Overflow data are required to provide attribution back to the highest relevance posts that influenced the summary given by the