Chris’ 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.
Read moreThis startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests
In this episode we chat with Saumil Patel, co-founder and CEO of Squire AI. The company uses an agentic workflow to automatically review your code, write your pull requests, and even review and provide opinions on other people’s PRs. Different AI systems with specific capabilities work together as a mixture
Read moreHow to learn data visualization to accelerate your career
Do you love clicking around interactive maps? Frustrated you can’t get your spreadsheet charts to match your vision? If you’re drawn to data and visual design, learning the fundamentals of data visualization could be a fruitful way to bring value to an employer—and grow your career. By becoming handy with
Read moreBreaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
Read moreFitting a line without an intercept term
The other day I was looking at how many lumens LED lights put put per watt. I found some data on Wikipedia, and as you might expect the relation between watts and lumens is basically linear, though not quite. If you were to do a linear regression on the data
Read moreIntroducing Staging Ground: The private space to get feedback on questions before they’re posted
Learn about the workflow designed to help new askers improve their questions on Stack Overflow.
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