Crafting Interactive Scatter Plots with Plotly
Plotly is a graphing library that makes it easy to create high-quality graphs online. Learn to use it to create interactive scatter plots. Continue reading Crafting Interactive Scatter Plots with Plotly on SitePoint.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Hard Things
Julia Evans has an extremely relatable and extremely charming talk in Making Hard Things Easy. Julia has a way of putting her finger on technology concepts that are notoriously difficult and making them easier to understand. She does this both by sharing her own tactics, like learning a reduced set
Read moreWill antitrust suits benefit developers?
Ben and Ryan talk about how tiny nations are making huge money from their domain names, the US government’s antitrust case against Apple, the implications of a four-day work week, Reddit’s IPO, and more.
Read moreProduct spotlight: CodeSignal Develop
We are living in exciting times, where technology is advancing faster than ever before. Recent innovations in generative AI are just the latest example of this. With each technological innovation comes the need for new technical skills, and the creation of new jobs specializing in those skills. For companies, this
Read moreA Bayesian approach to proving you’re human
I set up a GitHub account for a new employee this morning and spent a ridiculous amount of time proving that I’m human. The captcha was to listen to three audio clips at a time and say which one contains bird sounds. This is a really clever test, because humans
Read moreGenAI: How to Reduce Cost with Prompt Compression Techniques
Learn how using prompt compression techniques early in development helps reduce the ongoing operating costs of GenAI-based apps. Continue reading GenAI: How to Reduce Cost with Prompt Compression Techniques on SitePoint.
Read moreControlling cloud costs: Where to start, and where to go from there
In this episode, Ben and Ryan are joined by Joshua Fox, a senior cloud architect at DoIT, to discuss cloud cost optimization. They explore the importance of controlling and understanding cloud costs, the role of good architecture in cost optimization, and strategies for dealing with surprise costs.
Read moreAntenna length: Another rule of 72
The famous Rule of 72 says that to find out how many years it takes an investment to double in value, divide 72 by the annual percentage rate. I’ll come back to that in a little bit. This morning I read a really good article, Fifty Things you can do
Read moreCommunity products: Reflections & looking ahead
This past year, we’ve explored and learned how AI can support the community on Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. Read more to see our reflections and learn more about the initiatives our product team is prioritizing this year.
Read moreData, data everywhere and not a stop to think
Ben and Ryan are joined by Nick Heudecker, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Competitive Intelligence at Cribl, to discuss the state of data and analytics. They cover GenAI, the role of incumbents vs. startups, challenges of data storage and security, data quality and ETL pipelines, measures of data quality
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